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Antoine Griezmann is increasingly comfortable at Barça. Gradually, he has been strengthening the attack of a team capable of combining goals with tremendously lackluster performances. Therefore, as soon as the game was over against Alavés, clothes did not hurt when he admitted that, as the less applied students, they need to improve with a view to next year.

"We have not reached the ceiling," said the Frenchman in statements to Movistar LaLiga as soon as the duel against Alavés ended. «We wanted to score before them, and do it fast, to set the pace for the game . I think we had a good meeting and now it's time to rest, ”said a Griezmann who claimed some fatigue after the classic to justify the nth disconnection of the team. A disconnection that could cost a face, but that Messi solved at a stroke. "We played two days ago and the legs were somewhat tired, but I think we played a good game," the forward insisted.

His coach, Ernesto Valverde , meanwhile, wanted to highlight the reaction capacity that his players had after fitting 2-1. “We have moved our chair when everything seemed on track, but we reacted well , because we have players to do it. In football there is nothing written, you have to write it during the game, ”said the Barcelona coach, who is very clear about what he is asking for in 2020.“ The coaches ask for peace of mind, and that means winning matches. When you win, you always have peace of mind, ”he reiterated.

The VAR, again, had its dose of prominence. Asier Garitano , the Alavés coach, did not want to hide in the referee's decisions to excuse the defeat and Valverde, meanwhile, shared a very clarifying anecdote. «Last year, when we played the derby against Espanyol in Cornellà-El Prat, they scored a goal for us, they were like four minutes consulting and Arturo Vidal said 'give it and stop it, we'll go back'. In the end, they canceled it and we ended up winning 0-4 », the coach recalled.

Arturo Vidal, precisely, and Carles Aleñá were headlines against Alavés, despite the rumorology that places them as possible transfers in the winter market. Something that Valverde, at least for now, insists on discarding: «They have played a good game, they will be with us again after the holidays and I count on them, of course».

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