Simeone and the penalty: “No handball, nothing, a brutal mistake by the referee”

Diego Simeonecoach of Atlético de Madridappeared in the media after his team’s loss against Lille in the Metropolitan.

“We are going to explain it in two ways. This is a beautiful competition that when a team plays like in the first half, with chances to go 2-0 or 3-0 and is not forced, the second half can happen, they . make a good goal to tie and then one, to find something to say it’s a penalty the referee says it’s a handball, then Koke pushes one… No one cares about his side , then we had important chances, they defended with a dose of luck that we sometimes have and in a game we managed to win 4-2 we left with 1-3.”

The penalty is unclear

“Nothing, boy. He says it’s a penalty but explain why it was a penalty, it wasn’t a handball, it wasn’t a push… I hope we see something, that UEFA said the referee was right. and that the VAR didn’t help him because of that, but when they charged you a penalty when there is no hand… I hope sometimes these mistakes that can happen are in our favor Sometimes it comes out and determines the match and again bad luck both in Lisbon where we played poorly, and now with two shots on goal they scored three goals for us.

What the players told you, your own mistakes

“Before the brutal mistake of the referee and the VAR, it was our lack of force when we could have scored three goals. So I said in the first question that there are two explanations. This competition needs force and it doesn’t forgive You are in a very complicated moment in the Champions League, we “They scored seven goals in two games, we lost two, we have to go to Paris, the options are less at this moment. “

Bruno Genesio says his team is better

“I’m not going to give my opinion on what the coach said, it’s normal for him to declare what he declared. The reality is that the first half was a great game, he played well, he managed the game, they did” t come up with anything but a corner and the truth is what it is.

Sorloth, three missed opportunities

“He had an exceptional first half, where he developed good combinations and movements with the team to reach the goal zone. They are getting to know each other better. He knows how to live in these types of situations, with goal and with the non-goal. It is the life of the forward that he can go to two or three goals.

Midfield, concerned

“They are three great footballers, Rodrigo world champion, Conor important and Koke we have known him all our lives. In the first half they played a good game, they controlled the game well, they managed the transitions, we turned the ball, with a great Griezmann and a Julián extraordinary, Galán keeps adding things… These are the positive things that remain for me from the game.”

The Metropolitan environment

(Seconds of silence) “How it lived, how everyone saw it”