On August 18, Spanish time, Granada sat at home to face Leganes!

Leganés has not been doing well in La Liga since the 2015-2016 season when they were promoted to La Liga as runners-up in La Liga.

In his first season in La Liga, he finished 17th and almost fell into the relegation zone back to La Liga. Last season, Leganés beat Barcelona at the start of the season in an upset, but that didn't change the fact that they were an underdog, and they ended up staying in La Liga as 13th in the league.

It is worth mentioning that four days before the start of this game, that is, on August 14, Kenneth Omero, the longest-serving player in the Premier League giants Chelsea, officially joined Leganes in La Liga!

During his seven years with the Blues, Goalo never featured in the first team and the 25-year-old is a Nigeria international who plays as a defender.

He joined Chelsea from Standard Liège in 2012 but never made a first-team appearance and was loaned to the Netherlands, Turkey and Spain. Omeruo has impressed the team with Leganés over the past year, making 31 appearances in La Liga, before Leganés eventually paid £4.6 million to sign him on a permanent basis.

Omeruo has made 50 appearances for Nigeria at the 2014 and 2018 World Cups, and such an international is just one of a 'taxi' who has missed out on the Blues' first team.

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In the dressing room of the home team at the Carmenez Stadium, the players of Granada are preparing for the game.

Compared to last season, there are many unfamiliar faces in the dressing room this season, including international superstars such as Ibrahimovic and Kompany, as well as talented youngsters like Vinicius and Clark, and half of the squad that was promoted last season has been replaced!

However, Granada has been training in Portugal for two weeks and have played friendly matches against Sporting de Portugal, Sindakara and Viseu in the past two weeks, so the players are already familiar with their teammates, although they cannot be said to be cooperative.

The warm-up matches also helped coach Martinez get to know his players better, and then arrange the game formation for next season according to the characteristics of the players.

"Guys! Welcome to La Liga! ”

According to the convention, the head coach Martinez has to say something to the players before the game, so when Martinez clapped his hands and stood up, the eyes of all the players in the dressing room turned to him, including stars such as Ibrahimovic, Kompany, Vinicius, because in the locker room, the head coach enjoys absolute authority, no matter how strong and famous you are, you have to obediently obey the manager's arrangement, which is related to the professionalism of a player!

However, there are exceptions to everything, in addition to Ibrahimovic in the Granada team, another star Kompany is not a good-natured master, and he also has a criminal record!

In 2015, after Manchester City lost 1-2 to Barcelona and Liverpool, the core of Manchester City's defense Kompany was abandoned in the Leicester City game, and most people deduced that Kompany's loss of the main position was purely a sharp decline in form, however, things are not so simple.

According to the British "Daily Mirror", during the halftime break of the Manchester City and Liverpool game, Kompany, as the leader of the first team, had a fierce quarrel with his teammate Fernandinho and even the whole team, and the scene was extremely unbearable, which was the real reason why Kompany was sent to the bench.

Kompany was extremely emotional throughout the altercation and almost completely lost control in the end, with Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini's mediation not making the slightest difference.

It is worth mentioning that when Manchester City played Leicester three days later, Kompany disappeared from the starting line-up, and Fernandinho was not included in the team at all.

The Daily Mirror has restored some of the details of the altercation: Fernandinho believed that City's first-half goal was the result of a fatal mistake by Vincent Kompany, and at half-time, the Brazilian publicly criticised Kompany's sluggish performance and warned him to "be vigilant" in the second half.

However, Kompany was extremely unhappy with Fernandinho's tone, believing that the Brazilian midfielder was not qualified to 'call the shots' to him.

The two then quarreled and intensified, and seeing that the situation was about to get out of hand, Pellegrini finally intervened, but he did not side with his captain and sided with Fernandinho.

Peshuai advised Kompany to be open-minded because Fernandinho was a "kind reminder" that everything was "to make the team better".

However, Pei Shuai's reconciliation did not play a role in resolving the contradictions, but provoked an even stronger reaction from Kompany.

According to City's internal sources, Kompany began bombarding the team and responded with fiery rhetoric to everyone who tried to challenge his authority.

Due to Kompany's usual mild-mannered and humble temperament, the sudden gaffe of the day surprised everyone at the scene.

However, now that Kompany has just joined the team, he is naturally keeping to himself, but this also puts Martinez under a lot of pressure.

It's not easy to bring a player who is too big!

By the way, while Ibrahimovic was captaining Granada, Kompany was also vice-captain of Granada along with Vuray.

"We came to La Liga last season as the champions of La Liga, and although the heroes who helped the team to be promoted have gone a lot, we have also welcomed new quality players!"

"Today's home game against Leganés is our first game since landing in La Liga! According to the information I just received, the 19,336 seats at the Carmenez Stadium are full! ”

"The veteran players who have played in La Liga know that we had an average of seats per game last season, and I know that some of you have seen a lot bigger than this, the 81,000-strong Bernabeu, the 55,000-man Manchester City Stadium, the 75,000-strong San Rossi and even the Shanghai Stadium can accommodate more than 50,000 people, maybe it seems to you that it's a small fight, but for Granada, it's a battle of honor!"

"All the fans who support Granada are in the stadium to support us, and you are playing in Granada, you are supporting us!"

"Leganes has never been a strong team in La Liga, 13th in La Liga last season, and 17th last season, and is almost about to meet us in La Liga! They were just a little more lucky not to be relegated, and this game, we have to win it at all costs! ”

"Not only to take them down, but also to play with our momentum!".

"Just use Leganes' corpse and tell all the teams in La Liga!"

"Granada, here!"