March 24, Spanish Serie B.

In this round, Granada will visit the El Sardar Stadium and challenge Osasuna away!

In the league standings, Granada ranks first with 58 points from 30 rounds, 17 wins, 7 draws and 6 losses, while Osasuna has 55 points from 30 rounds, 15 wins, 10 draws and 5 losses, 3 points behind Granada and ranks second.

This game will be a "six-point game"!

Granada is 811 kilometres from Pamplona, where Osasuna is located, and coach Martinez arrived early with his players at the hotel where they were staying two days earlier.

The game will take place at five o'clock this afternoon, so there was no training this morning, the players were relaxing in the hotel, and then it was just a matter of listening to Martinez and the coaches to motivate and motivate the players.

There was also a light rain in Pamplona today.

After Wu Lei came to Granada, he scored four goals and three assists in six games, basically sitting in the main position.

At the noon meeting, Martinez announced the starting line-up.

Although the players basically already know who will start the game, the final dust will have to wait for the manager to say it himself.

Not surprisingly, Vuray was put into the starting line-up by Martinez, and he is now more and more comfortable with the players he brought in by the club over the winter window! Due to the injury of the veteran Martina in this game, Wu Lei was placed in the position of shadow striker!

For this, when Wu Lei was training in the team some time ago, he also served as a shadow striker.

After the starting list was announced, the players left the conference room one by one, some of them going to take a nap and chatting with their teammates. As long as you don't leave the hotel before the game, basically no one will take care of you.

This is an important match in La Liga, and from the first night when the Granada coaches and players entered the hotel, many Osasuna fans ran to the hotel where Granada was staying.

Since two o'clock in the morning, firecrackers have sounded outside the hotel, not to mention the loud sound, but also very regular, basically every 10 minutes.

Fortunately, Martinez called the police in time to drive away these crazy fans!

Although such an "off-the-board move" is not worth encouraging, it is not uncommon for the away team to be treated like this in football!

In some club matches in European football, there are often "accidental" problems with the facilities used by the visiting team, or the hot water is half-washed, and it is not uncommon for the night before the game to be disrupted.

The "home and away" bench design of the Premier League Leicester City's home stadium at King Power Stadium really allows the home team to enjoy the advantage.

At the King Power Stadium, the length and size of the visitors' benches are nearly half smaller than those of the home team, and the spacing between seats is significantly narrower. In such a situation, it is obviously difficult for the away team's substitutes to stretch their bodies when watching the game, and once they are called up on the pitch, it may be difficult to guarantee their form.

Premier League teams are also good at doing turf articles. There is a Liverpool home game against Leicester City.

The game coincided with heavy snow, and Liverpool's staff took advantage of the half-time break to clear the snow that was about to attack the half in the second half, but left the other half untouched. As a result, Liverpool only managed to get a draw, and this caution was ridiculed by netizens.

According to the Argentine sports newspaper "As", a series of loud noises shook the hotels of Argentine players in the early morning of the Copa America match between Argentina and Brazil.

The ringing occurs every 20 minutes until around 2:30 a.m. In addition, supporters of the Brazilian team lit fireworks. And the most surprising thing was that at 6 o'clock in the morning, the phones in the rooms of the Argentine players rang in unison.

"If someone asks for a wake-up call, of course the phone rings, but the problem is that no one in the whole team has ever made such a request."

According to the Argentine news site "TN", these are the usual tactics used by Brazilians to disturb their rivals. According to the newspaper As, the players did not sleep much all night, Argentina was defeated, and these Brazilian fans made a meritorious service.

In the long history of "off-the-board moves" on the football field, there are also many examples of self-defeating.

In the 2017-2018 season, Southampton travelled to Swansea City in a direct confrontation between Premier League relegation teams.

As a result, the Southampton team found out the day before the game that the hotel that had been booked only 4km from the match stadium had been cancelled, and the reason given by the hotel was "a virus invasion". In such circumstances, Southampton had to temporarily change the hotel further away from the stadium.

However, this episode only inspired the fighting spirit of the "Saints", and in the end they won 1-0 away from home, not only successfully relegated themselves, but also sent their opponents to the Championship.

Compared with "off-the-board moves", strength crushing seems to be more effective.

In the 2015-2016 season, Sweden's Malmo team met Real Madrid in the Champions League.

The Swedes temporarily reduced the width of their home stadium from 70 metres to 68 metres below the standard limit. According to the Spanish newspaper Marca, this is all about limiting Real Madrid's wide attack. However, this still could not stop Real Madrid from taking the three points away from home 2-0.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the players began to gather in the hotel lobby one after another.

The fans who followed Granada were also waiting outside the hotel, and when they saw the Granada players, they all cheered!

Once everyone had arrived, they boarded the bus and headed to the El Sardar Stadium.

Osasuna's away dressing room was not good, but it was not designed to be disgusting, so at the urging of assistant coach Mainz, the players quickly changed their equipment and went to the stadium to start the pre-match warm-up.

And at this time, the managers of both sides got the starting list on the opposite side.

Osasuna's head coach Alassat has been an Academy coach and assistant coach at Real Sociedad and has managed the first team from 2013 to 2014.

Alassat was appointed as Numancia coach on 12 June 2015 and he led the team to sixth place in the La Liga table this season.

With Alasate's help, Numancia reached the final of this season's La Liga promotion play-offs, where they lost to Zaragoza.

After Osasuna were relegated from La Liga in 2017, they fired Osasuna coach Vasilevich, who played twice in his playing days, and brought in Alassat from Numancia.

This season, Granada as Osasuna's biggest championship rival, Alassat discussed the players of this team in detail with the coaching staff before the game, including Vico, Pozo, Ramos on the front line, and goalkeeper Silva performed well, and the Chinese player Wu Lei, who they transferred to join in the winter window, has played extremely well in the past six games.

I have to say that Granada's strength has grown by leaps and bounds after the injection of capital from China! It's really ...

Enviable!

Compared with the direct rival Granada, Osasuna's lineup on paper is much worse, and the club's finances are not too rich, the board of directors gave a transfer budget of less than 3 million in the winter window, as far as Alassat knows, Granada spent almost 3 million euros just to introduce a Wure, and this fee is not included in the transfer fee for Martinez in the winter window!

Hey! The more I think about it, the more angry I get!