Where does Antoine Griezmann rank for all-time French forwards? | ESPN FC Extra Time

Kay Murray, Frank Leboeuf, Shaka Hislop and Steve Nicol answer your questions on ESPN FC Extra Time.
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10:28 Start, Bench or Drop: EURO 2024 Edition
14:01 Which team is most likely to get upset in Round of 16?
14:41 Where does Griezmann rank an all-time great French forwards?
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17:56 Will Frank celebrate the 4th of July?
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[@rayaanyunus1071]

griezmann for france is getting disrespected in my opinion, best player at euro 2016, arguably the best at the world cup 2018, and a top 3 player in world cup 2022 (in my opinion, france's most consistent player up till the final). One of the best players for france of all time in my opinion

[@generalgrevious2712]

I agree he is so good not rated enough

[@chirola9923]

Agree 100%

[@11robinho07]

Griezmann suck! Who he better than in French great? Please stop he pass and take decent shots once in a while he can't dribble pass anyone or create magically performance stop

[@user-bi5nw4vp6t]

​@@11robinho07Then every French player sucks more than him too. He was the best in squad, so others are big trash

[@11robinho07]

​@user-bi5nw4vp6t I do not disagree with you all those big money players under performance. Football lost it ways just as Karim the dream said, you score a goal you're the best even if you done nothing throughout the game. He does very little

[@UchennaAnedu]

I feel like Greizmann should be considered an all time French Great… given what he’s achieved with the team and his consistency with them… let’s not forget he played 73 consecutive matches for the team and he’s up there in goals as well.

[@eirenuaireland]

Guler is a fantastic striker of a ball . His corner shots are on the money . Good young player

[@neilcoles1780]

Petit ahead of Kante would be Madness

[@couragewatadza1523]

Griezmann is indeed a French legend

[@clutcha_drip138]

Griezmen reminds me of Di Maria, always in the shadows of messi even though Di Maria is the one stepping up in clutch momets

[@JarrettMehldau]

I understand the comparison, they're both technical lefties, and they achieved comparable status in the world of football, both are WC winners as well. However, I do think that Di Maria just has a bit more natural talent compared to Griezmann, no disrespect to AG though.

[@user-jz2fy3xz1e]

@@JarrettMehldauFair honestly

[@renoirrandy7241]

Wrong on that

[@mike04574]

So griezmann has never been clutch? Best player for france at euro 2016 and 2018 World Cup, arguably 2022 World Cup as well as euro 2021

[@mauricewilliams3478]

Not a good comparison but I am glad you acknowledge Di Maria greatness. He had carried Messi internationally

[@rulifaller8474]

He should definitely be. He has been the most important player in a team that has been at the top of the pile for 10 years. By far the longest stretch in French football history. Watching from the outside it is a no brainer if you base it on international football.

[@REAHSWAY2]

Griezmann is disrespected at france because of him playing for ATM he is important for how france play and their success

[@tres311]

“Top 30” 😂 yo….what an insult.

[@Scarface615]

Start Musiala all day, he has had a better euro than Yamal, Nico and Guler

[@OGWannaKnowMe]

The Kante disrespect was crazy

[@johnathankonandreas6074]

Only surpassed by the Griezmann disrespect!

[@OGWannaKnowMe]

@@johnathankonandreas6074 both are greats but I can’t argue against Griezmann

[@RazeefRazeff]

Griezmann will be remembered for his goal celebration 😅😅😅.. he is actually the player Deschamps used as a secret " defensive midfield"... He is always at the right time & place to help out in defence .. eventhough he is a forward.. that's the reason kante & dogba excel in the 2018 wcup win..he is the false no 9 & false no 6..

[@jakebowen572]

None of them starting Musiala?? Are they serious?

[@Danny_Selam]

Yamal is that great of a generational talent

[@cowabunga9438]

@@Danny_Selam watch him completely flop in the coming years

[@diavolo007]

@@cowabunga9438you wish

[@Sam-fq5qu]

There is Platini, Zidane level. Then there's Henry Then Griezmann, Mbappe

[@AF-we4re]

zidane was overrated

[@muhammadradhivan8436]

@@AF-we4re how old are you?

[@510maestro]

@@AF-we4reyou’re just going for a hot take. All the French All Time Players have Zidane as their all time great.

