Champions League: Diego Simeone and Jürgen Klopp didn’t shake hands after the match (VIDEO) | SPORTNET – SME.sk

MADRID. Atlética Madrid football coach Diego Simeone refused to shake hands with his Liverpool opponent Jürgen Klopp after Tuesday’s Champions League match.

However, the coaches did not pay increased attention to this aftermath of the dramatic match, in which FC Liverpool succeeded on the ground of the reigning Spanish champion 3: 2 and held the top of the B-group with a full number of 9 points.

Atlético rejoiced in the previous mutual measurement of forces in the eight finals of the 2019/2020 season.

They criticized Simeone

The English club retaliated and Simeone’s reaction was criticized in the British television studio by former players Peter Crouch and Joleon Lescott.

“It was nothing. His reaction was similar to mine when Atlético eliminated us in Anfield in 2020. I didn’t behave perfectly then either. He was understandably angry, not at me, but at the match and at the whole world,” Klopp said. both coaches agreed that they would shake hands in retaliation in two weeks.

“Normally I’m not in the habit of greeting after a match. I don’t like it and I don’t think it’s appropriate because someone will always be dissatisfied with the result. They have a different culture and I don’t identify with it,” Simeone said.

No one questioned the quality, intensity and level of the fight at Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, where Liverpool won the title in the most prestigious European club competition in 2019 and lost 0: 1 seven months later as a defender.

Griezmann wrote history

The guests got into a two-goal lead very quickly thanks to Mohamed Salah and Naby Keit. The home team managed to equalize until the break with two interventions by Antoine Griezmann.

The French striker was the central figure of another reversal. In the 58th minute, he saw a red card for a high leg in the face of Robert Firmin and became the first player to be included in the list of shooters and eliminators several times in one match of the Champions League.

The Madrid team did not maintain a tie in the numerous disadvantages and collected from the eleventh in the 78th minute.

After a foul on Diogo Jota, Salah turned her in and with 31 goals he became the best scorer in Liverpool’s history in the Champions League. In addition, as the first footballer in club history, he scored in nine consecutive duels in all competitions.

Liverpool people did not find a winner in 21 series matches across competitions. In the previous nine matches, they scored 30 goals and won at least three times in all seven of this season’s performances on the opponents’ fields.

Klopp owes three points

VAR also helped them to three points, calling off a penalty kick for Jota’s intervention in his own 16 on Jose Maria Gimenez.

“I don’t care how, the important thing is that we won. As expected, it was challenging, at the beginning we did surprisingly well. However, we did not expect it to be so offensive, after two wonderful goals we quickly led 2: 0 and showed we are good football, we did not patch some holes in the back and we collected twice, that was not right, during the break we knocked and played a solid second half, in which both teams played intensely.

The “dirty” three points are often the most important and these were “dirty”. It wasn’t our best performance, but it was a significant step, “Klopp told the BBC.

He added to the whistled eleven on the one hand, the canceled penalty on the other and the exclusion:

“I understand that Atlética fans and people in Spain are dissatisfied with some of the decisions. But I think our eleven was as clear as it was clear that Atlético should not kick it. Still, I was surprised that VAR changed the decision. The red card was unhappy for the opponent, but she had to be – the foot went to the face. “

Atlético did not score four points in the same way as FC Porto. The Portuguese representative defeated AC Milan 1-0 and prepared the third loss for the Italian returnee to the main stage of the Champions League.