Joao Felix: “With this tactic we always have four or five players in the area” – Limitations

Joao Felix scored one of the goals in the defeat (0-6) against Luxembourg, in the second qualifying match for the European Championship. The Portuguese forward testified to the strength of Roberto Martinez’s side. “We were good. We came in strong. We made the game easy. When we came in like that we ended up controlling almost the whole game. In the second half we weren’t as good, but the first was totally ours,” he stressed. Sport TV then addressed the fact that the team put multiple men in the end zone. “The more people up front the better. For me and the other strikers. We have more support and passing options. With this tactic we always have four or five players in the area, which is good and we end up scoring a lot of goals,” he confirmed. For the player who is lining up on loan at Chelsea.

Felix also spoke about his personal moment, less than three months after ending his relationship with the Blues.

“I work every day to be good and help the team. I always do my best for things to go well. When things don’t go well… it’s football. I’m here to develop, learn and improve”, he repeated.

Then, on Sport TV, João Félix confirmed that it was the corner team that facilitated the duel with Luxembourg, and not the other way around. “Yes, we knew it was going to be complicated, more complicated than Liechtenstein, but how did we make the game easy. We started strong, scored goals very early on, and from then on the game became completely different. We controlled the game,” he said.

How are you personally? Climax the way you want?

“I do my job. I train every day to be better, to be able to play for the team, to bring joy to myself, my family, my friends and my colleagues, and I do what I’ve always done, work. When things have to go out they go out, when they don’t go out they don’t go out.”

Euro’2024 victory?

“Yes, there is still a long way to go, we are in the qualifiers, but this is what we want, to give the Portuguese people the joy, to ourselves that we deserve after the way we left the World Cup. We must follow this path,” he noted.

Joao Félix also commented on the match at 11pm, where he also talked about the goals scored by his brother Hugo Félix for the Under-19s. “We dominated the entire first half. In the second they changed the system, it confused us a little more. But the match was already decided in the first half, and we entered strongly, with a fourth goal, and when we entered like that after that, it’s hard to stop,” he highlighted.

New game system

“The team is fine, they are enjoying the system, the idea of ​​the game. Even though there are five defenders, it doesn’t mean that you have to defend, as it is supposed to. The guys are enjoying it, we are fine, we arrived with a lot of defenders. People in the area, they score a lot of goals I’m used to it because at Chelsea I play as well, either on the left or in the middle, but the dynamics are good, the whole team is connected and we’re fine.”

On a personal level

“I always do my job, I try to do better. If things don’t work out later, that’s football. But I work every day to improve, to be better and that’s what I have to do.”

Brother U19 goals

He concluded, “Two goals are important for them to go to the European Championship. The first I did not see, I was still traveling here, but the second goal I was already watching the match,” he said.