- Barcelona parted ways with Napoli at the San Paolo on Tuesday, 1-1.
- Antoine Griezmann scored Barca’s only goal of the fixture.
- However, he rarely received a pass from any Barcelona player throughout the whole game.
No Barca player passed the ball to Antoine Griezmann more than five times in the Napoli game, statistical account Between The Posts notes.
This, however, didn’t stop him from scoring Barca’s only away goal that was so needed for our hopes of progressing!
But still, let’s take a closer look at the massing map. Even if you don’t know the number of passes received by Antoine, it looks sad.
In the first half of the game, the forward did just six ball touches. After the break, the situation changed a little bit as Barca’s positional play often switched to counterattacking.
It still seems, however, that the Frenchman struggles to display his best football when Barca keep possession. Some of Antoine’s goals this season were scored after breakaways (let’s remember the Ibiza game) when he got the freedom to run with the ball and cold-bloodedly netted his goals.
Besides, Griezmann was playing really close to the left wing – something that was often tested by Ernesto Valverde while he was in charge.
Does Griezmann have what it takes to fit into Setien’s system? Or should he be used in another way?
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