Thursday, October 24, 2024, 16:57
This Thursday, Atlético de Madrid presented a formal complaint to UEFA for the controversial penalty that was awarded against them during the Champions League match against Lille and which marked the 1-2 in favor of the French team in the 74th minute. The red and white club , who denounces that the Italian Marco Guida invented the maximum penalty, cries out against a penalty that he considers non-existent and has protested in writing so that the highest European body can at least clarify why the referee punished Atlético with an erroneous decision that in the end was decisive for the defeat.
The ball hit the arm of a Lille player, Benjamin André, and Atlético considers that an alleged touch by Koke on the rival footballer would in no case be enough to award a penalty. The referee, after speaking with the person in charge of the VAR, did not go to the video to review such a decisive play after having whistled the maximum penalty. Marco Guida touched his arm on several occasions to confirm to the red and white players that he had awarded a penalty for handball, without the ball even touching Koke.
“First the referee said that it was a handball and then that Koke touched someone inside the area,” Diego Pablo Simeone revealed in a press conference after the 1-3 draw on matchday three of the Champions League. “I hope we find something to be able to say that it was a penalty, so we can stay calm,” added the Atlético coach, hours before the mattress club protested in writing to UEFA. «I hope UEFA says something, I hope they someday win in our favor because these mistakes that can happen, appear. We had the 2-2 after that and today with two shots on goal they scored three goals,” lamented Simeone.
As revealed by Atlético’s substitute goalkeeper, Juan Musso, the Argentine goalkeeper addressed Marco Guida at the end of the match and the referee assured him that he had called a penalty for handball and that the VAR later informed him that there had been a foul by Koke and For this reason he did not go to review the play on the monitor.
