The best João Félix returns to the scene of his first crime in Champions. The Portuguese footballer wants to complete a fantastic week against a Lokomotiv who last season showed that he has taken the measure. The bar is high, since in his last match in the Champions League he left a stellar performance with a double against Salzburg that allows Atlético to get the group back on track if they manage to win in Russia. In between, another came league double against Osasuna to make it clear that the 20-year-old is sweet.
Both Simeone and his colleagues know that it is essential find João Félix participatory, decisive in the last meters and sensational that is being seen from the beginning of the course to be able to win at the Lokomotiv stadium. Against Granada in the league debut it was clear that he wanted to leave behind a first year of acclimatization, with brushstrokes of a very high level, but very intermittent, to achieve the continuity that Simeone has asked for so much. In total, João Félix has scored five goals in eight games so far this year and is already beginning to see the goal as big as he did at Benfica.
Great numbers that are magnified in the Champions League, since since '7' made his debut in the competition in 2018 with Benfica (a single match in the group stage) has scored five goals in nine games (at Atleti one every 121 minutes). Two of them to Lokomotiv, leaving their notch in the first leg and in the second leg and getting their first scorer in the maximum continental competition in the same stadium that they will tread again today (October 1, 2019). “The Champions League is where I like to play the most” João Félix indicated after his exhibition against Salzburg. Today he wants to show again that competition and Lokomotiv are his favorite combination.