FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Champions League - Round of 16 First Leg - Atletico Madrid v Chelsea - Arena Nationala, Bucharest, Romania - February 23, 2021 Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone Inquam Photos via REUTERS/Octav Ganea
VILA-REAL, Spain (Reuters) - Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone heaped praised on Joao Felix after the 21-year-old responded to being benched for Sunday's match at Villarreal by scoring as a substitute to seal a badly-needed 2-0 win in La Liga.
Atletico's 126-million-euro ($152 million) forward was excluded from the starting lineup for the second time in three matches and had been largely ineffective when he did start in Tuesday's 1-0 defeat to Chelsea in the Champions League.
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