Atletico Madrid instructs Diego Simeone complained that real Madrid get hold of preferential remedy from referees after an instantly purple card become shown to Angel Correa in a 1-1 draw against their rivals in Saturday’s derby.
Simeone changed into fuming over referee Gil Manzano’s sending off of Atletico forward Correa within the 64th minute after an elbow to the chest of defender Antonio Rudiger with the rating 0-zero.
“A contact isn’t a blow,” Simeone instructed DAZN after the sport. “soccer is a bodily game. If I am not flawed, Rudiger measures 1.94m and if it becomes reputedly this type of brutal blow, it would have left him sitting down, but he straight away receives up.
“it could be a yellow [card] but taking a participant out for that, there could be no players left on the sphere.
“It is the equal story. It is normal, and it has emerged as regular [refereeing favoring Madrid] and that’s not proper and it’d be nice if we may want to all compete in the same manner.”
It turned into the third time this season that Simeone felt his team had been punished unfairly by Madrid.
Atletico had Stefan Savic pink carded in their 3-1 greater-time loss at actual Madrid within the Copa del Rey quarterfinal on Jan. 26 and had Mario Hermoso sent off of their 2-1 defeat to Real Madrid in LaLiga on Sept. 18.
“in the Copa del Rey, they may have sent off [Madrid’s] Dani Ceballos for a nasty that was pink,” Simeone stated. “these days, Angel’s foul they saw it that way. You have all visible it, a few matters are very clear.”
Simeone turned into asked about the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) and stated: “it can cross either manner, now and then in your favor, from time to time in opposition to you.
“but, on every occasion, we come right here [to the Bernabeu stadium], it goes in opposition to us.”
Atletico also expressed their anger thru the club’s official Twitter account, which tweeted: “nothing new at the Bernabeu.”
After the sending-off, Atletico even though went ahead thru Jose Maria Gimenez inside the 78th minute earlier than gifted away Alvaro Rodriguez’s equalizer seven minutes later.
“we’re left with the sensation that we may want to have received the game,” Simeone stated. “We knew that Madrid on the give up of video games could be very dangerous.
“We overcame Reinildo’s damage, additionally recovered from Correa’s sending off, and took the lead. We should have defended higher so as no longer to concede the equalizer, but we should keep on this effective direction.”
Simeone, meanwhile, showed that Atletico defender Reinildo has suffered serious knee damage to keep him out of motion for the rest of the season.
The Mozambican defender became stretchered off in the first 1/2 with a suspected torn right ACL.
“It’s severe damage,” Simeone stated. “We must wait to peer what the health practitioner says after the tests are finished inside the sanatorium. It is a pity. We ship him quite a few strengths. He’ll return to play in five or six months.”
Saturday’s result left actual Madrid 2d in l. A. Liga, seven factors at the back of Barcelona, who go to Almeria on Sunday.
“La Liga has ended up more hard now,” actual Madrid instructor Carlo Ancelotti stated. “It already was before this recreation, and it’s miles even extra after this recreation. What we’re going to do is fight until the final game.”
Ancelotti, whose facet got here from 2-0 down to overcome Liverpool 5-2 in their midweek Champions League round of sixteen first leg, admitted his group wasn’t at their sharpest.
“We lacked a touch bit of mental freshness, mainly whilst being in numerical superiority,” he said.
There was one advantage for Madrid and that became a teenager ahead of Alvaro Rodriguez scoring his first intention on his first-group debut at the Santiago Bernabeu.
“He is a teen that has quite a little enthusiasm to play for actual Madrid and he has scored for the primary time at the Bernabeu,” Ancelotti said.
