Underhand enterprise of destruction of the myth N’Golo Kanté, stage 2. After having tackled in the first episode the supposed lack of individual ambitions of the midfielder of the France team, let’s move on to the next stage: the kindness. If, in Russia, the player was perhaps the nicest of the Blues, this year the former Caennais was grilled politeness by Antoine Griezmann.
Grizou who offers the penalty to Benzema in a preparatory match against the Welsh in Nice, Grizou who agrees to migrate to the right side to make room for the duo KM10 and KB19, Grizou who does not miss when the Madrilenian decides to hit again the penalty against Portugal and, last but not least, the latest friendliness to date, Grizou who concedes Mbappé the first free kicks while the Parisian is not yet known to be a crack in the matter.
There, the Barcelonan is the good guy (dare we say the good pear?) Who lets the grandmother walk past him at the cash register with his armored caddy when he had just come to buy urgently diapers for the youngest child . One would almost come to wonder if the former Colchoneros did not do a little too much, to the point of penalizing the France team, his France team, the one of which he has been the leader for more than five years now.
Amateur of the man as much as of the player, Omar Da Fonseca also wonders. “There is no denying that he is 100% involved in all that is hard work. That’s what I’ve already told him several times, it’s to his credit, it shows a kind of dignity, greatness of mind. However, when you have a player who has a palette like his, such an experience, he limits his inspiration a bit, his intuitions, and that is a problem for me. Mozart he plays, it is not for him to assemble the piano! “Ignites the consultant beIN Sport.
“Antoine is the very definition of altruism”
Regarding the free kick left to Mbappé against Hungary in the group stage, while he is far from being the most awkward in the discipline as evidenced by his stats with Atlético de Madrid (7 pawns out of 39 attempts), Griezmann played her a gentleman. “He took the ball and wanted to shoot it. He shoots free kicks really well, I’ve seen them in training, he knows how to do it. There was no problem, as soon as you feel it, you shoot. Too bad it didn’t come in but I know he can put them at the bottom. “There you go, that’s what I’m saying, sometimes we have the impression that he’s playing asking permission, we have the feeling that he’s made himself a little smaller than the others,” Da Fonseca says. It is contradictory compared to what he represents in the France team. He does not value himself enough but maybe he is not aware of it. “
For Philippe Montanier, his coach at Real Sociedad from 2011 to 2013, it’s quite the opposite in reality. If he gives, it’s because he likes it. And too bad if the theory of the great player whose ego could only be equaled by his talent takes a hit in the tiles. “He has ego for everything performance, to withstand the pressure, tempers the new Toulouse coach. I knew him very young and we could already see that he had a strong personality, but Antoine is the very definition of altruism. He takes pleasure in serving others. When he can help himself he does it, but it really doesn’t come first. It is even more obvious in the defensive efforts since the start of the competition. If Mbappé finally deigns to use a little of his pep to come back down to help his friends, it is especially Griezmann who spends his time doing the dirty work.
“I miss the finisher Griezmann”
“I often give this sentence” he knows how to do it but he is convinced that he must also show it “. For Griezmann, that’s it, I feel like he wants to show the sacrifices he is capable of making. He did it at Atlético de Madrid but not as much, judges the Argentinian commentator. There, in this Euro, he does it a lot, too much I think. Against Germany, I can no longer count the number of times he was found behind Hernandez, it’s crazy! “. And if we know that the Barcelonan has the canes to repeat the back and forth, Da Fonseca does not believe in the theory of the cornucopia.
“I still think that when you look too much in the rearview mirror, you then have a hard time concentrating on the front windshield. He uses too much energy and he inevitably loses juice to attack, I find that he tries less dribbling, he does less fake strikes, at times he is so applied to make the efforts that he loses some of it. inspiration in attack. Afterwards, I have no doubt that he feeds on that, that he needs to be like that to be completely fulfilled, but I miss the game initiator, Griezmann and finisher. “
Grizou best tackle of the Euro, WTF ???
Its stats attest to this. There is one in particular that made us swallow our chamomile askew: at the end of the group stage, all players combined and not only French team, Grizou is neither more nor less than the best tackler in the competition, with eleven balls scratched by throwing his feet forward. We are still close to the anomaly, right? “Ah ben Antoine is a former Colchoneros, eh, he knows where he comes from”, laughed Presnel Kimpembe in a press conference when he was released the stat. The grinta virus injected by Diego Simeone is still resistant to the FC Barcelona vaccine, that is to say.
Moreover, his former coach in the Basque Country certifies it: the native of Mâcon takes a monstrous footing to defend. “I remember that one day I didn’t have a left-back and he helped me out at the end of the game without flinching. And he had been extraordinary (laughs)! It is really his nature, it is absolutely not forced. He told me “no worries coach, I’ll take care of it, you’ll see, it will do it”. For a coach and for his teammates, a guy like that is a gold mine, he is so versatile, he knows how to do everything so much, that depending on the situation he is able to get you out of all the problems. Maybe it puts less emphasis on his offensive performance, but every medal has its downside. “If he’s happy like that, after all …