As Atletico Madrid travels to Feyenoord Rotterdam this Tuesday evening, Antoine Griezmann is on the verge of becoming a little more legendary at the Madrid club.
Atletico Madrid is playing big this Tuesday evening. Because if the Colchoneros, still undefeated this season in the Champions League, are at the top of Group E with eight points on the clock, they are only one step ahead of Lazio Rome and two ahead of Feyenoord Rotterdam. A defeat at the Dutch club would put them in an uncomfortable position and force them to beat Lazio Rome in a fortnight.
A defeat would be all the more unwelcome for the Madrilenians as Diego Simeone will celebrate his 100th in the Netherlandse match in the Champions League at the head of the Colchoneros. Another figure of this Atletico Madrid is also preparing to enter the legend of the club: again a scorer this weekend, Antoine Griezmann has in fact moved a little closer to the goals record of the best director in the history of the Rojiblancos.
Three goals short of the record…
With 170 goals on the clock with Atletico Madrid, the world champion is only three lengths from the historic mark set by Luis Aragones, author of 173 goals with the Colchoneros. Since the start of the season, the Frenchman has already scored 13 times and notably scored a hat-trick against Celtic on the previous day. What to do with it, depending on Marca, “the best player in the world”as journalist Roberto Gomez asserts.
His teammates are barely less enthusiastic. “ Antoine Griezmann is a living legend of Atlético de Madrid and he will overtake Luis Aragonés. We’re happy to have him on the pitch and we hope he stays as fresh as possible, but he continues to score, and that’s important.”, confided Koke this weekend. Words to which Diego Simeone fully subscribes. “ I’m lucky to have a player like Griezmann. There is no doubt that he will be one of the best players in the club’s history. “, he recently said.
