DBasia.news – Atletico Madrid striker Joao Felix is expected to continue defending the club and become the backbone in the long run. That hope was conveyed by Diego Simeone, Atletico’s coach.
Joao Felix himself was brought in by Atletico Madrid earlier last season from Benfica with a transfer value of 126 million euros. His arrival at Estadio Wanda Metropolitano made him the club’s most expensive recruitment.
However, in his first season in the Spanish League. The Portuguese soccer player had difficulty finding his best performance. Then, he suffered a fairly serious injury, which made his appearance increasingly plummeted.
So Joao Felix began to doubt his career with Atletico Madrid. However, after recovering from injury. The player has improved and could train with his team-mates.
Then, Diego Simeone hopes he can be a key player to help the club win in the remaining games this season.
The manager also made sure that he would continue to evaluate the young player in training sessions and see what’s best. The match against Villarreal or Liverpool the player was rated at a good level.
For him he has been in a great season, then experienced an injury, he said when recovering of course the player will not be the same. But with a pause due to a pandemic and then the competition resumed. Plus he is also young and Simeone hopes that Joao Felix can be a key player in the team.
Before the pandemic, Joao Felix has played 20 league games for Atletico Madrid with 4 goals, 1 assist and 5 yellow cards. In the Champions League, he has played 5 matches by scoring 2 goals and 1 assist. Then at Supercopa de Espana, he has played 2 matches.