In search of redemption! Joao Félix, the most decisive factor for Barça in the Champions League
WILL THE PORTUGUESE MANAGE TO BE KEY AGAINST NAPLES?
JoãOr Félix has had a performance that could be cataloged like irregular. The Portuguese, after his arrival in the past market estival via pertinent loan of the Athletic of Madrid, hardly enfundó the elastic Barcelona began to have remarkable performances. Nevertheless, it arrived a moment of the campaign in which it crossed a big drought goleadora that, added to an injury of ankle that had and to the ‘subidón’ in his level of game of the that enjoyed recently Ferran Torres, condemned him to not having, by the moment, a safe square in the diagram title of Xavi Hernández, although it has not left to add minutes of game, since it has seen 1768′ in what it goes of season.
Now, when the Catalan picture is to the doors to confront the duel in front of the corresponding Naples to the turn of the eighth of final of the UEFA Champions League, series that at present is empatada 1-1, the exjugador of the SL Benfica finds in front of an opportunity to show his cost in a crossing where the Barcelonan cast needs that the players with label of stellar take a step forward necessary. In this sense, the luso probably see minutes of action in a commitment framed in a competition where he has known erigirse like one of the names stood out of the combined culé, estadísticamente speaking.
The numbers of Joãor Félix in the Champions League with the Barça
The native of Viseu has added eight goals and five assistances in 32 parties contested with the elastic Barcelona. Nevertheless, the data that results especially striking is that of these eight targets, that by the way position it like the third better goleador of the cast of the City Condal, behind Lewandowski (18) and Ferran Torres (11), three of them have been in the League of Champions, turning it into the maximum goleador of the FC Barcelona in this contest, empatado in the peak of this register with the ‘Shark’.
But it is not only this, the Portuguese, in addition to his innegable statistical contribution, has served like a species of ‘talisman’ for the Barça. In the meetings in which it has started like titling (4), the Barcelona group has finished imposing with solvency in all they. However, in the parties in which it has gone out from the bench, the club or has lost (1-0 against the Shakhtar and 3-2 against the Amberes) or has empatado, as it was the case of the 1-1 in front of the Naples.
It will be necessary to see if Xavi Hernández decides to include him in the eleven headline in the clash in front of the ‘Partenopeos’, remembering that since it returned of his injury has been headline in two of the four parties contested. Nevertheless, in any of these meetings has contested more than 70 minutes, which is a tendency that has showed enough along the season. In the 32 duels that has contested in all the different competitions, hardly has added the 90 minutes in three occasions, all in LaLiga, without having it attained in the Champions. Equally, it will be necessary to value if the Portuguese receives the opportunity and takes advantage of it, turning into a key player in the duel in front of the napolitanos and winning more leadership so that the Barça consider to bet by him in the next market estival.
