The boss of Atletico Madrid, Diego Simeone, said that he “wanted to believe” that the Var saw Julian Alvarez touching the ball twice during the dramatic defeat of last night’s pull-up against Real Madrid in the Champions League.
Alvarez was considered to have kicked the ball on his standing foot and the kick was excluded, although he was not immediately clear from the reruns.
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With Marcos Llorente also disappeared for Atletico, as well as Lucas Vazquez for Madrid, he was left to Antonio Rudiger to press the winning penalty in front of Jan Oblak to send the men of Carlo Ancelotti to a meeting in the quarter -finals with Arsenal.
Simeone’s Decision of Questions
It was the sentence of Alvarez who dominated the post-match and Simeone conversation was not convinced that it was the right call.
“I just saw the images, the referee says that Julián touches the ball with his support leg, but the ball does not move,” he said. “It’s questionable, whether it is an objective or not. But I am proud of my players, I am honestly happy, because we have contributed exemplary.
“When Julián kicks [the penalty]The ball does not even move a little. I imagine that they called the Var and saw that he touched it. I want to believe that they will have seen that he touched it. »»
Atleti won 1-0 in the night thanks to the goal of Conor Gallagher in the first minute, but could not find a second during an energy but low quality game.
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Diego Simeone reacts to the drama of Julian Alvarez after the release of Atletico Madrid in the Champions League.
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Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois believed that the right decision had been made concerning Alvarez’s kick and him and his teammates quickly asserted their referee on the Szymon Marciniak land.
“I felt that he had touched the ball twice and I said to the referee,” said the Belgian. “It’s not easy to see this.”
However, he was not impressed by Simeone questioning the integrity of the Var.
“For UEFA, it’s clear. I’m fed up with this victimity, always crying like that. The referees do not want to benefit from one team or another in Spain or Europe, for them, it was clear. With technology, in the Var room, they saw it clearly, they have a lot of cameras and many images. »»
