Atletico Madrid felt very aggrieved at their Champions League exit final season, and that feeling was heightened earlier this week when it was confirmed that the rule on “double-touch” penalties could be modified going ahead. In impact, it signifies that Julian Alvarez’s effort through the shoot-out defeat to Actual Madrid, which was controversially dominated out on the time, would now be allowed to face.
Julian Alvarez recounts Atletico Madrid penalty controversy
Alvarez and Atleti have been amazed on the determination to disallow his penalty, and that feeling has remained to his day. The Argentine striker has maintained his stance {that a} second contact can’t be perceived, as he made clear throughout a current interview with DAZN (by way of Cadena SER).
“It was a bit unfair and there was loads of anger as a result of to today we don’t know if it was two touches or not. That’s it… The video got here out, I noticed it ten million instances, particularly these days, as a result of it was in every single place. It is vitally tough to understand, it’s not possible to note.
“We had finished an amazing match, we have been so near going by means of… That every part falls down due to one thing like this harm quite a bit.”
The choice harm Atleti a lot extra as a result of it was in opposition to Actual Madrid, their bitter rivals. On the time of Alvarez’s penalty, they have been in place within the shoot-out, but it surely mattered little as they’d go on to be defeated, extending their poor file in opposition to Los Blancos within the Champions League.
Whereas it’s optimistic that clarification has arrived on the matter, it does little to assist Atleti now. They nonetheless really feel a way of injustice on the means they have been knocked out of final season’s Champions League by the hands of Actual Madrid.