Atlético’s Simeone on Anfield squabble: ‘I was fighting back’

Atletico Madrid Boss Diego Shimon has claimed that he was “fighting back” against the insult of supporters, before he showed a red card in his team’s 3–2 defeat. Champions League Opener against against Liverpool In Enfield.

Simeone was rejected in stoppage time Virgil van lamp A winner scored for the hosts in front of the anger.

The Atletico manager was stuck in a dispute over the sideline with Liverpool supporters, before Stewards tried to control the situation and then Shimon was sent by Referee Morizio Mariani.

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Shimon said that he responded to abetment from the crowd. It made a scuffle on the sideline with the members of the Steovers and Atletico coaching team, all caught in the fract. The TV footage showed that Shimon faced a fan in the crowd and proceeded to calm the situation.

Addressing the situation at our postmatch news conference, Shimon said: “Let’s talk about me what is for me. We are in a place where we do not have the right to answer or react, what we? It is never very good when we react as managers, is it this?

“We are outside there and need to be treated well. But if there are comments against racism or humiliation, we can get angry and fight back, managers, from this place, from this place how we are humiliating all the game. When they scored the third goal, they turned me and when I wander, I am a person, I am a person and I am a human being.”

He said: “I am not going to the exact nature of humiliation. I don’t want to join with it. I do not want that discussion. I want to stay in my place. I know what happened behind the manager’s bench. I can’t solve the problems of society in a press conference. I have met it to live with it because it is present at all time.”

After fighting atlético’s 2–0, Anfielt had fierce views at the end of the game and then admitted to the second minute of additional time to lose the match.

Liverpool coach Arne Slot said that he was unaware of what happened.

Information of Associated Press was used in this report.