In the just-concluded 2021-2022 Champions League round of sixteen matches, Atletico beat Manchester United to the quarterfinals with a slight advantage of 2-1 on aggregate, and the 22-year-old Portuguese youngster Felix, known as C Ronaldo's successor, scored 1 goal in the first leg, and it was with this goal that he sent the national team big brother C Ronaldo home, but from the national team level, Phoenix is still the younger brother.
On 24 February, the day the two sides played each other in the first leg, the young Felix took the lead for Atletico in the sixth minute of the opening. Felix's header was Atletico's first and last shot of the match, in addition to this time, Vrsariko's header hit the crossbar after hitting Lindelof in the 45th minute, and Griezmann's shot hit the crossbar again in the 87th minute. If it weren't for atletico's bad luck in both times, the contest between the two sides might have lost suspense in the first leg, and in the end, Manchester United managed to pull the suspense to the second leg thanks to Erlanga's goal in the 79th minute.
Coming to the second leg of the game at Old Trafford, pre-match fans widely believed that Ronaldo, who scored a hat-trick in the weekend league and scored a goal in his personal history, will continue to stage a good play. Because in the previous 5 encounters with Cristiano Ronaldo, Simeone's Atletico madrid have all been eliminated, especially in the 16-17 and 18-19 seasons. In those two seasons, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in the second leg against Atletico, and Cristiano Ronaldo became Atletico's biggest nemesis in the Champions League journey. Only this time luck did not stand on the side of C Ronaldo again, in this game, C Ronaldo shot 0 straight, completely invisible, which not only has Atletico's targeted tactical arrangement, but also manchester United manager Lonnick's self-destruction martial arts.
In the second leg with Atletico Madrid, Ronaldo almost did not play any role, C Ronaldo, who was positioned as a goalkeeper, became a passer, while B Fei, who was supposed to deliver cannonballs to C Ronaldo, became the main attacker, and we did not see the meaning of Manle winning at all. In fact, this can also be seen through the data of C Ronaldo's game, 35 passes, 3 passes, 7 confrontations and 0 shots are enough to show that C Ronaldo is not the core of the tactics in this game, and has completely become a green leaf wingman. This is the first time in Ronaldo's career that he has fallen into the round of 16 for three consecutive seasons, which is similar to his previous Champions League three consecutive performances, which really has to make people sigh, the hero is late!
With the aging of C Ronaldo, the Portuguese team will inevitably have a person to carry the team's offensive banner in the future, and the Portuguese team must also have a new No. 7 to lead the team to continue to move forward, but this candidate is Felix, who eliminated C Ronaldo. Born in 1999, Felix is 22 years old this year, 15 years younger than C Ronaldo, he once won the 2019 Golden Boy Award, and followed the Portuguese national team to win the 2019 European League championship, throughout C Ronaldo's entire career has only won 2 national team championships, compared with C Ronaldo, Felix is too lucky. Last season, the 21-year-old Felix helped Atletico win la Liga as a mainstay, and Atletico star Paul Futre said in a recent interview that Felix will grow into atletico's captain in the future.
Felix is the first Portuguese player to score a goal for Manchester United after Cristiano Ronaldo scored against Manchester United in 2018, and with his outstanding performance in February, he won the official Atletico Player of the Month Award, all of which inspired him to learn from his idol and continue to improve. Felix now shows more on the pitch is the spirituality of young players, and the leadership temperament is not comparable to C Ronaldo for the time being, but the young little Luo is still a player with a flowing personality and a fancy style, only after 10 years of precipitation to have the current spiritual attributes, and it is only a matter of time before Felix wants to become the leader of Portugal in the future.