[@fanboy7181]

Mbappe Isn't far away from surpassing Henry

[@munyathedreamer]

Mbappe is a French great. Forget about your nostalgia and watched all these players

[@mamadousy9632]

"Wooden spoon generations" Shaka should apologize for this lol

[@knandez7__821]

Griezmann is absolutely fantastic for France for a long time. He's been an instrumental player, and it felt like had France dropped him many games in the past, the whole team would have crumbled and looked absolutely shaky in terms of efficiency and creativity. Yes, his first four games at this Euros are absolutely weak, but then again, the entire forward line for France underperformed this Euros thus far. He has a winners mentally, and he's the type of player you want on the pitch if you don't want to bottle games in crucial moments. A good example of this is immediately after he was subbed off in Euros 2020, the entire team fell apart totally uncharacteristically and got knocked out by Switzerland. If France wants to Actually win the Euros, Griezmann has to wake up and perform like he the past two seasons with Atletico madrid.

[@11robinho07]

Griezmann is the reason France can't play good football he can't create as a 10 or score. I know we forgotten football because of the new system pep has created but a 10 is the like or Musiala and Writz, Ronaldinho. Griezmann can not play like none of them. He was better of on the left winger when he played for Real betis

[@RafaelHemzaAbreu-uw4kc]

​@@11robinho07 real betis? Friend, you are so bothered by Griezmann that you say he played for Betis, hahaha

[@knandez7__821]

@@RafaelHemzaAbreu-uw4kc I couldn't believe he said that lol.

[@tariqomer4678]

​@@11robinho07Real Betis? You just killed yourself there. The team is Sociedad

[@Orion4976]

Griezmann is an all time top 10 french attacking players... easy. He doesnt have the media bias cause he has played at Atleti for so long. Had he had the same accomplishments at a club like Arsenal or Juventus, for example, it would be a different story. But the media hates Simeone and that projects into his players. Has performed amazingly for France in 2016, 2018, 2022 events + that Nations League they won.

[@Kwami357]

Griezman is a fantastic player but i don't see him in the top 5 of French all-time greats

[@zemprelo]

He is most definitely not top 5 French all time. The conversation is where he ranks among forwards

[@finfog4590]

Fontaine, Platini, Zidane.. then?

[@jaymkz3225]

@@finfog4590Guys like Desailly, Thuram, Jean-Pierre Papin would come next

[@bobby5161]

@@finfog4590 Kopa, Henry and Thuram

[@zemprelo]

@@Kwami357 if we’re saying just French players regardless of position: Zidane, Platini, Henry, Fontaine, Papin, Lizarazu, Cantona, Ginola, Desailly, Vieira, Benzema, Ribery, Papin, Thuram, Mbappe, Blanc, Anelka, Giroud and many more not mentioned, but Griezman belong in that list among the French greats.

[@yusufali2745]

Pele is the GOAT of football 💯💯💯

[@inzykhan415]

Pele is in the grave

[@michaelrowell7798]

​@inzykhan415 Extreme disrespect, my friend

[@roullahelspawn]

​@@inzykhan415 lol and so? Goats are not allowed to pass away?

[@BurnsTennis]

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="157">02:37</a> Dont Hutchison 😂

[@MalteseBurger]

Yes

[@morgadothethird3381]

extra time of 30minutes is the best choice.

[@peterparker6377]

Left footers have different magic in their foot to do magnificent playmaking, beautiful passes,time has prooved Messi, Maradona, Ozil, D maria, Griezman

[@kurofune.uragabay]

_Is Griezmann an all-time great?_ *Fock yeah*

[@naldodan4001]

Nope

[@starplus1978]

​@@naldodan4001zero ball knowledge

[@Gregoroth1]

Frank is back with the GOAT debate haha!!

[@davegoodwin1950]

Aside from watching England as a kid, I used to love watching Platini. He's gotta be the GOAT of french footy

[@gigii9419]

Absolutely

[@nicolasvaldez8192]

A French great, 100 % . Not top 5

[@NOLIMIT2359]

Top 10 forsure, has been the engine of this France team since taking them to the Euro Finals in 2016 and should have won a balón d oro that same year

[@renoirrandy7241]

The one you vote for

[@brexistentialism7628]

Frank loving this

[@roboi2241]

So they've been employed to give their breakdown on the euros and Shaka, a goalkeeper in his time didn't see the Turkish keeper's wonder save in a last 16 match? Nice work if you can get it. Hope he can see the final if he's got nothing better to do, before coming on the ESPN after-show.

