He is a quality footballer no doubt, but he seems to be carying some bad luck with him. There is that old cartoon Felix the Cat, and as most of the world superstitiously believe, black cats ‘bring’ bad luck. The cartoon character was always smiling and was always happy but this Felix is rarely smiling plus he seems to be unfortunate for the club he plays for.Joao Felix was looking for a way out of Diego Simeone’s grip at Atletico, it seemed that he found it with a move to the Premier League – however, it just seems that he is doing the same in London as he was in Madrid. Badly.The loan of the Portuguese was supposed to make the player himself and Chelsea happy, but it turned out that since he arrived in the new environment, the name of the game is not ‘victory’. The number of matches to sample from is small, but in the first four games, the former Golden Boy did not being luck to the Stamford Bridge crew. On the contrary, for now everything in London is a nightmare for him.Joao Felix is probably going to win Chelsea’s Goal of the Month competition. Because he is the only Chelsea player who has scored a goal this month. pic.twitter.com/FjsM4p39Od— SPORTbible (@sportbible) February 20, 2023 The adventure started with a red card on his debut against Fulham, continued only with a draw in another city duel with West Ham – where, admittedly, the former Benfica pearl scored his first goal – and the abyss deepened with a defeat against Southampton in the last league round. Between the two duels in the fight for points, Felix played the first match of the Champions League round of 16 in Dortmund, and was defeated there too (0-1), noting that it really was not his night, as he hit the crossbar and had another ripe opportunity to score.The only time when Graham Potter’s team won a game in 2023 was Felix was not in the team, due to the consequences of being sent off in the match with Fulham, he missed the meeting with Crystal Palace (1-0).It turned out that Joao Felix took the crisis with him to the Island, as Atletico have been doing much better without him. Since he left th Metropolitano, Los Colchoneros played eight games and suffered only one loss. Truth be told, it happened in a very demanding match, against Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of Copa del Rey in extra time (1-3), but Atleti were competitive and had the lead for a long time.##NAJAVA_MECA_7041926##In the remaining seven matches, without Felix, they did make mistakes against teams from the lower portion of the table (Almeria and Getafe 1-1 each), but they also improved significantly compared to the autumn part of the season, by defeating Levante in the cup (2-0), Valladolid (30), Osasuna, Celta and Athletic Bilbao (all 1-0) in La Liga.Diego Simeone is back to his former style. João Felix is far from being his former incredible self he was in Benfica.
