The manager of Barcelona, Hansi Flick, offered his condolences to Atletico Madrid striker, Julian Alvarez, after the Argentine penalty was controversially ruled out during a shooting defeat at Real Madrid in the middle of the week.
Ex -Manchester City’s leader fell infamous while hitting the ball. Alvarez’s effort managed to deceive Thibaut Courtois and Nestlé below the crossbar, but a VAR review revealed that Atlético’s summer hiring was unnoticed (and illegally) hit the ball twicethus discarding his effort.
After Lucas Vazquez’s subsequent Miss, Marcos Llorente’s effort turned out to be the decisive mistake as atlético crashed out of the Champions League of the hands of the rivals of his city once again. But the focus has been resolved in the decision to dismiss Alvarez’s attempt.
Flick was asked about the controversy before his side of Barcelona traveled to AthleticThe Sunday night metropolitan stadium. “What do you want me to say?” The German coach was spoiled. “It was very unfortunate. I was sorry for him. He is one of the best players, a fantastic footballer and a great scorer. I’m sorry, I repeat … but I have nothing else to say.”
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UEFA has revealed slow camera images of the incident, which seems to show that Alvarez’s foot foot gently brushed the ball before the contact with his swinging on the right boot was made. The governing body of European football even suggested that they would discuss if a future modification should be made to the laws of the game. However, nothing could decrease the rage that Diego Simeone was still boiling.
The first question that was struggled with the coach of the athletically this week inevitably dealt with the penalty debate. “I would normally respond”Barcelona“But this time the situation requires expressing my feelings of anger,” Simeone was seen.
Atlético may be out of the Champions League, but they are very much in the title of the league title. Home victory in Barcelona on Sunday would take the Capital Club Above its Catalan visitors In a three -way competitive race for the first flight of Spain, which also includes Real Madrid.
