"Rüdiger is 1.94m tall, he would have to receive a very brutal blow to send him to the ground, and in the image we see how he is immediately on his feet. It could have been yellow, well. Correa's gesture is a gesture that sometimes happens. This time It didn't play in our favour, and it would be nice if we could all compete at the same level", Diego Simeone lamented.
"The VAR exposes errors much more. We have seen it many times, but they are situations that we must accept because we have to help so that football is better," added the mattress coach, in whose opinion his team should have taken the victory.
"We were left with the feeling that we could have won the game. There was little left for the end and we were close and with the score in our favour, although we knew that Madrid is extremely dangerous in the final stages, as has been shown".
Simeone's bittersweet feeling was shared by the rojiblanco dressing room.
"Strange things happen. Maybe the next day we'll start with one less man," said Jan Oblak, the Atlético goalkeeper.
"It always happens with the referee at the end. I don't know why it could have been, but we haven't been able to play fairly either. Our idea had always been to defend strong, to be solid at the back, because we know that our quality would lead us to score a goal. What What happens is that we have been left with one less man and that has been noticed", added Stefan Savic.
"I don't know what to say - added the central mattress player when asked about the absence of VAR in Correa's expulsion -: we want the fairest football possible and we hope that one day it will be like that".
José María Giménez, author of the mattress goal, shared with Savic and Simeone his disbelief over Correa's expulsion: "I was far away, I don't see it well, but they told me that it could have been checked and not be red," he said on foot field.
