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Antoine Griezmann failed his penalti in front of the Real Sociedad

VITAL CONVERSATION

The call of Koeman that did to feel more comfortable to Griezmann

Published:7/02/2021 - 18:17h

Updated:7/02/2021 - 18:17h

Ronald Koeman has confessed in a press conference that called to Antoine Griezmann during the pre-season, to transmit him his confidence and do it feel well

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Antoine Griezmann is concretising a big start of year in the rows of the FC Barcelona, thanks to his stood out performance of face to the arch and to the assistances. In the last ten parties, the French has attained to add seven goals and six vital passes, standing out in the victories of his team in front of the Athletic of Bilbao and in front of the Granada.

Little by little, Griezmann has gone back vital in the diagram of Ronald Koeman, clearing the alluvium of criticisms that is used to to receive the Frenchman when it does not appear or when it signs a concrete performance. However, the ex Athletic of Madrid has not been only in his fight for finishing to cover the expectations that the surroundings culé has on him, since the same has explained, from the start of the campaign, with the fundamental support of his trainer.

Like this it has confessed it the same Koeman, the one who has commented in the corresponding press conference to the previous of the party in front of the Betis that held a conversation telephone with Griezmann when it was hired like strategist of the Barcelona, to transmit him his confidence. Said talk, based with the participation that the trainer has offered him to the French footballer, have been two of the keys for the progress of the same during the present campaign.

On the call, Koeman shared the anecdote in the talk with the means of the following way: "I Remember the call that did him when I signed by the Barça. I said him that had a lot of confidence in him and transmitted him by telephone that felt important. It is truth that at the beginning did not have so much effectiveness as now, but in any moment have doubted of him. It is a player that does a lot of self-criticism and works a lot of, no can him ask more to a player that engages so much with the team"

Griezmann, to by his previous numbers

In the first season that Antoine Griezmann visited the T-shirt culé, the same attained to sign 15 goals and four assistances in 48 parties. However, during the present campaign, the ex Real Sociedad already adds 12 so many and eight passes to goal, in so alone 29 commitments, by what is to so alone four goals to improve his registers like Barcelona forward.

If no lesiona, is basically a fact that Griezmann will improve his contribution of goals and assistances like barcelonista, what means a big advance for a player that has been inmensamente criticised and has seen in the centre of the controversies many times. By his part, Koeman is one of the big culprits, being this another of the legated that the míster Dutch has achieved in the season.