Antoine Griezmann not only took Piqué's anger during the game in which Barcelona beat PSG (1-4) in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16. At the end of the meeting, and with Barça fans in full swing, the Frenchman was one of the targets on social media for a controversial trip that it would not have had the slightest importance with another result. In various evening gatherings, more than one journalist also criticized this gesture, understanding that it was not the time to ignore what had happened.
The image of the team in the eyes of the whole world made an anecdote gain weight. As soon as the game is over, Griezmann quickly headed to El Prat airport, leaving his teammates and the hero Mbappé at the Camp Nou, who was one of the last to leave the stadium taking a mass bath with the hat-trick ball always in hand. Koeman has given the Barça squad two days of vacation to rest for next Sunday's match against Cádiz (2:00 p.m.) and the former Atlético striker has decided to take advantage of the permit and spend them outside Barcelona.
The first reproaches to the forward came for having the privilege of being able to move around Barcelona at will, when the rest of the population was adjusting to the curfew in the city (22:00) due to the coronavirus pandemic. And his decision to fly to France to see his family was not very supported, a destination that the journalist Helena Condis revealed in The Partidazo by Cope. Griezmann, who was hunted by several television cameras, got out of the car that took him to the airport with a very serious gesture, put on a new mask to comply with sanitary measures and got into El Prat to start his trip. The only statement he made to journalists who asked him where he was going was: “What do you care about?”
Before his displacement, Griezmann He went through the microphones of the Movistar Liga de Campeones to analyze the match.
The French said about the meeting: “We tried but they were superior and there is little more to add. It is not the image we want to give, of course. You have to work and try until the last second. It was not a good game. You have to work and improve. We will go out there to win. We know it is complicated, but we will not visit Paris on the return trip. As I said, with these teams you have to play a perfect game and we did not do it today. There was a moment when we were better; then they were. But it's true that we don't like it and it's hard for them to make four of you at home, so let's see what happens in the second leg in Paris. “