Thibaut Courtois is "fed up" with Atletico Madrid complaining about refereeing decisions after Real Madrid's contentious penalty shootout win. (More Football News)
Diego Simeone was furious at the officials after the match, ins💛isting there was not a single angle of the incident to back up that decision
Thibaut Courtois is "fed up" with Atletico Madrid complaining about refereeing decisions after Real Madrid's contentious penalty shootout win. (More Football News)
Real booked their place in the quarter-finals with a 4-2 spot-kick win at Metropolitano Stadium on Wed🐲nesday after the tie finished 2ꦏ-2 on aggregate.
Julian Alvarez thought he had levelled the shoo🍰tout at 2-2, only for VAR to rule the p♑enalty out after adjudging he had touched the ball twice.
Diego Simeone was fu🍷rious at the officials after 🌺the match, insisting there was not a single angle of the incident to back up that decision.
However, Real goalkeeper Courtois defe🍸nded the match officials and told former side Atleti𒉰co to just accept the defeat.
"I'm always fed up with that victimhood, always crying over things lik🍃e that," he told repor💯ters.
"Referees don't want to benefit ꦡa team, neither in Spain nor in Europe, they saw it clearly and they called it that way.
"T🦂hey're human, and with technology, they saw it clearly.&quo🌸t;
Connor Gallagher scored💫 the only goal of the second leg after just 27 seconds, but neither side could find a winner as the game went the distance.
Real's fourth penaltꦏꦕy shootout win in the European Cup and Champions League is the outright most of any club.
"If you're winning 1-0 in the first minute🍸 and don't go for the second, that's the fault of their game," C๊ourtois added.
"In the end, it was a lottery. I felt like it was a double, aꦦnd I told the referee. It's not easy to see, and it's bad luck for them."
Fellow Madrid player Dani Ceballos, who played no par🍬t in the tie, also appeared to take a swipe at Simeone on social media.
Ceballos shared a video of Sim🌱eone's earlier press conference, titled "cinema", and accompanied it with a raised h⛄and emoji.
Re🌸al have now ꧟knocked Atletico out of the Champions League, including finals, five times – only Bayern Munich (seven times against Los Blancos) have been eliminated more times by a single opponent.