Socceroos greats Mark Bosnich and Craig Foster slammed Antoine Griezmann's "stupid" reddish paper which proved a monolithic infinitesimal successful Liverpool's melodramatic 3-2 Champions League triumph implicit Atletico Madrid this morning.
The French World Cup victor scored some of Atletico's goals earlier being sent disconnected successful a classical leader to villain outing astatine the Metropolitano.
Griezmann's footwear made interaction with Roberto Firmino's caput arsenic helium reached precocious for the shot successful the 2nd half.
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Liverpool capitalised connected the vantage with Mohamed Salah scoring the 78th infinitesimal victor from the punishment spot.
"If I was (Atletico manager Diego) Simeone I'd beryllium precise upset with Griezmann," Bosnich said connected Stan Sport.
"Forget astir intent, that was superior foul play, it was a sending disconnected and determination was nary request for it. Just stupid, nary request for it whatsoever. He didn't request to bash it...
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"Where's Firmino going there, what's helium going to bash to you? The astir he's going to bash is caput the shot 2 oregon 3 metres distant from you, large deal…
"Huge infinitesimal and there's nary request for it whatsoever.
"A definite nonstop off, superior foul play, it's endangering the information of different player.
"Why? He's going nowhere."
Foster concurred and was staggered by the naivety and deficiency of consciousness from specified an experienced and precocious people player.
"In that country of the transportation you cognize there's a batch of players astir successful midfield," Foster said.
"You're turning, you cognize that there's radical astir successful adjacent proximity and you spell bash that. It's excessively overmuch risk. He's taken his caput off!
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Egypt guardant Salah has scored successful 9 consecutive games for Liverpool successful each competitions, becoming the archetypal subordinate to bash that successful the club's 129 twelvemonth history.
Atletico had a punishment a fewer minutes aft Liverpool's 3rd extremity but it was reversed aft video review.
Naby Keita besides scored for Liverpool successful the archetypal fractional arsenic Liverpool took a 2-0 pb successful the 13th minute.
"It was a pugnacious game," Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said.
"How you triumph it, I couldn't attraction less. The tricky ones are the truly important ones. On a nighttime similar this, 3 points is truly massive."
The effect near Liverpool astatine the apical of Group B with 9 points from 3 matches, 5 points much than Atletico.
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Porto, which bushed AC Milan 1-0 astatine location successful the different radical match, was level with the Spanish champions.
Milan stayed connected zero points.
Atletico adjacent visits Liverpool, portion Milan hosts Porto.
It was the archetypal gathering betwixt Atletico and Liverpool since the Spanish broadside eliminated past defending European champion Liverpool successful the circular of 16 of the 2019-20 season.
Liverpool had been winless against Atletico successful 4 Champions League matches.
The English nine was successful power aboriginal and rapidly built its lead.
Salah opened the scoring successful the eighth infinitesimal aft picking up a shot connected the close flank and maneuvering past 3 Atletico defenders earlier sending a debased changeable into the corner.
The shot deed the bottommost of Geoffrey Kondogbia and spun into the corner.
Keita added to the pb 5 minutes aboriginal with a neat volley that curled successful by the post.
Atletico defender Felipe mishit his clearing changeable and the shot went consecutive to Keita for his one-timer from conscionable extracurricular the area.
"We didn't commencement the crippled the mode we wanted," Atletico manager Diego Simeone said.
"Only aft their 2nd extremity we could bash the things that we had been trying to do."
Griezmann pulled the hosts person with a redirection from adjacent scope successful the 20th aft Koke sent a debased changeable crossed the area, past equalised aft a bully tally by Joao Felix for his sixth treble with Atletico successful the Champions League, the astir by immoderate subordinate for the club.
Griezmann's show was marred by his reddish paper successful the 52nd arsenic helium went for a precocious shot but deed the broadside of Firmino's caput instead.
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Before leaving, Griezmann apologized to Firmino, who was making his 300th quality with Liverpool.
Salah scored the victor from the punishment spot aft Atletico defender Mario Hermoso shoved Diogo Jota pursuing a agelong shot sent into the area.
Atletico loudly complained of the reversed punishment telephone aft Jose Maria Gimenez went down wrong the country pursuing an brushwood with Jota successful a akin play that led to Liverpool's penalty.
"You could archer that the referee wasn't sure, but the different mode it was each precise accelerated (to telephone the punishment for Liverpool)," said Felipe, who felt a yellowish paper should person been shown for Griezmann alternatively of the red.
"It was a wholly antithetic lucifer portion Griezmann was inactive playing. We had to tally astatine 110 per cent aft helium was sent off."
Simeone started with Griezmann and Felix up front, leaving Luis Suarez connected the seat arsenic helium returned from his work with Uruguay's nationalist squad nursing a knock.
The striker had ne'er played against his erstwhile nine since joining Atletico from Barcelona past season.
Simeone and Klopp did not shingle hands aft the last whistle.
The Atletico manager rushed into the passageway aft the lucifer ended, and aboriginal said helium ne'er likes to shingle hands with opposing coaches aft games.
"He was evidently angry," Klopp said. "With the game, with the world."
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