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07th Jun 2017

WATCH: Antoine Griezmann appears to be very bitter over not winning Champions League

There's no love lost

Darragh Culhane

In case you didn’t know, Real Madrid won the Champions League on Saturday.

On their way to the final, ‘Los Blancos’Ā knocked out local rivals Atletico Madrid, an all too familiar feeling for Antoine Griezmann.

The 26-year-old has been part of a side that has been knocked out of the competition by Real Madrid for three years running, so when it was time to congratulate RaphaĆ«l Varane in the French camp, Greizmann wasn’t overly keen to take part.

Varane joined up with the international side on Tuesday after he was done celebrating in Madrid and received a warm welcome from everyone except Antoine Griezmann.

And when France manager Didier Deschamps invited the squad to congratulate Varane on his victory there was a notable lack of applause from a certain Atletico Madrid forward.

In fairness, Griezmann has had some rotten luck of late

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