After being in the spotlight in recent weeks, Antoine Griezmann has taken a step forward at the start of 2021. The Frenchman played two good matches against Athletic and Granada and seems to be plugged in for the second half of the season.
The end of 2020 was almost catastrophic for Antoine Griezmann, whose position at FC Barcelona squad was beginning to be called into question. The player’s performance, once the star of the Atletico team, was far from what was expected of him.
Ronald Koeman trusted him since his arrival, but the patience of the Dutchman seemed to have been exhausted in the last matches of last year, as he did not have play against Valladolid and was subbed in during the match against Eibar when the match was 1-1.
In the game against Huesca at the start of 2021, the Frenchman only played nine minutes. It seemed that Martin Braithwaite had surpassed him as the first-choice striker, but everything now seems to have changed.
The fact is that against Athletic and Granada, two of the matches in which the team has played its best football so far this year, Antoine has been a starter and has played the full 90 minutes, with more than positive results that will reinforce his position in the team.
Against the Basque team, although he didn’t score, he was key to the 2-3 victory in San Mamés with an assist, while against Huesca, with the permission of the omnipresent Leo Messi, Griezmann was the great star of the Barcelona team
He scored two goals after more than a month without seeing a goal and got another assist. This double was his first in the league since August 2019 and should help the ‘7’ to put the bad luck that has dogged him in recent times behind him once and for all.
Griezmann has already got seven goals and four assists and he seems to have reacted just in time to play a key part in a Barcelona that seems to be returning to its best form.
