399. That is the number of games that Griezmann has played in the First Division since his debut, on September 27, 2009, with the txuri-urdin shirt in Anoeta, against Huesca. He will round up the figure tomorrow in a match that sums up the last years of his career: Atlético-Barça. Whims of the calendar. Since 2018 his comings and goings from one team to another, documentary included, caused suitcases, transfer to Barcelona, back to Madrid and not leaving a mark on any hobby. For those marches. The culé, hurt by the no but yes. The red and white, who adored him, for the yes but no. Tomorrow's will be the third game against the rojiblanca fans after their return. The whistles that sounded loud against Porto, against Athletic were less. Against Milan his entry from the bench was decisive. And Atlético's victory in that fundamental game.
Even Griezmann, Atleti lost despite playing with one more man. His goal started the comeback that Suárez would later finish off with a penalty. That goal, in addition, is the first for the Frenchman after his return with an effort, that of Simeone to re-fit his football masterpiece, Griezmann, into his team. A different team from the one that Griezmann left, which often won by an infallible pair, Oblak's stop, Antoine's goal. But two years later, the Atleti that the Frenchman left was champion, it has many resources, and in them it must be assembled.
Three teams: Real Sociedad, Atlético and Barcelona. 216 wins, 90 draws, 93 losses. 155 goals. 57 yellow cards, only one red. Those are their numbers in the First Division. With a market value now at 60 million, according to transfermarkt, which reached 100 million, in the season prior to his departure from Atlético to Barcelona. That Barcelona, that of Koeman, to which he arrived with the ambition of sitting at a table, that of Messi, that never reached. His was in Madrid, next to Cholo.