“Scandal!”
All of Spain discusses this scene
Updated on 13.03.2025 – 2:43 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The city derby in the round of 16 of the Champions League ends with a bitter disappointment for Atlético Madrid. Above all, a decision in the penalty shootout in Spain then causes great discussions.
The two city rivals fought a gripping fight for 120 minutes, but in the end Real Madrid won the penalty shootout (2: 4 ne). The day after the game, in Spain, the main all about one topic is: the scene around Julián Álvarez, whose transformed penalty was subsequently canceled.
After the first three shooters had hit, Atlético striker Álvarez also converted his penalty. But the Argentinian slipped in the start. The VAR took in because a double touch of the ball was suspected. Referee Marciniak canceled the goal – without looking at the controversial scene.
While Real is happy about the move into the quarter -finals, there is disagreement in the Spanish press landscape on the correctness of the decision. The Spanish portal “Sport” even calls the cancellation as a “scandal”.
“Sport”: “It can never be seen that he touched the ball at all. In any case, the Var either had a better picture than this-which seems unlikely-or the referee of the game, the pole Marciniak, was very badly advised from the VAR room. There is no picture that does not clarify anything, so they should not have intervened in such a decisive action.”
“Mundo Deportivo”: “The repetitions offered could not clear up the doubts. It was unclear whether Julian had touched the ball twice, but the varied Marciniak nevertheless that double contact had taken place and that the Argentine’s shot was not recognized.”
“As”: “The gate was not recognized and should not have been given. The reason: The video referee found that the striker had touched the ball twice when the slip was in the throw -in, which made the shot inadmissible.”
“El País”: “The great Champions League dazzle final ended how everything ends in Europe: Real Madrid escaped through a lapsus at the end of the game […] A penalty whistled by the Var millimeter precise, a slip of Julián Alvarez in the execution of the penalty in the penalty shootout, which made him touch the ball twice before the goal. “
“Marca”: “Real Madrid once again showed in the metropolitano why they are the kings of the Champions League. Atlético Madrid put the immortality of the whites on the test and in the end had to take another defeat that they will not be forgotten so quickly.”
The former Spanish top referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz As an expert on Spanish television, criticized the procedure. “I would want to see it and then decide,” he said at the broadcaster “Movistar TV”.