Despite a slight start in November, Antoine Griezmann fell back into his faults at FC Barcelona. Lack of leadership, very average performance, the French striker does nothing to reassure the most skeptical.
Griezmann does not advance Barcelona.
The clearing up was short-lived for Antoine Griezmann (29). Mute during his first 6 outings this season, the French striker had to wait until October 31 against Alavs (1-1) to open his counter, blocked 5 achievements since the victory Ferencvaros (0-3) on December 2. Since then, the world champion has continued to show even more worrying signs.
A worrying food shortage, a lack of leadership
Indeed, the tricolor striker remains on a worrying series of 7 games without scoring. He is thus approaching his worst performance since his arrival at the club, in the summer of 2019, since he had experienced a scarcity of 8 games between February 25 and July 5. In actual playing time, this silence is even more disturbing since during his first series of poor performances in the Catalan jersey, he was ineffective for 474 minutes. Today, and while the clock is still running before the trip to Bilbao, Wednesday, it has already reached 533 minutes without shaking the net. A real misery for a player who feeds on the goal.
Beyond this incapacity to find his best level, it is his lack of leadership that raises questions. While many have accused Lionel Messi of not helping him get his head out of the water, Griezmann is not taking the bull by the horns either. While La Pulga did not budge to let him shoot a penalty, ultimately missed, against Betis (5-2), the Blue did not take the three repair kicks agreed to Barcelona in the absence of the ‘Argentine. Against Dynamo Kiev (0-4) and Huesca (0-1), it was Martin Braithwaite who took responsibility. Facing Ferencvaros (0-3), it was Ousmane Dembl who started. A flagrant lack of personality that poses a problem.
Koeman wants an additional striker
Least efficient striker of the club with a goal every 267 minutes (119 minutes for Fati, 142 minutes for Dembl, 166 minutes for Messi, 188 minutes for Braithwaite), Griezmann will find no comfort with Ronald Koeman. The Dutch coach, who left him on the Valladolid bench and gave him just 9 minutes of play against Huesca, insisted on getting an additional striker this winter. It is not necessary to repeat what we said at the start of the season, to know that we are missing someone in front. We need someone in the front to have more competition, to have more goals and efficiency , he argued. A good way to put pressure on his attackers, and in particular Griezmann, who will seriously have to put on the heat.
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