What Griezmann said to Riqui Puig after missing his penalty

Published:14/01/2021 - 12:25h

Updated:14/01/2021 - 12:25h

Antoine Griezmann failed a penalti decisive in the FC Barcelona-Real Sociedad of Supercopa of Spain, but Riqui Puig amended the error of the French

This Wednesday, the FC Barcelona confronted to the Real Sociedad in the first semifinal of the Supercopa of Spain in a party that finished in tie to a goal -marked Frenkie of Jong and Mikel Oyarzábal- and that had to decide in the batch of penaltis, in which the culés went out victorious. In this batch, Marc-André ter Stegen and Riqui Puig were the face, whereas Antoine Griezmann was the cross.

Marc-André ter Stegen detained the two first launchings of the Real Sociedad and saw like the third went to the stick, whereas the FC Barcelona saw how falaba Frenkie of Jong but hinder the shots of Ousmane Dembélé and Miralem Pjanic. The culés were to an alone launching of the victory, but went then when Antoine Griezmann launched the penalti decisive to the clouds.

Luckily, after the failure of Antoine Griezmann, the FC Barcelona still had a new opportunity thanks to the advantage harvested in the first launchings, by what Riqui Puig directed to the penalty spot to execute the launching. With an astounding tranquility, the midfield player formed in the Masia threw raso and to his right to certify the pass of the culés to the final of the Supercopa of Spain.

After the meeting against the Real Sociedad, Riqui Puig attended to several media and, when it was speaking with the official television of the FC Barcelona, occurred a curious anecdote with Antoine Griezmann of protagonist. During the interview with the canterano, the French went through behind and, euphoric, could not expect to that the Catalan finished to speak with him.

"Thank you, brother!", it said him Antoine Griezmann to Riqui Puig, while it put face to face with him and did him a carantoña. The words of the French forward have to put in the context of what there was sucedido: the Frenchman had the victory in his hand and failed a decisive launching. In case that Riqui Puig had failed also and the FC Barcelona had been deleted, the French had been signalled.

It is thus that Antoine Griezmann appreciated him to Riqui Puig that it had not failed his penalti since, in this way, the failure of the international Frenchman remained in a mere anecdote. In spite of this, does not be necessary desmerecer to the '7' culé, that went back to be determinant with his assistance to Frenkie of Jong in the first time.