Griezmann’s relapse in the match against Rayo Majadahonda, in the Copa del Rey, from the muscle injury in his right thigh that he suffered in the derby against Real Madrid was a hard blow for Simeone, who lost the Frenchman for the Spanish Super Cup in Arabia. Days later, the Argentine coach was still ruminating on that word at the press conference, relapses. He traveled to Riad el Cholo without his French star and returned early, after losing to Athletic in another match without identity and with all its flaws on the pitch. In addition to one more footballer for the infirmary, Kondogbia.
Today the team will return to work, this afternoon, in the first session after the Super Cup, on the hill. Grass on which, hours before, Griezmann had already worked. The French shortens the deadlines to return as soon as possible and this morning he trained for the first time on the grass. He told it himself in an Instagram story, posting a photo of a conversation with his wife, Erika Chopenera, in which he told her: “I finally put on my boots. First day,” he wrote, with a photo of them in the locker room.
Story de Griezmann and Instagram.
Griezmann returned to Atlético two years after leaving for Barcelona to reinforce a team that was already a league champion and, although the results are not accompanying, Simeone’s worst in his ten years on the rojiblanco bench, the numbers do accompany the Frenchman, with 8 goals, tied with Correa, only one behind the 9 of Suárez.