December 21, 2014, Antoine Griezmann had been in the Atletico Madrid After having stood out in the Real society. The colchoneros were the current champions of Ligaand the Frenchman had arrived to take the place of some of the players who left due to the explosion of the team Simeone that had happened in a few years of struggling to get into the Champions League to take away a League Real Madrid from Cristiano Ronaldo y al Barcelona from Messi.
The ‘little Prince‘ had arrived after having shone in LaLiga as a left winger in Saint Sebastian. Nevertheless Diego Pablo Simeon I had other plans for him. The Argentine coach knew that if he placed him as a striker he could be one of the best players in the world. Time and that bronze ball have proved him right…
So when he got to apple orchards began a ‘military’ in which he had to adapt both to that position and to the demands of the cholos for that demarcation. Little by little the Macon He was understanding how he should press the areas of the field that he should occupy at all times…
During that time the Frenchman played 23 games, only 11 of them as starters, scoring six goals, two of them against Córdoba. Almost five months in which Griezmann was not untouchable for him cholosand even got a whistle from the Calderón for changing him in a match.
Hat-trick on the visit to Athletic
Antoine’s explosion
But everything changed in San Mames. He was the owner, Atletico Madrid won 1-4 with three goals from Griezmann who scored a headed goal and two with his left foot. His big bang came. The moment in which he was mature to be the forward that Simeone had sculpted for months.
From then on, that season he played 29 games, 27 of them as starters and scored 16 goals. He becoming one of the most important players in the team.
Griezmann’s drought
Now, six years later, he returns to San Mames. He has already done it on other occasions but this Saturday he has to turn his career around again. In this 2022 he has only scored one goal, and it was against Ray Majadahonda on the Copa del Rey. An injury has prevented him from performing at the level that was expected of him and that he has played great games since his return against Real Betis with assistance to Lemar and in front of Manchester United with a goal pass to Lodi. But she still hasn’t seen a door.
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He has gone 12 games without scoring. The second worst streak for him since he played in First divisionthe worst was experienced when he was a member of the Real society and reached 16 games. He now wants to end that drought, and to do so he visits an Athletic against whom he always has special motivation due to his ‘txuri-urdin’ past.
So much Antoine like the rest of the Atletico Madrid they expect San Mames resurrect the best Griezmann.
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