Antoine Griezmann protests against two former players who criticize him

Antoine Griezmann doesn't just have admirers on the football planet. Despite his hybrid role in the French team and sometimes at Atlético de Madrid, the Frenchman shines season after season, both in selection and in club if we forget his two seasons with FC Barcelona. This is precisely what former England striker Jay Bothroyd, a former Wolverhampton player, criticizes in Australian media Optus Sport. “I like him a lot to be honest, but why hasn't he made it at a bigger club if he's so good? You can adapt when you're this good. (…) When I look at him, I tell myself that he wanders between positions. You can jog around the field, but it's the high-intensity runs that count. I think he puts himself in a zone, a bit like Berbatov, where he can cheat a little.”

An opinion shared by the show's other consultant, Mark Schwarzer, illustrious goalkeeper for Australia (109 caps) and the Premier League. “In attack, his quality is quite comparable to the best, but I don't feel like we've seen enough of him to rank him among the best players”, he starts, even attacking the Frenchman's volume of play. Words that made journalist Phil Kitromilides jump. “He is literally the hardest working strikerdefends the presenter. He does everything for the team, you don't see superstar strikers dropping back and making tackles on the edge of their penalty area, he does it all the time. Look at the tackling he does, look at the amount of work he puts in, no other superstar striker does that.” The extract from the show was published on social networks and did not escape the attention of the main interested party. “They don’t know anything about football.” The message is clear !