Atlético Madrid lodges a formal complaint with UEFA over the penalty awarded to Lille
As RTVE has learned, Atlético Madrid filed an official complaint with UEFA about violation of refereeing in the Champions League match against Lille. The protest is focused on the play that changed the course of the game. a penalty in favor of the French, making the score 2-1..
In the 74th minute, after a rebound in the penalty area, To the surprise and protests of the Atlético players, the referee whistled the maximum penalty.in an action in which the hand of Angel Gomez, a player of the French national team, is observed, and then the light touch of the foot of Coque Resurrección of the same footballer, who falls in the penalty area. After making the decision, the judge did not look at anything on the monitor.
Three minutes later Confirm your commitment to the VARJonathan David scored the 1-2 to end the match, which ended 1-3 in favor of the French team and a defeat for Atlético, whose members were unaware that the referee had indicated to award the penalty that changed the course of the match. duel in the last segment.
“Hopefully we can find something to say it was a penalty and be sure it was a penalty. The referee first said that it was a handball, then they commented that Koke pushed one in the middle… But the truth is that no one cares. The 2-1 score was the balance for the Lille team, said Diego Simeone, their coach, at the end of the match.
“Nothing. It’s like when someone says “penalty”. Fine. Explain to me why it was a penalty. Honestly, I hope we can see something. I hope UEFA or I don’t know who is saying that “the referee was right, VAR didn’t help him because the referee was right and he scored the penalty.” But when they give you a penalty for not touching him with your hand…” the coach added.
“I did not approach the judge to find out what explanation he gave. Then I looked at the video and it seemed to me that the Lille player made a handball, and then I don’t know whether Koke touched him or not. But first it’s a handball.” Besides, I think I should see it well,” in turn, Argentine striker Julián Alvarez assessed the situation in the mixed zone after the match at the Metropolitan Stadium.
“He whistles with his hand. And in the end I don’t know what happened. He says they are checking the hand and if you say it wasn’t a hand, then I don’t know what kind of hand it was. This is incredible. It hurt us, but if we had done the work we were supposed to do, this mistake could not have punished us. I didn’t see this. The only thing I know is that he told us he was checking to see if it was a hand. In the end, I don’t know what happened, they will give an explanation, and we’ll see if they explain what exploded,” goalkeeper Jan Oblak said in an interview with Movistar.
“I don’t know. He said hand, but at the end I don’t know what he was whistling. Nobody understands, I hope they understand, but we also have nothing to complain about, because we had chances to finish the game, and then we scored on a rebound, a penalty, another rebound… And this is football. When it doesn’t go, it doesn’t go. “At the end of the day, it’s very terrible: you lose 3-1 at home, but we had the game to win and we didn’t,” the goalkeeper added on Wednesday night.