Griezmann: quadriceps injury and KO 3-4 weeks

Antoine Griezmann will no longer play any other LaLiga game this season. The tests he underwent this Sunday morning confirmed that he suffers “an injury to the quadriceps of the right leg”, as prayed the medical report issued by the club. In AS we can go a little further and anticipate that the player suffers a muscle break that will take him a minimum of three weeks away from the playing fields. That means that the remaining two games of LaLiga – Osasuna and Alavés – are lost with total security, although in principle, and if there are no setbacks, could arrive for the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 which is played at the Camp Nou on August 8.

Griezmann suffered this injury in the 11th minute, during a counterattack that resolved in the worst possible way when trying to find Messi to give him the assistance and finally send a ball back without rhyme or reason. At the end of that play, the Frenchman was repeatedly seen touching the quadriceps of his right leg. In fact, the huge mistake he made against Masip ten minutes later when he did not even finish off the ball that came free after a great assist from Semedo may be due to the fact that the striker was no longer comfortable on the pitch due to the inconvenience was noticing. Griezmann's mistake, in any case, is not knowing how to read his body correctly and requesting the change before to avoid further injury.

And is that the French international was the only player in the squad who had not yet been injured this course. Only in the preseason did he have a blow to the ankle that made him fear for his participation in the first games, but in the end he reached the first official game of the season with no problems. Now Griezmann will miss the last two league games and face the final stretch of the season with the challenge of recovering in time for the game against Naples in the Champions League.

A noticeable loss for Quique Setién, who had regained confidence in the Frenchman after having left him on the bench two games in a row. In any case, the Cantabrian coach has a significant list of forwards to end the season in LaLiga, since apart from Leo Messi and Luis Suárez, the other two legs of the trident, also features the Danish Martin Braithwaite and with the revelation of the season, the young attacker of the subsidiary, Ansu Fati, who served the match against Valladolid after being sent off a day earlier in the derby against Espanyol.