Granada Surprises in Compeeting at the Top of the 2019-20 LaLiga Standings

DBasia.news –  The 2019-20 LaLiga promotion team, Granada, has continued to surprise this season with their consistency (up to week seven) fighting in the top standings.

The condition is compounded by Granada’s perfunctory squad. Only Maxime Gonalons and Roberto Soldado who had enough names in the European arena.

Even in their squad, there were only two names that defend the national team. The two players are from Venezuela, Darwin Machis and Yangel Herrera.

Granada also does not have a coach with a flashy name. Diego Martinez who has coached them only has experience as an assistant coach before caring for Osasuna in 2017-2018.

However, now they are surprisingly at the top of the 2019-2020 LaLiga standings. Granada is ranked second, behind Real Madrid.

That’s right, you’re not reading it wrong. Granada only lost to Real Madrid in winning points, the same as Atletico Madrid, and has beaten Barcelona.

Remarkably, Barcelona has become a victim of Granada’s violence. Ernesto Valverde’s squad defeated two goals without reply when they traveled to Los Carmenes Stadium.

Of course the success of Granada in occupying the top of the standings while LaLiga became an anomaly. As in the midst of modern football that deifies expensive players, they were able to succeed with a perfunctory squad.

According to Transfermarkt, the total value of all Granada players are only 33.5 million euros. The amount is the lowest in LaLiga and is 10 million euros with Osasuna in it.

The combination of the three most expensive players of Granada even only reached 10 million euros. Maxime Gonalons has a value of 4 million euros, while Darwin Macis and Domingos Duarte each has 3 million euros.

When totaled, the value of all Granada players has not even reached 10 percent of the squad for Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona. In fact all three have many players whose values are above the entire total squad.

At Real Madrid, there are 16 players who are more expensive than the entire Granada squad. Meanwhile, at Atletico Madrid there are 11 players and Barcelona has 15 players.

Indeed, the season is still ahead and anything can happen. However, Granada underwent the best start of the season in history at LaLiga and doing so with a rudimentary squad that deserves appreciation.