Atlético de Madrid suffered a tough defeat when they lost 3-1 to the Lille for the Champions League. And one of the French team’s goals came through a penalty that raised doubts due to an unclear handball from Immediately that the referee still charged Marco Guida. This caused the coach’s anger. Diego Simeonewho exploded against the judge and the OUR and was reprimanded.
El Colchonero took the lead with the goal Julian Alvarezafter pressing and resolving with a subtle definition. Afterwards, the French team equalized and were able to take the lead with the aforementioned penalty goal that generated the controversy.
In full sanction, which was given at the request of the OURyou could see the anger of Simeonewho shouted twice “They are thieves!”. The referee approached and showed the yellow card to the Cholowhose annoyance continued after the match.
At the press conference, Simeone He stated that “it was not criminal. We saw the play, it hit him in the hand and they made a mistake. I guess they thought it was Koke’s hand, I want to think so, but in the images at no time do you see that it was our hand”.
The Argentine coach, 54, added that “you have to accept it, it is part of the mistakes, but who knows what they said to the referee. They called for a penalty and the 1-2 score made the game difficult for us. He asked for what he imagined, but what he imagined did not happen. He didn’t see it, nor did those who helped him in the VAR see it. What can be done?”.
The angry face of Simeone He said it all and the tone of his responses went hand in hand with the annoyance after the defeat and that key decision by the referee: “There’s nothing, guys. Explain to me why it was criminal. Was it hand? It wasn’t a hand. Was it push? It wasn’t a push. I hope we can see something. that the UEFAwho is the one handling this, say: ‘The referee got it right and the OUR He didn’t call him because he was right.’”
”When they charge you a penalty that they did not touch with their hand… I hope that someday it turns out in our favor. These mistakes, which may appear, end up leading the game to 2 to 1. Then there is the misfortune that with two shots on goal they scored three goals,” he highlighted.
Finally, he acknowledged that “we are in a very complicated moment in the Champions. The chances are lower at the moment.”
He Atlético de Madrid He is in 27th place and is out of the Preliminary Round. There are five days left to finish this regular phase, in a format released this season of the most important club competition in Europa.
On the next day of the fight for Orejona, the Atlético Madrid will travel to France to measure himself against Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). The duel will be on Wednesday, November 6, from 4 p.m. (Argentine time).
By The Leaguehe Atlético de Madrid will visit Betisthis Sunday from 1:30 p.m. The Colchonero team is third with 20 points, four behind Real Madrid already seven of Barcelona.
