Antoine Greizmann goal Vs Villarreal: Watch Barcelona superstar with sublime finish

Tanish Chachra | 06/07/2020
Antoine Greizmann goal Vs Villarreal: Watch Barcelona superstar with sublime finish

Antoine Greizmann goal Vs Villarreal: Watch Barcelona superstar making a sublime finish against Villarreal, finally ending his drought.

Antoine Greizmann finally managed to shine on the occasion to end the biggest goal drought of his career against after scoring a sublime goal against Villarreal.

The French superstar was being criticized for not turning up to his price tag, whereas, Quique Seiten was being doubted for his utilization of Greizmann.

But it took one amazing goal by Greizmann to silence his doubters, Barcelona was charging upfront when Lionel Messi received the ball, and the Argentine International abruptly passed the ball backwards to Greizmann who was alone in the box.

In response, Greizmann lobbed the ball over Sergio Asenjo, giving a comfortable lead to Barcelona of 3-1 before the half time.

Antoine Greizmann goal Vs Villarreal

It was later observed that the goal was totally identical to the one Messi scored last season, and the similarity between the two goals is absolutely uncanny. Although, Messi surely had a tougher angle back then.

Own-goal delayed the end of the drought

Barcelona made a decisive impact in the game in the initial minutes by going 1-0 up. Jordi Alba with his amazing run sent the ball inside, where he accurately spotted Greizmann.

The goal was inevitable however, there was a twist as the goal-scorer was someone else. It was discovered when Greizmann was about to barge the ball inside the net, Pau Torres knocked the ball himself inside the net instead of defending it.

Therefore, the first goal of the game was declared as an own-goal, making Greizmann wait a little bit more. But finally, the French International managed to fetch a goal at last.

Post Edited By: Tanish Chachra
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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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