Atlético de Madrid makes life difficult in the Champions League. Not so much for the 27th position that it occupies in the classification, which would mean its direct elimination, but for the two defeats it has added in just three games. Against Lille, until the first goal from the French, it was a great game for the Simeones, although erratic in the definition. But the defensive facilities and the alarming lack of response capacity ended up condemning the red and whites.
A meeting that stops Simeone explains in a very simple way: the lack of success of his team and the surreal penalty indicated by the Italian Guida, which meant the 1-2 in favor of the Gauls. “Before the referee’s brutal error, we did not have the necessary forcefulness and this competition does not forgive you,” to which he added that they are in a “very complicated moment” in the Champions League, “probably with fewer options.”
Regarding the controversial play, the Argentine coach shares the general opinion: incomprehension. «I hope we find something to say that it was a penalty. First he said it was a hand, after Koke had pushed one… -he maintained-. There’s nothing, guys. “Hopefully we can see something, whether UEFA or I don’t know who explains it.”
A cloud Nor was he able to explain the reasons that led the Italian to whistle and the VAR not to intervene in the play. «Hello, but in the end I don’t know what happened. Nobody understands it, I hope he does. It’s incredible,” criticized the Slovenian, who did not want to hide behind this action to explain Atlético’s defeat: “We are not going to complain either.. “It has harmed us, but if we had done the work we had to do, this mistake could not have punished us.”
The red and white goalkeeper, always with a high tone of self-criticism, was no less after the defeat against Lille. Asked about the margin of error that Atlético still enjoys, having five games ahead, he maintained that “after losing, you always say it. Still, still… But today we had to win and we didn’t. Of course there are games left and games to be won, but We said the same thing after Lisbon».
Another factor to take into account when analyzing the match is the atmosphere of the Metropolitano, orphaned of its entertainment stands due to the decision of the Atlético Front as a protest against the club. Asked how he experienced it from his bench, Simeone took a few seconds to reflect and, half embarrassed and with the handbrake on, declared: “As it has been experienced, as everyone has seen.”
