Griezmann’s vow and record against Real Sociedad ahead of Copa del Rey final | OneFootball

Atlético face Real Sociedad in the Copa del Rey final on Saturday 18 April, a meeting laced with history for Antoine Griezmann. La Real are the club that launched him.

AS highlights that, before arriving at Zubieta, repeated rejections in France followed the forward’s slight frame. On Tuesday, after Atlético-Barça, Henry thanked him for his football and for his France career.

Real Sociedad gave him his chance, and he grew there, playing 202 games and scoring 52 goals. One endures, the bicycle kick against Lyon in 2013 Champions qualifying. A year later he moved to Madrid, to Atlético.

Across 10 seasons as a rojiblanco, with two at Barça in between, he has met his former club as many as 26 times. He has eight goals, six for Atlético.

He has said he would never celebrate a goal against Real Sociedad. On 7 April 2015, in his first return to Anoeta in different colours, he struck in the ninth minute for 0-1 and the match finished 0-2. None of his goals against La Real have been celebrated.

All his Atlético goals against them have come in La Liga, in both league meetings of 15-16, then in 17-18 and 22-23, and again in 23-24.

Source: AS