Granada 0-4 Real Madrid: Morata and James at the double as Real seal victory

Real Madrid continued to keep the pressure on Barcelona with a commanding 4-0 victory over Tony Adams’ beleaguered Granada side on Saturday night.

James Rodriguez and Alvaro Morata both picked up two goals apiece as Real comfortably saw out a 4-0 victory against the hosts, who went into the match having already been relegated from the La Liga.

The result means that Real are now level on points with Barcelona, who beat Villareal 4-1 earlier on Saturday, although Los Blancos do have a game in hand.

James Rodriguez was on the receiving end of lots of praise after a fine performance, with Twitter quick to show its appreciation for the Colombian superstar.

James Rodriguez’s first half by numbers vs. Granada:

95% pass accuracy
43 passes
2 crosses
2 shots
2 goals

Easy peasy. pic.twitter.com/Wij9zZ13eS

— Squawka Football (@Squawka) May 6, 2017

11 goals.
12 assists.

James Rodriguez ???? pic.twitter.com/DSfuRVzX0L

— Toni Kroos (@Kroosinfo) May 6, 2017

Messi leads all La Liga midfielders in goal contributions in all comps this season with 72.

Next highest is James Rodriguez with 23.

— Juan (@Fraudiesta) May 6, 2017

James Rodriguez upping his game after being linked with United, hoping to impress Jose. It’ll never happen in my view.

— Hesham Bilal-Hafiz (@hesham786) May 6, 2017

James Rodriguez has been the victim of a coordinated propaganda campaign and whatever team that gets him will get a peach of a player

— Nando (@nandorvila) May 6, 2017

Alvaro Morata was similarly praised after a fine performance up front for Los Blancos.

Morata’s second goal against Granada pic.twitter.com/XtnxdTtBJw

— Rey (@RMadrid_Rey) May 6, 2017

Alvaro Morata has now scored as many league goals (15) in 24 games for Real Madrid this season as he did in 63 games for Juventus.

? pic.twitter.com/fBpxmQZ1Vv

— Squawka Football (@Squawka) May 6, 2017

Álvaro Morata has 19 goals from 17 starts this season. Far too good of a player to just be sitting on the bench. Calm finisher.

— Liam Canning (@LiamPaulCanning) May 6, 2017

zidane: cross the road and i’ll start morata in the second leg vs atletico
me: pic.twitter.com/yZ10RKtxUF

— lou (@jakegyIlenheIl) May 6, 2017

In #LaLiga this season:

Karim Benzema = 9 goals

Alvaro Morata = 15 goals

The first is a starter and the second barely plays ?? pic.twitter.com/IklGzDd2MJ

— OMAR ? (@Omar__cr7_) May 6, 2017

Morata… what a player!

— Matt Craig (@MattHDGamer) May 6, 2017

Morata played less minutes than Benzema & he’s already Real Madrid 2nd top scorer behind Ronaldo, enough said.

— ⓫Abdallah M.⓫ (@Abdallah_rm11) May 6, 2017

If we can keep this team
And by team I mean
-James & Morata
Sell Benzema and Fabio

Next season everything is coming to santiago

— Soldier ↪ (@PatohShanqueels) May 6, 2017

Madrid’s fringe players were given the recognition they deserved – particularly Lucas Vazquez who stood out on Saturday night.

Imagine Dembele/Asensio/Vazquez/Morata/Mbappe. At least 3 will be world class in 2 years.

— Jimmy Conway (@kofi_klu) May 6, 2017

Morata, Kovacic,Asensio,James & Vazquez are being wasted at Real Madrid. Premier League clubs should be queueing up to take them this summer

— Premier League Panel (@PremLeaguePanel) May 6, 2017

Lucas Vazquez, Asensio, Morata & James work very well together. They may be labelled Real Madrid ‘B’ but their contributions are A+.

— ZIZOU (@RMadridCastilla) May 6, 2017

James, Vazquez, Asensio, Morata and Kovacic. This will be a good day

— Mayada (@SaveItLikeNavas) May 6, 2017

Great first half performance from Lucas Vazquez. Giving masterclass Like a boss. pic.twitter.com/c1yPZwNPn4

— KroosT8 (@KroosT8) May 6, 2017

Such scintillating play. And this Lucas Vazquez reminds me heavily of Jesse Lingard. Similar qualities and work-rate!

— Arvinth Shriram (@Arvi_nth) May 7, 2017

Imagine your second string front 4 being Asensio Rodriguez Lucas/Isco Morata. Real Madrid are the best team in the world, hands down

— Adil (@adil786123) May 6, 2017

kovacic needs to start ahead of modric

— M (@Rasad316) May 6, 2017

KOVACIC SO GOOD

— Zeus (@KeylorinhoZ) May 6, 2017

Kovacic turns 23 today. Already done quite a lot …

— Dermot Corrigan (@dermotmcorrigan) May 6, 2017

Today’s lineup is decent
-Lucas
-James
-Asensio
-Morata
-Danilo
-kovavic

All starting
But i would have loved some marcelo in there too

— Soldier ↪ (@PatohShanqueels) May 6, 2017

Danilo 0 bad games since that own goal against Celta.

— Rk (@RahatRMCF) May 6, 2017