[@velocity5741]

Yup. These “analysts” don’t even watch the games just skip through the channels, pathetic honestly.

[@VANNM3717]

Frank in studio like a fun

[@marco1njie726]

Surprise Frank's English improves dramatically when he's in the ESPN studio

[@phsousa71]

Can't believe Frank didn't mention Just Fontaine! Come on. Just Fontaine! It's something I've noticed here and there. Whenever asked about their all-time 11, footballers' lists are limited to their own generation. They don't know the history of their own field (pun intended).

[@michaelrowell7798]

Why not penalties after 90 minutes (plus the obligatory 10 minutes of injury time) in the group stage and then ET in matches in the knock-out phase??

[@user-nl3hp9ik1k]

With that solid backline of France Kante has been solid but if i am deschamp i will preferred attacking mid and overload the center pitch

[@samuelscars7]

Shaka laugh uhhh faaaahh ahahahah

[@lonelyboy1977]

No player in modern day football is an all-time great. The level of the players today has fallen so low compared to previous decades.

[@r.sakarollsafe1285]

About the hair and raining during the game, im more interested on those whose hair just maintains its shape throughout. De Gea’s hair for example never fell out of place. HOW??

[@marc.the.red1987]

Griezmans a class player . Can play any position

[@zulutgseta8276]

Including as goalkeepur position?.. 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@myp0h]

Why can't he play right back?

[@511dydy]

One of the best french players on euro if not the best

[@user-bi1yw1du7q]

top 10

[@chirola9923]

Definitely

[@flickchic238]

It should go to extra time because extra time is the initial tie braker.

[@ryanchikomba597]

Don't know why but I just feel like if Griezeman, Giroud or Kante were the captains, Francë would bë a stronger than they are now. Love Mbappe but how can hê shout at Giroud Francë top scorer. Mbappe never press now they make him captain his no pressing is even worse.

[@omardevonlittle3817]

Not as bad as prime messi yet... though

[@HussainHayki]

Griezman is so underrated

[@boogy1033]

Vieira, Descamps and Petit better than Ngolo Kanté ? 😂😂😂😂

[@danielh4295]

Vieira is an interesting case since he can most definitely play the 8 next to Kante. But Kante being the GOAT 6 has to be included in front of the other 2.

[@munyathedreamer]

Ver

[@AnaMaria-lc4se]

Ofcourse he is , is that even a question

[@jus_danny]

Without a doubt Griezmann is up there

[@nz72120]

1.Zidane 2.Platini 3.Mbappe(has chance to go top) 4.Kopa 5.Thuram

[@axeya366]

Rate him highly. Not a superstar but a quality player. Not a Zidane but more like a Henry.

[@ulfanfinneriksen4643]

Griezmann is a midfielder for me. Attacking midfielder like Zidane and Platini. He is behind them.

[@andrewsadikin5226]

Yes he is for certain no: 5 or 6 in the GOAT of France

[@mmhis74]

Watch the Griezmann documentary. Makes his story more amazing...🎉

[@user-wg6cy8lb9v]

Luv it.Go to Penalties after 90😊

[@zulutgseta8276]

Antowwa Grease-man

[@JW-28]

Every soccer game should go to pens after 90 minutes. No draws. Draws are stupid.

[@cactaceous]

Talk about stupid…

[@manoz6194]

I hate penalties so much but extra time gives so much drama!

[@edwardokudeye3409]

Playing penalties after 90mins for major tournaments is cruel.

[@danieltembo5772]

😮 Shaka should apologize for dropping NICO WILLIAMS.

[@logiclust]

they should start the game with PKs and that outcome becomes the tie-breaker. or flip a coin. PKs are a dumb way to end a match

[@paritdoshi9836]

I really don’t like Frank’s take sometimes on a topic! He does not think before he says something!

[@ricky6539]

England would definitely be out of the Euros went straight to penalties

[@aidenroqz]

So there's more pressure to play for Liverpool than to play for your national team and represent your country, sure Stevie. Your Liverpool bias doesn't show.

[@lukenuttall5794]

He should be number 2 after giroud as the rest arent even french theyre african 😂

[@ahmadjomaa8675]

Giroud is Italian

[@flexino7639]

By that logic, Griezmann is Portuguese

[@ME-lc2zg]

Then how are the copa america teams going to adjust to the world cup format? That was silly from the organisers.

