Football
Mbappé: “Damn, guys”, Griezmann cracks live!
Published on June 1, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.
Antoine Griezmann stepped up to the plate for his captain in the France team. Pointing the finger for a less flashy investment or a less obvious impact on his teams, Kylian Mbappé can count on the support of Antoine Griezmann as the latter proved at a press conference on Thursday.
Kylian Mbappé was certainly not decisive for the PSG during the double confrontation against the Borussia Dortmund in the semi-final of the Champions League or seemed somewhat discreet about its impact in certain major meetings of the season Paris Holy–Germain. However, the French striker still piled up the goals during this exercise with the French champion (44 goals in all competitions).
“44 goals? Damn… (laughs) And he didn’t have a good season?”
Some observers like the journalist Bertrand Tower wonders about a somewhat lesser impact of Kylian Mbappé on his team’s play than in the past. Questioned at this press conference by Tower on the level of Kylian Mbappé, Anthony Griezmann seemed tired of having to answer it given the statistics on Mbappé’s season with the PSG. “Kylian has scored how many goals? “. A journalist present in the room responds: “44”. Griezmann resumes. “Damn… (laughs) And he didn’t have a good season? Damn guys. Afterwards, they will be fresher for us, so much the better for the French team. They will have fresh legs. It’s certain that maybe for the first or second match, you have difficulty entering the competition. But then it goes by itself. There are some who have played a lot, maybe too much, whether they will be tired or not, you never know. They are there and have no physical problems. I think they will be 100%.”
“He scored 44 goals guys”
“Even Kylian, no matter what anyone says, he scores. He scored 44 goals, guys, there’s more to football than stats, I hate it when we only talk about that, but it’s still huge. It’s up to us to put him in the best conditions, to ensure that he is happy, that he touches as many balls as possible and then we will have other offensive weapons with Marcus (editor’s note Thuram), Kolo (editor’s note Randal Kolo Muani), Oliv (editor’s note Giroud), Ousmane (editor’s note Dembélé) or Kingsley (editor’s note Coman) or Bradley (editor’s note Barcola) who has just arrived. I think whether it’s defensively or offensively, we have something to do and everyone will have their role to play at some point.” concluded Anthony Griezmann. The tone is set as we approach theEuro which will take place in Germany from June 14 to July 14.
