Chronicle.Messi wins without running or touching the ball
You don't have to be very clever to imagine that Antoine Griezmann, at half-time, was taken away by demons.
The Frenchman wasted a penatli and several chances to score.
In the first, who was under the sticks had a lot to do with it:
Claudio Bravo
.
«I know him from the time of the Real, but there is also a point of fortune.
I tried to deconcentrate it », revealed the goalkeeper in statements to Movistar.
But, after the hell of the first 45 minutes, redemption would come in the second half, with the goal on a tray that Leo Messi left him.
With an empty door, the Frenchman did not fail.
Then, with a smile from ear to ear, he jumped to hug the Argentine to celebrate.
And Messi responded by grabbing him in the air and holding him in his arms with a smiling gesture.
Those dark clouds that seemed to cloud their relationship last season seem to have been forgotten once and for all.
Griezmann, finally, managed to see the door
.
Curiously, against the same rival against whom he scored his first goals as a Barça player.
His current coach, Ronald Koeman, meanwhile, insists on highlighting the perseverance of the former rojiblanco, despite the fact that the aim turns his back so many times.
«To miss opportunities, you have to be there.
Marking will give you confidence and you
have to highlight the character that you have
and that leads you to continue working.
He knows that he has missed a penalty and two or three times, but despite his bad luck, he is always there and I think that is very important, "said the Dutchman, who also explained the reasons for Messi's unexpected substitution.
“We started talking about it on Friday.
Leo left the game against Dinamo Kiev with discomfort and was not in a position to start.
We talked about putting him on the bench, in case we needed him, and that's how it has been.
A player like Messi, if he does not have discomfort, always plays from the beginning ", settled the coach, who, on this occasion, had no reason to complain about the VAR.
Something that, on the other hand, Betis coach
Manuel Pellegrini did
.
«I believe that VAR is applicable to the extent that it is to correct blunders by the referee.
It is he who is on the court, not the VAR.
If it is the referee who expels the player and charges a penalty, it seems good to me, it is his right.
If it's not him and the VAR tells him, no longer, "he wielded.
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