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Alex Kirkland
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Rodrigo Faez
Mar 12, 2025, 08:19 PM ET
Diego Simeone wondered the verdict to disallow Julián Álvarez’s a very powerful penalty in Actual Madrid’s Champions League shootout win over Atlético Madrid, insisting “the ball does not transfer” after VAR determined the ahead had kicked the ball two times.
The round-of-16 tie completed 2-2 on mixture on Wednesday, after Conor Gallagher’s early function gave Atlético a 1-0 win on the Metropolitano to pressure overtime.
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Within the shootout, Kylian Mbappé, Jude Bellingham, Fede Valverde and Antonio Rüdiger all transformed for Actual. Álvarez’s penalty was once dominated out after the VAR deemed that the Argentina world had touched the ball with each toes as he slipped when hanging the ball.
“I have simply noticed the pictures, the referee says Julián touches the ball along with his supporting leg, however the ball does not transfer,” Simeone mentioned in his post-match information convention. “That is controversial, whether or not it was once a function or now not. However I am pleased with my avid gamers, I am in truth satisfied, as a result of we competed in an exemplary method.”
Actual Madrid will now play Arsenal within the quarterfinals, with the primary leg on April 8, and the go back on April 16.
Atlético ruled a lot of Wednesday’s sport, and Simeone mentioned he was once “at peace” with the outcome, as a result of “the group gave the whole lot.”
“When Julián kicks [the penalty], the ball does not even transfer a bit of,” Simeone mentioned. “I consider that they known as the VAR and noticed that he touched it. I wish to imagine that they’re going to have noticed that he touched it.”
Simeone then again and again challenged reporters within the information convention to “lift your hand” in the event that they concept Álvarez’s penalty will have to had been disallowed.
Julián Álvarez had a penalty dominated out within the shootout in Atlético Madrid’s loss to Actual Madrid within the Champions League. Getty Photographs
“I felt that he touched the ball two times and I informed the referee,” Actual goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois mentioned. “It isn’t simple to look that. It was once a bit of of unhealthy good fortune.”
When informed of Simeone’s feedback, Courtois added: “For UEFA, it is transparent. I am unwell of this victimhood, at all times crying about such things as this. Referees do not wish to receive advantages one group or some other in Spain or in Europe, for them it was once transparent. With the generation, within the VAR room they noticed it obviously, they have got numerous cameras and numerous pictures.”
“It appears to me like he touches it along with his left foot,” trainer Carlo Ancelotti agreed. “[Penalties] are a lottery, heads or tails. It got here up heads nowadays. Atletico cross out with their heads top.”
Ancelotti printed that he’d deliberate to permit younger ahead Endrick to take the 5th and decisive spot kick, sooner than choosing Rüdiger, who scored.
“We had doubts between Endrick and Rüdiger,” Ancelotti mentioned. “I noticed Endrick’s face, and I assumed ‘higher Rüdiger’!”
