While the Barça de Jules Koundé celebrates the title of champion of Spain, that Kylian Mbappé ensures his first place in the classification of Liga scorers with a 28th goal for Real Madrid, and that the Athletic Bilbao celebrates its qualification in the Champions League, the Atlético d'Antoine Griezmann continues to sink. The Colchoneros season has turned into a nightmare in recent months, with eliminations in the Champions League and King Cup and a bad pass in the unworthy championship of such a powerful club.
Griezmann has largely contributed to the fall in the training of Diego Simeone. After a few inspirations of genius, such as his magical goal against Valladolid, “Grizi” achieves a terrible second part of the season. He only scored one goal on the last 19 games and only gave only a decisive pass in 15 games! His counter displays 16 goals and 8 assists in 51 matches in all competitions, but it is largely insufficient as he has abandoned his team since the start of winter.
Logically relegated to the bench by “El Cholo” for this disappointing end of the season, Griezmann was launched in the 63rd minute by his Argentinian mentor on the field of the Osasuna, Thursday evening on behalf of the 36th day. The Pamplona club had opened the scoring in the first period and “Grizi” replaced Julian Alvarez, which rushed to Madrid supporters. Half an hour later, they came across the transparent Griezmann. Especially since the 34 -year -old missed his head at the start of the action leading to the second opposing goal signed Ante Budimir with the head (82nd).
Griezmann at the origin of the 2nd goal of the Osasuna
On the radio Onda Cero, the commentator Antonio Sanz pointed to the loss of Griezmann's ball: “Osasuna's second goal came from a long Boyomo ball while Griezmann had played a ball without intensity. From there, the race on the wing was good and Budimir beat the central defender of the head ”. Flavien Boyomo, 23, is the Cameroonian international central defender of Osasuna. A native of Toulouse, he went to young people in Violets but continued his training in Blackburn before starting with the pros in Spain.
Completely exceeded by events on the ground, and this since the start of the season, Antoine Griezmann has been very far from justifying his status as a legend of the club as well as his salary XXL (8 million euros annually). The 2018 world champion decided to stay at Atlético until the end of his contract next year, even if it means taking over a role of luxury joker among the Colchoneros rather than joining this summer the MLS. At this rate, Simeone will recruit a new offensive crack and relegate “Grizi” to the end of the sidelines.
