Soccer’s authorities will overview its guidelines round penalty kicks after ’s controversial exit drew from followers in addition to the membership’s supervisor .
of the final 16 by metropolis rivals after a penalty shootout, however Simeone was livid with officers after had his spot-kick retrospectively disallowed by VAR, who deemed the striker to have touched the ball twice earlier than scoring.
The referee didn’t initially see the double contact by Alvarez and it took video evaluations to intervene to erase the aim and go away Actual Madrid in place to win.
It wasn’t clear to a pissed off Simeone that the double contact really occurred. The coach requested reporters within the post-match information convention to boost their fingers in the event that they thought Alvarez touched the ball twice.
“There you go, nobody has raised their fingers,” Simeone mentioned. “Subsequent query.”
However the supervisor additionally tried to take the positives from a hard-fought efficiency by his gamers.
“There is no such thing as a doubt the followers are harm due to the elimination, however they know that their crew left the whole lot on the sphere and so they deserved the applause that they obtained. Sadly, we couldn’t advance, however I go away in peace.
“Sure, we haven’t been in a position to beat Actual Madrid within the Champions League, however they’ve all the time suffered towards us. I’m certain that, once they’ll be speaking to one another by themselves, they’ll be saying, ‘These guys all the time made it powerful for us’.”
defined that though Alvarez clearly didn’t imply to kick the ball together with his left foot, which slipped as he went to strike the ball together with his proper, the legal guidelines of the sport left the VAR with no selection however to rule out the aim.
The governing physique additionally mentioned it could talk about the foundations of the sport with Fifa and law-maker Ifab.
A Uefa assertion learn: “Atletico de Madrid enquired with Uefa over the incident, which led to the disallowance of the kick from the penalty mark taken by Julian Alvarez on the finish of yesterday’s Uefa Champions League match towards Actual Madrid.
“Though minimal, the participant made contact with the ball utilizing his standing foot earlier than kicking it, as proven within the connected video clip. Below the present rule (Legal guidelines of the Sport, Regulation 14.1), the VAR needed to name the referee signalling that the aim ought to be disallowed.”
It added: “Uefa will enter discussions with Fifa and Ifab to find out whether or not the rule ought to be reviewed in instances the place a double contact is clearly unintentional.”