The Portuguese striker Joao Felix, which faces its second season in the Atlético de Madrid After a bittersweet first campaign, he began to sharpen his unchecks on Thursday afternoon in his first training session with the group this preseason, in the second session of the day in Los Angeles de San Rafael (Segovia).
Joined the group, along with the English side Kieran trippier and the central Montenegrin Stefan savicAs the three of them started the morning in the gym after arriving yesterday after the matches of their national teams, this Thursday afternoon of double session had the undisputed prominence of the ball.
In it, it was possible to see exercises designed to seek the unchecking of the forwards, among them the young Portuguese midfielder of 20 years, still without the precision in the shot that he will have to acquire with the advance of the preparation.
In addition to the games in a reduced field, in some moments it was possible to intuit an eleven in which, saving the different moments of preparation of each player, were the Croatian Sime Vrsaljko, the Uruguayan Jose Maria Gimenez, Brazilians Felipe Monteiro and Renan Lodi in defence; the belgian Yannick Carrasco, the Ghanaian Thomas Partey, Saúl Ñíguez and Koke Resurrección in the center of the field; and Alvaro Morata with the Argentine Angel Correa on point.
Atlético continues without being able to count on the Spanish-Brazilian Diego Costa and the colombian Santiago Arias, who remain in isolation at their homes after having tested positive for coronavirus during the holidays.
Once their week of preparation in the Segovian mountains concludes, the rojiblanco team will pass through Madrid before leaving for Cádiz to dispute the Ramón de Carranza Trophy against the Cádiz team on Tuesday 15.