Atletico Madrid are nonetheless reeling from their heartbreaking Champions League exit by the hands of Actual Madrid on Wednesday. They bowed out of the competitors after a 4-2 penalty shoot-out defeat that had a number of controversy, with the large second seeing Julian Alvarez’s profitable effort dominated out by VAR for a double-touch.
Diego Simeone remains to be offended in regards to the incident three days on, and the identical will be stated for Atleti president Enrique Cerezo, who directed his fury in the direction of VAR, which he has by no means been in favour of, as per Diario AS.
“Till Wednesday evening we have been prepared for the three competitions: Champions League, Copa del Rey and La Liga. However that day, an incident with an aparto, a system or a terrifying instrument, which could be very dangerous, that’s good for nothing greater than to hurt groups and that’s known as VAR, as a result of they truncated one of many biggest illusions for us, which was to proceed within the Champions League.
“I don’t like VAR, but it surely’s not that I say it now, I’ve all the time stated it. I don’t criticise the VAR for the error the opposite day. As a result of it’s not a mistake by the referee, it’s a VAR error, which I don’t know the place they noticed the ball contact the identical leg twice on a participant’s leg. VAR is a conflictive instrument, which isn’t protected and above all, all of us consider that it was dropped at make soccer fairer and I consider that it has been dropped at make it extra unfair.”
There has definitely been loads of controversy surrounding Alvarez’s penalty, however Atleti can not do something about it now. They need to channel their frustration into performances on the pitch, and that should begin with Sunday’s showdown conflict towards Barcelona on the Metropolitano.