Joao Felix is ​​a bomb

• Protagonist: The Unexpected Lemar

Yes, this is a pre-season friendly and then anything can happen. A summer roll can be wonderful during the holidays and then, lost the initial fierceness, a tedious routine light years from the expectations generated. Well, accepted all this, we must say that Joao Felix is ​​a bomb. That still with 19 years, an inappropriate age for anything other than partying, a whole Juventus that appeared in Stockholm with the best he has, including Cristiano Ronaldo. There was the former Madrid player called to be the protagonist of the bolus, with a stadium that fell every time the ball approached him, he did not even need to touch it - he did very little. But the star, also Portuguese, was another. [Narration and statistics (2-1)]

55 minutes were enough to offer a master's degree on the job of second striker, as it is in that role in which he shines, enjoying freedom to move throughout the attack front. What Griezmann did, in short. Joao Felix took out all his repertoire of uncheck, auction, positioning and ability with the ball to score two goals and bring delirium to Atlético fans who watched the match on television. High note, as in a whole preseason in which he has not suffered a single defeat, also for the Simeone block a week after the real fire begins.

There are many players capable of turning a good pass into a goal. There are far fewer those who do it after receiving a shipment with factory defect, let's put a Trippier center halfway up to an area of ​​the area where nobody expected that ball. But what distinguishes Joao Félix is ​​that in addition to talent and intuition he has that elf that is neither innate nor learned, it simply arises by spontaneous generation and forever overlaps soccer players who are special.

On the back of De Ligt

The Portuguese is and that is why his shot touched the fair in Lemar to sneak into the goal of Szczesny to continue to overwhelm the illusion of the athletic and the gigantic expectations placed on their present and their future.

That happened in the 24th minute. Nine later, with a Khedira goal in between from the front to liven up the wait, Felix consumed his double. On this occasion, after marking a clearing on the back of De Ligt. Lemar saw him and drew a huge pass that the Portuguese extended with soft scoring and determination of striker.

And there emerged the other protagonist mattress of the duel, a Lemar that closes a notable preseason with which to extinguish the embers of a poor first season in the Metropolitan. He announces the purpose of amending the French and does it in tune with Joao Felix. Something that, in good logic, should limit Morata and Diego Costa to fighting for a single place in eleven.

Comfortable in expectation

These were the best conclusions for a solid Athletic in general, perhaps something cracked in the defense of the front balls - the shadow of Godin will be lengthened - and suffering by the left band, in which Lodi received a courteous welcome to Europe from his compatriot Douglas Costa, by far the best of Sarri's. This new Juventus is still tender, in the process of adapting to the non-negotiable philosophy of its new coach, in which the ball at the foot prevails over the spaces.

Atletico, more comfortable to the expectation, barely suffered in the first quarter of an hour and in the final leg, when both technicians put their second units on the field - only Oblak played 90 minutes. There Juventus showed his greater staff depth, perhaps the main Achilles heel that, one more season, is intuited to what must be the Atlético de Joao Félix.

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• Joao Felix
• Kieran Trippier
• Diego Costa
• Cristiano Ronaldo
• International Soccer
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• football
• Atlético de Madrid
• Turin Juventus
• International Champions Cup

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