[@piggy8761]

Are you clueless? This is how its been for years buddy Everyone knows the rules Argentina brazil know that the copa has no extra time until the final, and in the WC has extra time each round 😂😂nothing new for them to “adjust” to

[@ME-lc2zg]

@piggy8761 yeah for sure I was clueless, I thought it was a sudden change.

[@piggy8761]

@@ME-lc2zg Clueless is too harsh More like unaware, sorry 😅 well now ya know

[@mohameddiallo11]

Grizou is the best french player in the national team ever

[@jonpool9030]

Platini was better

[@piggy8761]

No

[@benjaminfranklin9967]

Shaka is the perfect example that these analysts don't watch the games, they already have a perception of players, maybe they pay them to hype players. Nicole Williams in this tournament have been head and shoulders above yamal. Crazy

[@kylesenninger8542]

Mullets are in Frank, sorry champ

[@johanngrant]

Frank is a hater and a big hypocrite one minute the euros are better than the world cup next minute pele is the goat because he won three world cups from the same guy who says the world cup is bot as good as the euros 😅

[@palatialslumlord4938]

Dugarry, Djorkaeff & Lizarazu get dropped immediately.

[@gkgam3r]

Euro 2000 France squad: I drop Candela, Lizarazu, Djorakaeff, Leboeuf, Dugarry, Rame, without even thinking about it. I gotta think about Desailly, Wiltord and Karembeu but they were still good in 2000.

[@Romans8-9]

Wiltord was a sub in Euro 2000, I don't even remember Karembeu playing in the tournament. Djorkaeff was still class and was in the starting XI every game.

[@tariqomer4678]

​@@Romans8-9Out of all the French forwards in 1998 the only one I had liked was Djorkaeff. Guivarc'h was... abysmal.

[@tytyty]

didnt watch the video because espn is painful to watch sometimes. yes, griezmann is a french legend

[@Sajdar85]

2000 and 2024 combined French team Maignan Thuram Desailly Blanc Lizarazu Vieira Kante Pires Zidane Mbappe Henry

[@tariqomer4678]

Nobody can argue with that. Probably

[@fanboy7181]

Euro 2000 players in current french squad Maignan Thuram Desailly Blanc Theo Hernandez Kante Vieira Zidane Henry Mbappe Griezman/dembele

[@ashleythomas4112]

Dembele absolutely not.

[@fanboy7181]

@@ashleythomas4112 he is a amazing playmaker like griezman

[@batterystore2932]

Stevie with a banger! Scotland never had a golden generation. 🤣

[@DaveMartinAU]

Most awkward extratime ever

[@darrenmcclellan9869]

Griesman is probably the last of the true Libero players going. It can be argued that France builds the team around him. He’s over the entire pitch. Say what you want about Mbappe, he’s become a dynamic distraction for defenders as of late and not much else.

[@p90bridge]

What does libero mean to you?

[@bzizou5966]

If you want a good laugh, I dare you to look up their stats. Only Stevie would be able to start for a mid table team in modern football, the others would be playing on premiership or mls somewhere. Frank, Burley they were average at best!

[@samukakonneh]

These guys are serious. They are all going withe hype. How do you not start Musiala? The guy is already world class. And Guler? He's sure outperforming Yamal. Doesnt take away from the fact that Yamal has been fantastic. Start Musiala, Beach Nico, drop Guler and sell Yamal

[@Royale0055]

Arda Guler outperforming Lamine Yamal in what???

[@omarbautista541]

I think he gets hate because he isnt black

[@g00nther]

Drop Low Block, High Block, xGs

[@user-nz8xd3wi1d]

He's good not great. He's not an all time anything. Let's stop with the hyperbole pls.

