Antoine Griezmann: Barcelona superstar responds to Lebron James’ tweet over confetti celebration

Tanish Chachra | 26/08/2019
Antoine Griezmann: Barcelona superstar responds to Lebron James' tweet over confetti celebration

Antoine Griezmann: Barcelona superstar reacts to Lebron James’ tweet over confetti celebration and calls him idol.

Antoine Griezmann saved the day for Barcelona, as his brace against Real Betis helped them to register their first three points of the season.

It was Los Verdiblancos, who scored the first goal of the match, and Barcelona looked out of shape to even make a comeback, but a goal by Griezmann before the end of the first half to level the score, boosted the morale of Catalan giants.

In the second half, Barcelona roared back, and it took less than 5 minutes for the Blaugranas to register a lead after Griezmann scored a spectacular goal from the edge of the 18-yard-box.

Watch the celebration

https://twitter.com/MagicallZizou/status/1165839334185897986?s=20

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To celebrate this, the French international went to the sideline, and made a confetti celebration to pay a homage to legendary basketball player Lebron James. The confetti flew by Griezmann was of Blaugrana colours.

This celebration by Griezmann fetched so much attention that James even posted a tweet to applaud Griezmann for his goal and celebration.

It didn’t take a while for the 28-year-old Barcelona start to respond at veteran Basketball player’s reply. and we can see that it was a fan moment for the World Cup winning player, who even called Lebron his idol.

Ever since, Griezmann has done this celebration, it is trending on the internet and since James also made a reaction to it, the Confetti celebration is expected to trend.

Coming to the impact of this goal, after this Barcelona went on a rampage and scored another three goals to make it five. From here, Real Betis had no coming back, yet the away team scored one more goal in the dying minutes, making the final score 5-1 at the full time.

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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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