Griezmann: Barcelona ´angry´ after Alaves draw

Antoine Griezmann says Barcelona’s players were furious with themselves after a 1-1 draw at Deportivo Alaves in LaLiga on Saturday.

Barca failed to come up with a winner despite playing the majority of the second half with an extra man.

A goalkeeping mistake by Neto allowed Luis Rioja to give Alaves the lead before Jota was shown a second yellow for a dangerous high kick on Gerard Pique.

France striker Griezmann equalised soon after with a classy finish, but the Blaugrana could not find a way past Fernando Pacheco in the Alaves goal.

Pacheco’s seven saves were more than any other goalkeeper has made in a LaLiga game against Barca this season.

“We are angry, and angry because we wanted the three points,” Griezmann said in a media conference afterwards.

“We are failing a lot in front of goal, I am the first. We have had many chances, but we have only scored one.

“We have to work to improve. The team needs my goals and I try to improve on that.”

45 – Lionel Messi made 45 direct free kick shots in his last 41 games in all competitions for Barcelona and scored just once (vs Osasuna in July 2020). He scored four of his previous 12. Failure. pic.twitter.com/uAqCm57B9F

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The result meant Barca lost further ground on Real Madrid and are now eight points behind the leaders in 12th place.

It also ensured have equalled their joint-worst start to the season since LaLIga changed to three points for a win – Barcelona also had eight points after six games in 2002-03.

Although Griezmann said nobody at the club has started to panic.

“We must improve and with work it will be like that. We need calm because the campaign is long,” added Griezmann.

“We still have a lot to improve. We have to work towards Wednesday’s game against Dynamo Kiev now and try to win.”