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JOAO FÉLIX PLAYED A 'ROUND' MATCH

Joao Félix 'imitated' Xavi before receiving the pass in his 'assist' to Lewandowski

Published:17/09/2023 - 22:10h

Updated:17/09/2023 - 22:14h

One of the names that stood out in FC Barcelona's win against Betis was João Félix. The Portuguese had his first 'big night' with the team, scoring a goal, but beyond that, the Portuguese grabbed attention by executing a great technical gesture that resulted in Barça's second goal

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JoãOr Félix already has begun to justify the confidence deposited by Xavi Hernández and the Barça when bringing it as yielded in the recently culminated market estival. This is something that the Portuguese longed for, since from small had dreamed with playing in the FC Barcelona, and finally his dream has done reality.

The ex of Chelsea, the one who came of a situation complicated in the Athletic of Madrid, because it did not explain in the dynamic 'rojiblanca' and, apparently, was a person no grata, has had in his arrival to the City Condal an authentic blessing and his best football has begun to surface. This showy game that seduced to all in the SL Benfica and that seemed to have lost in the Athletic, supposedly because of the defensive style of the team, has gone back to shine. In the Barça, with an approach obviously more offensive, the '14' has given a 'master class'.

JoãOr Félix is recovering feelings

After a little notable debut, in which only it played 10 minutes against Osasuna, and an interval with the selection of Portugal, where fits to stand out that it marked a very good target in the goleada in front of Luxembourg by 0-9, Xavi Hernández gave him his first opportunity like headline and Joãor Félix knew to take advantage of it to the maximum.

In this occasion, the Portuguese showed creative and extremely dangerous in the last three chambers of field. It marked an authentic golazo after receiving a centre measured to the area by part of Oriol Romeu. Although his first attempt to control the spherical with an acrobatic movement was not effective, in the second played and with very little angle of finish, the luso attained to put the 1-0 for the venues.

The Portuguese was in way 'playmaker'

One of the curiosities of the meeting was born in the second so much of the Barça, that arose of the recovery and offensive incursion of Andreas Christensen and his back pass to to the ex of the Benfica. The remarkable was the skill that showed the Portuguese when leaving happen the ball between his legs so that Robert Lewandowski could win him the backs to the defensive line and convert the second so much of the night in the Montjuïc.

This annotation was possible to a large extent thanks to the facet of 'playmaker' that saw him to Joãor Félix in the duel. Before giving this 'assistance', can him observe constantly looking for alternative to continue the played, in spite of not having of the possession of the spherical. In this research of possible receptors found to the 'artilleryman' Polish and, after seeing it in more than an occasion, in spite of being of backs to the arch and with pair of defenders marking it, attained to invent the exceptional manoeuvre to leave follow the pass of the Danish and that the ex of the Bayern Munich invoiceed the 2-0.

It imitated Joãor Félix to Xavi?

This does not do more than remembering the style of game that Xavi Hernández, his current trainer, was used to to deploy in thefield . Before receiving the balloon, the technician of Terrassa was used to to make these gestures to see constantly to his around to have a panoramic vision of the terrain of game and a clear reference of who could be the receptor of his pass or the next action to make. In the world of the football, this knows as 'the radar of Xavi'.

As it explains the journalist Jordi Cardero, the day before the duel, the technician egarense and Joãor Félix had a session of work individualizada in which they analysed several videos. In these metrajes, the exentrenador of the To the Saad showed him to the Portuguese how wanted to that it developed his game, urging him to "live in the square". Although at first sight this seemed complicated, since the luso is accustomed to look for a lot the ball and go out constantly of the zone in which Xavi asked him that it was, in this duel kept in this plot of the terrain and managed to perfection, deploying a big game.

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