The Athletic of Bilbao is growing to big speed with the arrival of Marcelino, and this Sunday went back to plant face to the FC Barcelona. The 'lions' empataron in front of the Barça to the start of the second half, although fortunately the ones of Koeman did not lose the face to the party in any moment and followed trying it to the end, finding the reward in the goal of Griezmann.
The French attacker finished, in the minute 74, a big pass of the death of Mingueza after a beautiful played collective of the Barça, that knew to generate and attack to perfection the spaces so that 'Grizi' finished point-blank in the interior of the area, advancing again to the culés in the marker.
It treats of the sixth goal of the Frenchman in LaLiga Santander 2020-21, still very far of his best numbers in the competition, although in the last weeks is him seeing much more connected to the game that at the beginning of the course. In the global of all the competitions already is the tenth, explaining the two that accumulates in Champions League and the two that annotated in the final of the Supercopa of Spain precisely in front of the Athletic.
And it is that the 'lions' are a rival that to 'Grizi' gives him very well, no only with the Barcelona T-shirt but also when it played in the Athletic of Madrid and, before, in a Real Sociedad that it is the archi-rival of the team bilbaíno. If the 'lions' are improving to steps enlarged with Marcelino, Griezmann also is it doing in this second phase of the season 2020-21.
Griezmann Follows going up his provision
For proof of this, suffices with saying that this month of January Griezmann has marked five goals and has delivered four assistances, converting without place to doubts in one of the most decisive players of the team in the sweet series of consecutive victories that accumulates in LaLiga, in addition to in the rounds that has gone contesting of Glass and Supercopa.
Excepting the 0-2 in front of the Elche, Griezmann has had direct participation in six of the last seven meetings: assistance to Messi in the 2-3 suspender belt in Bilbao, doublet and pass of goal in the 0-4 in Granada, assistance in the 1-1 of Supercopa in front of the Real, two goals in the final to the Athletic, a target served to Leo Messi in Vallecas and the goal of this Sunday against the Basques. Definitely, Griezmann every time carbura better in this Barça.