Joao Felix showed again on Tuesday, in front of the Liverpool, his best version. The one that he glimpsed in Milan and that he corroborated against Barcelona, showing that he is called to be a differential player in the Atlético de Madrid.
There are already three consecutive games, and against great rivals, in which the Portuguese player He has taken that step forward that has been asked of him for a long time. The one who started giving a year ago, with decisive performances, until an ankle injury hampered his performance throughout the course, to the point that he had to undergo surgery once the season was over.
Those annoyances did not reveal the best version of Joao, that he played with pain in practically the entire season, making efforts to play despite being touched, something that he even publicly acknowledged Diego Simeone. That got him to the bench, but he always tried to contribute when he jumped on the grass.
But that is already past, because the Portuguese has already freed himself from those sensations and, with it, his best football is coming to light, although this course, after reappearing, had the setback of the expulsion that he suffered against Athletic and that caused him two games of sanction.
He reappeared in Milan, where he was key for Atlético to achieve the comeback. Against Barcelona he moved with ease, driving the Barça defense crazy in many moments and starting the play of the goal of Lemar, the first of the night. And against Liverpool, more of the same in the second goal of Griezmann, with which he is proving to have a great connection despite the fact that Tuesday was the first time that both were starters and that before they had practically not coincided on the field of play.
Joao Félix goes to more. You just have to see him in the field. How it moves, how it enjoys, how it combines … Cholo knows it. And that is why, despite the enormous competition that exists in the mattress attack, it has given him the title in the two important last appointments of Atlético.
Fought with the goal
Despite the obvious improvement of Joao Félix, the goal continues to resist him. Something that should always be of concern and more so in the case of a footballer with a profile as offensive as his and who has already shown that he is easy to see the door.
To find the last goal of the Portuguese with Atlético you have to go back to February 28, when he scored against Villarreal in La Cerámica, with a celebration that caused controversy, although it was clear that the claim dedication went to his friend Lodi, with whom he maintained a healthy ‘pique’.
Since then he has not seen the door. Almost eight months have passed. A long time for a player like him. In this time he has played 17 games and has not made a single ‘target’. Now, with the confidence recovered and once again being decisive, Joao Félix, only 21 years old, let’s not forget, points to Real Sociedad.
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