Villarreal vs Granada Betting Tips

The Yellow Submarine is certainly look good to join the European elite once more. They have though been a little short of their best over the past few weeks. They exited the Copa Del Rey at the hands of Athletic Bilbao and have drawn both league games since then at home to Real Betis and away to Espanyol.

Their overall record at El Madrigal this season has been excellent though. They have won 9 of their last 12 home league games, losing just once and 12 of their 16 at home in all competitions this season.

Granada aren’t really the sort of side who you could see threatening that record. They have lost all of their last 4 away games, conceding 4 or more goals in each of them. Their 5-1 defeat at Eibar in their last game on the road really set the alarm bells ringing and even though they were 3-2 winners against Getafe at home last time out, there were still plenty of signs of defensive weakness.

Villarreal have plenty of attacking quality and are well capable of exposing those problems so consider backing the hosts with a -1.0 Asian Handicap at 1.750 here.

Granada will probably come with a cautious mentality given their recent horror-shows on the road and look to put men behind the ball so perhaps a 2-0 home win is more likely than anything heavier and Villarreal rarely score more than 2 goals in any case. A 2-0 Villarreal victory can be backed at 5/1.