International football
The Real Madrid classification to the quarterfinals of the Champions League was marked by a slip of Julián Álvarez, which caused his shot that he had scored.
The Argentine Julián Álvarez during the match against Real Madrid of the Champions League. (Free Press Photo: AFP)
Real Madrid qualified on the Metropolitan court to the quarterfinals of the Champions League After imposing on Atlético de Madrid In a batch of penalties (4-2) marked by a Julián Álvarez slip that made the shot he had scored invalidated.
That ruling and the one that Marcos Llorente condemned Atlético before a Real Madrid who is the defender of the title And that only one launch failed, that of Lucas Vázquez.
Before, in regulatory time, Atlético had won 1-0 with an early goal by Conor Gallagher to thirty seconds, to balance the adverse 2-1 that brought from the first leg.
Real Madrid could have marked in 65 with a penalty committed on Kylian Mbappé and failed by the Brazilian Vinícius (68), which he sent out.
At the closing of the decisive batch and after Llorente’s ruling, Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak came to play German Antonio Rüdiger, But the ball entered the goal to give the final classification to the ‘meringues’. Now, the Madrid team will be measured in the quarterfinals with Arsenal, which eliminated PSV Eindhoven.
“I had in my head that it could be that side, I arrived a little late and that’s why it has entered. It’s football and it couldn’t be,” Oblak said at the end of the game to the channel Movistar+.
What the rule about the penalty annulled to Julián Álvarez says
The situation The penalty will undoubtedly be the most commented issue during the next few weeks, since Julián Álvarez had managed to score and keep Atlético alive in the releases.
However, the referee, the Polish Szymon Marciniak, turned to the VAR at the time when Federico Valverde was going to execute his shot. The reason? The possible two touches of the Argentine in its penalty.
Rule 14 of the FIFA stipulates the following about what happened: “The pitcher will not be able to touch the ball for the second time until another player has touched it. The bounce of the post or the crossbar is not included. In case of touching it, it will be sanctioned with free indirect.”
Being in a penalty batch, there will be no option to sanction an indirect free, so corresponded was to cancel the launch.