João Félix monopolized all the spotlights of the Barça-Atlético de Madrid. First, for giving the winning goal to the Barça team and vindicating himself against what was his team until this summer. Second, for being involved in a clash with the Colchonero defender, José María Giménez, during the first half of the confrontation between Xavi's team and Simeone's team yesterday in Montjuïc.
The action took place in a corner in favor of the red and white team. The Uruguayan centre-back pushed the Portuguese player off of him and he fell to the ground. Giménez reproached his former teammate for his attitude. Next to him, Griezmann helped 'Menino' to stand up. “You hit me, you hit me,” João Félix then told the Uruguayan footballer.
“Do you want to fight or what? Yes, do you want to fight?" Giménez snapped at the Blaugrana '14', after the match referee, Sánchez Martínez, intervened to calm the situation. Koke also wanted to make peace and warned the Uruguayan that he could be sent off if He continued with that attitude: "Have you seen? He's trying to get you to see the second one, don't worry," the Atlético de Madrid captain told him, as captured by the Movistar cameras.
João Félix celebrated the 1-0 by climbing onto the billboards of the Montjuïc stadium and opening his arms to the culé fans. However, the forward also did the same with the Atlético de Madrid fans who had traveled to Barcelona, blowing them a kiss when he recovered his position to resume the game.
The Portuguese player explained after the match that the celebration was “spontaneous.” “You get into the heat of the game, it was like a relief for everything I have experienced mainly in the last summer. Only the people close to me know what it has been like, my family above all, it has been a relief for them," the Portuguese commented on the matter.
"And the celebration? I think he wanted to demonstrate his football in the heat. He is human. But for us it is good news that he is rebellious against his former team," said Xavi Hernández in the press conference after the match against Simeone's men. .
Félix clarified that he gets along well with “almost all” of the Atlético players after the duel and that they “know that I have nothing against them.” “I have a good relationship with almost everyone. I love you very much and I wish you the best. In the end they have been my companions, I have spent more time with them than with my family and I wish them to do very well, except against us,” he explained.