[@RafaelHemzaAbreu-uw4kc]

Without him, France would remain the same size since the last victory with Zidane, the truth is that Griezmann makes the team play, including Mbappe

[@user-nz8xd3wi1d]

@RafaelHemzaAbreu-uw4kc Sorry, but I don't see it. I mean, he's a really good player, influential, no doubt, but he's not the reason that French team has had it's success. You mention Zidane, but you can't compare his influence to what Zidane was for that national side at the time. Remove him, play someone else, and they'd still have had the chance to be just as successful. He's not an all-time great of France. Unsung Hero, but not an all time great

[@RafaelHemzaAbreu-uw4kc]

​@@user-nz8xd3wi1d You're wrong friend, without Griezmann France would fall in the round of 16 of the 2016 Euro, would fall against Uruguay, Belgium and perhaps not even win the final against Croatia in the '18 Cup and in 2022 the team wouldn't get past England in the quarterfinals, much less in Morocco in the semi, in these games his work rates and decisive assists made the time reach the final. Furthermore, how can Zidane be more influential if he has fewer goals, fewer assists, fewer games, fewer Euro+World Cup games and fewer goals in knockout stages?

[@darkknightz007E]

So Saliba is better than L. Blanc... 🤦

[@NotColin273]

He is in the France best xl

[@geralddesmarais6504]

Please remember those that came before. Platini, Giresse Tigana etc....

[@hubertagamasu6283]

Wow, these guys think winning 3 World cups (while sitting on the bench for one of them) and scoring 1000 goals (in an era of no offside or VAR) makes one a goat?😂

[@gkgam3r]

Stevie has no idea the pressure Urugayan fans are putting on their national team lmao. Liverpool fans are cute and all but please, the 80's are long gone lol.

[@bscoggs]

Griezmann plays better for France than for club... at least since he left Athletico for Barca

[@cactaceous]

Nonsense. Griezmann two seasons ago scored 17 goals and had an astounding 19 assists for Atletico de Madrid and this season he had 24 goals and 8 assists so he at 32 years old contributed to 32 goals. He has never been that good for France.

[@RafaelHemzaAbreu-uw4kc]

​@@cactaceouseuro 2016, 6 gols 2 assistências, copa 18, 4 gols, 3 assistências, copa 22, best cam

[@cactaceous]

@@RafaelHemzaAbreu-uw4kc El argumento inicial es desde que se fue del Atleti al Barcelona. Eso fue en el verano del 2019. La Euro 16 y el Mundial 18 no cuentan para la conversación. Estaba aún en el Atleti. Debéis mantenerte en tópico.

[@RafaelHemzaAbreu-uw4kc]

​@@cactaceous but he always paid off and a lot in France

[@logiclust]

i didn't like ZZ but he was better than Gman

[@GreedyGrom]

No way.

[@regalbanks6905]

I been accepted that Wayne gets all the girls. But realistically, to deal with that many women and to never come across a crazy looney, a vicious golddigger, or some sort of turmoil from a woman is just not possible.

[@OwusuAntwiErnest-zy3qv]

Griezmann is slowing the french game he should be out the next game

[@v0n1b0]

"One v one"

[@adtastic1533]

He's a good, not a great. Can't lace Thierry Henry's boots IMHO

[@cbarron5604]

Top 15

[@scottmensah5702]

I will Start nico Williams bench musiala sell yamel drop Arda guler

[@TheJMT2012]

Hernandez over lizarazu? No way

[@tariqomer4678]

I understand it. To me, Lizarazu is overrated

[@isaacmensahboadu9218]

Frank knows nothing about football he wants to take out Blanc and disially for saliba and the umpacopano 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[@berg1287]

I was shocked when he said that, may be 2 or 3 players will get in the 2000 france 🇫🇷 team

[@brunoblatief]

France should have gotten Payet to replace Pogba

[@tariqomer4678]

Payet is finished

[@brunoblatief]

@@tariqomer4678 Brazil is finished lol

[@tariqomer4678]

@@brunoblatief Who mentioned Brazil? Payet plays there but he is woeful even in Vasco de Gama

[@zemprelo]

He is top 7 for sure: Mbappe, Henry, Trezeguet, Papin, Benzema, Fontaine, for sure ahead of Griezman, he is ahead of giroud although Giroud is the record holder for most goals with the national team. But Griezman a lot of times played either on the wing or behind the striker as a false 9 or 10

[@KennethStBrice]

Lol Griezmann more critical to the World Cup win than Mbappe. EASILY. Even in the last one, he was better until the final

[@Sam-fq5qu]

Where tf is Zidane?

[@zemprelo]

@@Sam-fq5qu Zidane was not a forward, Platini wasn’t a forward either. Pay attention to the question

[@JarrettMehldau]

​@@zempreloWhere's Ribery?

[@zemprelo]

@@JarrettMehldau Ribery was not a forward, pay attention to the question