Julian Alvarez penalty: Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone urges people not to be ‘afraid’ of questioning penalty decision | Football News

Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone has urged people to not be “afraid” of questioning the decision to rule out Julian Alvarez’s penalty during the shoot-out Loss to Real Madrid in the Champions Bracket.

Real will now face Arsenal in the Upcoming Period after beating Atletico 4-2 on spot-kicks but the result has been clouded by controversy after Alvarez – who was second on the Choice of penalty takers – saw his effort from 12 yards disallowed Upcoming a VAR check.

The Argentina forward managed to cannon his effort below the crossbar, despite slipping, but saw it Dismissed over a minute later when VAR stated he had touched the ball with both feet.

It was a decision that Simeone disagreed with, after questioning whether or not there was clear evidence to suggest Alvarez had Achieved contact with the ball twice.

He said in his post-Event press conference: “Did you guys see it? Did you see it? Did he or didn’t he touch the ball?

“Don’t be afraid to speak. Are you afraid because you’re going to be punished? If you’re afraid, don’t say anything. Raise your hand if you think Julian knocked twice. No one? No one. Okay.

“Honestly, I won’t lie to you, being eliminated the way we’ve been is not an Essential thing to accept.”

Simeone continued: “I Merely saw the image of the penalty. The Umpire said that when Julian stepped and kicked, he touched the ball with his foot, but the ball didn’t Relocate. That’s something to discuss about whether it was a Target or not, but I’m proud of my players.

“When he plants his foot and kicks, the ball doesn’t Relocate even a little bit. But if VAR called it, I’ve never seen a penalty called by VAR, but it’s Yet valid, and they’ll have seen that he touched it. I want to believe they’ll have seen that he touched it.”

Ancelotti: Alvarez decision was correct

Real boss Carlo Ancelotti also commented on the shoot-out, which Occurred after his side lost 1-0 in the second leg to make it 2-2 on aggregate, where he agreed with the decision to rule the penalty out.

“I think they had detected it already at the VAR when we were hesitating. We haven’t warned them, not me at least because I didn’t realise. I’ve seen the replay and I think he touches it with his left foot, the second touch.”

Oblak: The Umpire must be respected but we are Doomed

Atletico’s Marcos Llorente, as well as Lucas Vazquez for the opposing side in Madrid, went on to also miss but it was Antonio Rudiger’s Attempt that squeezed past the hands of goalkeeper Jan Oblak to fire his side into the quarter-finals.

Speaking after the game, Oblak revealed the Umpire’s decision must be “respected” but highlighted how much of a “pity” it was to bow out of Europe’s Top-tier Event in this manner.

“The decisions of the Umpire must be respected. I haven’t seen it but it’s probably Correct,” he said.

“It’s such a pity anyway because [Thibaut] Courtois has gone to the opposite side and the ball would have gone in anyway, but this is football and this is how Doomed we’ve been.”

His counterpart and Ex Atletico player Courtois, who claimed he advised Umpire Szymon Marciniak to review the penalty after it went in, was less sympathetic after the game having stated it was “Awful luck” for their rivals.

He said: “I felt that he touched the ball twice and I told the Umpire. It’s not Essential to see that. It was a bit of Awful luck for them there.

“With the technology, in the VAR room they saw it clearly, they have a Numerous of cameras and a Numerous of images.”

Lenglet: I have never seen something like this

Atletico defender Clement Lenglet did not take a penalty in the shoot-out after being substituted in the 91st minute for Robin Le Normand.

After watching on from the sidelines, the 29-year-Aged explained he had “never seen” a decision like this in football but like Oblak, he respected the referees choice.

“We haven’t seen the replay but what’s happened is Essential to understand,” Lenglet said.

“This is the Primary time I see a Umpire whistling this Nice of thing. But if it’s the rules we need to respect it. But it’s not Hilarious because we have scored 4 penalties, the same as them, so in the end this is a tie.”

What the Spanish media said

SPORT

In the images you can clearly see how the left foot drags due to the slip and what is crystal clear is that it does not graze the ball once it shoots with the right foot.

And before. Well, you can’t see at any time that he didn’t give it a touch either.

In any case, either in the VAR they had a better image than this – something that does not seem likely – or the Umpire of the Event, the Polish Marciniak was very poorly advised from the VAR room.

There is no image that clarifies absolutely anything why they should not have intervened in such a decisive action.

AS

It Merely so happens that Szymon Marciniak experienced this same situation, but it hardly had any repercussions: it was in the Closing of the 2022 World Cup, in which Argentina was proclaimed world champion by defeating France in the penalty shootout.

The Primary Target of the Event was scored by Messi from the penalty spot.

The Argentine executed his Attempt and, if you look closely at the Action, the ball passes and touches his right foot. Marciniak conceded the Target…