• Chronicle.Messi welcomes Griezmann in a Barcelona with a headwind

It had been almost a year since

Antoine Griezmann had

scored two goals in the same game for

Barça

.

The last time, it served to come back in the

Cup

against

Ibiza

and end up taking the classification 1-2.

In La Liga, meanwhile, you have to go back to August

25, 2019

, when it was your debut at the Camp Nou, against

Betis

.

Then, as in

Granada

, it also gave an assist.

The French, of course, is now with morale through the roof.

"Before they did not enter, now things are going well and we have to continue like this," he said in Movistar LaLiga.

From his point of view, the team has also found its own particular philosopher's stone.

"We have to add three at a time in all the games. We have given a good image, as happened in

Bilbao

, and we must maintain this line," said a Griezmann who threw faith in what was the first goal of the Catalans and in which a bad clearance by

Sodado

enabled him

.

«I got the ball, I thought it wasn't offside and that's why I played it.

Everything else came from the confidence that the team now has, "summed up the Barça forward, who praised

Samuel Umtiti's

contribution to

the rear.

"He played a great game," he settled.

Ronald Koeman

shared his opinion.

The French central, who previously did not seem to have much prestige in the coach's plans, seems to have finally been pardoned.

"It's

always important to have a clean sheet until the end

. Defensively, the team was very good. It was Samuel's first full game in a long time and I think he has done very well. He has looked for a lot of vertical passes and that's something. that I like. Umtiti, like Mingueza, has shown to have a place in this squad, "said the Dutchman.

Umtiti was a last minute novelty in the line-up due to muscular discomfort from a

Ronald Araujo

who is now awaiting further tests to know the extent of his injury.

He was not the only player who left Granada limping.

Sergiño Dest

also finished the game somewhat touched, according to Koeman, although his physical problems do not seem to be so important.

In the second half, the coach gave the American rest and also did the same with

Pedri, Dembélé, De Jong and a Messi

who had not been substituted without injury for almost two years.

On January 11, in a Cup match against Celta, Valverde brought Dembélé into his place after the Argentine scored two goals in the first 15 minutes of a match that ended in a 5-0 victory.

Messi, Pichichi

Messi, with two goals, was placed as

Pichichi

alone.

He achieved the second direct free kick.

Something that has not been achieved since the Catalans fell on July 16 at the Camp Nou against Osasuna (1-2).

On social media, his wife, Antonella, shared how her son Mateo celebrated him euphorically.

Koeman, of course, celebrated the great performance of the Argentine, who stressed that he has always been committed to his project.

"From the first day,

the contact with Leo has been good.

From his first training session he has done his best to be fit and help the team. As a team, it was difficult at first, and now he is showing a lot of effectiveness, which is what we are used to it. If he does not score in a couple of games, there will always be people unhappy or worried, but I never have been. I have always seen him compromised. He is scoring more goals than at the beginning, but that does not mean that now is more involved. It is a question of moments and, sometimes, the rival goalkeeper has been the best of his team and that also influences his effectiveness, "he stressed.

Now, he sees the glass half full, but insisted that everyone should contribute their bit.

"

Fighting for everything does not depend on one player

, it has to be through the mentality of one team. We have important players who cannot play at the moment and if they were all right, in their best form, it would be possible to fight for all. the titles. The team is improving a lot, we have taken nine points out of nine possible away from home and with a game that gives me a lot of confidence for what we have ahead, "said the Barça coach, who reiterated that he has no problem with Riqui Puig.

"It seems that I have something against

Riqui

, and it is not like that. With what I said the other day I was referring to young people, like

Konrad, Junior or Matheus

, who do not have minutes. You always take a name, and that is not good neither for Riqui nor for me. If there is something, we talk about it among ourselves, "he said.

"If we play concentrated and there is a rhythm of the ball, there are few rivals who can control us. With the effectiveness we had in Granada, we can say that we are on the right track, but we must be humble and keep working," he said.

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