The Atlético de Madrid coach spoke after the draw against the meringues
“It can be yellow,” he told Ángel Correa about the red
Diego Simeone, coach of Atlético de Madridassured this Saturday that if a player is sent off due to the action of Ángel Correa, as happened in the derby against Real Madrid, “there would be no players left on the field” and He remarked that the contact was not “so violent” as for the 1.94 player to fall “passed out”.
“It can be yellow, but if you expel a player for that situation, there would be no players left on the field. In our case it is becoming normal and it would be good if we could all compete in the same way”, he explained first in statements to ‘Dazn’.
“A beautiful, beautiful game, like all of us who come to play here with a very strong rival, we overcame Reinildo’s injury, which is important and painful, because it is very important and we recovered from an expulsion, which can be interpreted from the referee’s vision that is close to the play of Correa’s movement, but there is also the VAR and we have the possibility of seeing that the hit or contact does not have the violence to take a player off the field. We don’t know if he called you or not. Rudiger is big, Correa is small…”, he added later at a press conference.
“This is like penalties, to what extent the play tells you if the contact is so aggressive for it to be a penalty or not. They are decisions. Once again we had to not have this type of play in our favour. We need to help so that we can all compete in the same way. And the VAR allows us to have the chance to see the play,” he added.
“They are plays that can be resolved better. We have the VAR, there are a lot of people helping and hopefully it will be better for everyonebecause we all need to compete in the best way”, continued Simeone, who recalled the expulsions that Atlético has suffered in the three most recent derbies against Real Madrid.
“Today Correa’s was understood that way. You see it. There are things that are very clear“Added the Argentine coach, who pointed out:” I believe in the people who work, I have no doubt, and there is help from the VAR. There is the VAR to have one more help to the referee who is on the field. There is the fourth official, the line… There are a lot of situations that can help, but I understand that we can also make mistakes. The coaches, the footballers, the referees made mistakes… I keep saying: thank goodness the VAR is there”.
Simeone keeps thinking “without any doubt” that Gil Manzano is a barbaric referee. “A game action does not generate any change of thought,” said Simeone, who missed that the help of the VAR “would have told him that it was not so serious.” “I don’t know if they spoke with the VAR. The contact was not so violent that a 1.94 meter person fainted and was immediately expelled,” he added.
