Granada CF vs Mallorca preview - Fabri - It`s all about safety

Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2011 by PA

Granada coach Fabri insists his side are thinking solely of survival despite aiming to make it five matches unbeaten when they face Mallorca in a rearranged match on Wednesday.

The Andalucian side are just 30 minutes away from recording their fifth victory of the season in La Liga against Mallorca, with the original match on November 20 abandoned after 60 minutes when a linesman was accidentally struck by an umbrella.

Mallorca had taken the lead through Victor Casadesus but Granada, who started the game second from bottom, fought back to take the lead with goals from Guilherme Siqueira and Carlos Martins.

Those strikes are not yet included in Granada's goal tally of six, which is the lowest in the Primera Division but has still been enough to earn them 15 points to date.

Mallorca are two places and one point behind Granada in 14th, and a win for Fabri's men would lift them above Espanyol into the top half of the table.

Despite that, he is concentrating only on consolidating their place in the top flight.

"We have to be humble and keep our feet on the ground," Fabri told marca.com.

"We cannot look up (the table) because we are only three points above the bottom three and you have to think only of surviving in this division."

Martins will be out for two to three weeks after he suffered a hamstring strain in the 1-0 win over Real Zaragoza at Los Carmenes on Sunday.

Kevin Garcia returned to training for Mallorca on Monday for the first time since undergoing surgery for a thigh injury in October. He is not expected to return to action until January at the earliest however.