16 h. ago Uefa responds to outrage over Julian Alvarez penalty controversy in Champions League exit

Uefa will raise the penalty ruling with Fifa and law-maker Ifab over ‘cases where a double touch is clearly unintentional’

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16 h. ago UEFA react to Atletico Madrid penalty call and reveal they may CHANGE double touch ruling

Julian Alvarez's converted spot kick was ruled out against Real Madrid and European powerbrokers are ready to rip up their rulebook

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16 h. ago UEFA release statement on controversial Real Madrid VAR decision and hint at major change

Real Madrid progressed to the quarter finals of the Champions League after beating neighbours Atletico Madrid in a hugely controversial shootout which saw one strike disallowed

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17 h. ago Penalty drama in Madrid as Real find a way yet again – Football Weekly Extra podcast

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini, Mark Langdon and Sid Lowe to chew over the Champions League actionRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today; even for Real Madrid this felt like a particularly novel way to progress in the Champions League, with Atlético’s Julián Alvarez adjudged to have double-kicked his penalty in the shootout. Cue confusion on the pitch, in the dugout, the press box and at home. But, once the dust had settled, Carlo Ancelotti’s team were through again. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Atlético Madrid’s torment goes on – Real are the nightmare they can’t wake up from | Sid Lowe

Diego Simeone’s side lost to their city rivals yet again, in a fashion that was unbelievable and yet so very believableOne day, Diego Simeone said, in those quiet moments when they are alone with their thoughts and memories, Real Madrid’s players will think of Atlético Madrid and how they made them suffer. But the real trauma, he knows, will for ever be theirs. In the final moments before this latest European derby, the first at the Metropolitano, a huge mosaic had declared that following Atlético “kills me and gives me life”. At the end of it, once fate had found another, still crueller way of twisting the knife, of delivering the inevitable, the coach pushed his footballers and his fans together, applauding so hard his hands hurt almost as much as their hearts.“I am proud of them,” he said afterwards. “I am happy, honestly. I am happy. I am happy. Why? Because we competed in a way that was exemplary. We might not have been able to beat Real Madrid in the Champions League. Sure. Of...

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20 h. ago Why was Julian Alvarez's penalty not retaken after double touch drama?

Atletico Madrid shootout spot-kick was ruled out by VAR on night of huge controversy against Real Madrid in the Champions League

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21 h. ago What furious Diego Simeone said after Julian Alvarez penalty controversy

Atletico Madrid boss left seething after huge shootout decision as Real Madrid advance in Champions League drama

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22 h. ago Furious Diego Simeone slams VAR penalty decision after controversial Real Madrid defeat

Atletico Madrid star Julian Alvarez saw his penalty cancelled by VAR midway through the shootout against rivals Real Madrid, having been adjudged to have touched the ball twice

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22 h. ago Atletico Madrid in VAR rage over CANCELLED penalty goal as little

Diego Simeone was furious as Real Madrid advanced in the Champions League at the expense of their city rivals after penalty shootout

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23 h. ago Atletico and Julian Alvarez were knocked out of the Champions League by one of the worst rules in football

Julian Alvarez was ruled to have hit the ball twice before scoring in Atletico’s penalty shootout defeat to Real Madrid, but only after VAR intervened to make the controversial judgement

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23 h. ago Atletico and Julian Alvarez were knocked out by an absurd penalty rule that must be changed

Julian Alvarez was ruled to have hit the ball twice before scoring in Atletico’s penalty shootout defeat to Real Madrid, but only after VAR intervened to make the controversial judgement

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26 h. ago Thursday’s briefing: Arsenal and Villa advance as focus turns to Europa League

Manchester United, Tottenham and Rangers all play on Thursday night.

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29 h. ago Thibaut Courtois ‘sensed’ Julian Alvarez ‘double touch’ before VAR controversy

The penalty was disallowed for a rarely seen ‘double touch’ as Real Madrid reached the quarter-finals

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30 h. ago Atletico Madrid suffer controversial penalty shootout heartbreak as little

Arsenal will face Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-final after Los Blancos edged past rivals Atletico Madrid following a nail-biting penalty shootout in the Spanish capital.

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31 h. ago Why Julian Alvarez penalty against Real Madrid was disallowed despite inconclusive replays

Julian Alvarez and the Atletico Madrid crowd thought he had successfully dispatched his penalty kick, only for an intervention from the VAR to determine he had kicked the ball twice

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31 h. ago Atletico vs Real Madrid LIVE: Champions League result after hugely controversial penalty shoot

Atletico Madrid 1-0 Real Madrid (2-2 on agg. Real Madrid win 4-2 on penalties): The holders will play Arsenal in the quarter-finals

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31 h. ago Why was Julian Alvarez’s penalty disallowed by VAR? Atletico

The Atletico Madrid striker was ruled to have ‘doubled touched’ the ball during the penalty shoot-out defeat to rivals Real Madrid

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31 h. ago Real Madrid send rivals Atlético packing after controversial penalty shootout

The thorn that Carlo Ancelotti said was wedged in Atlético Madrid’s side remains buried deep in their flesh, deeper and more painful than ever before. Six times now they have faced their city rivals in Europe, in 1959, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and again here and somehow they have been defeated in all of them, each more cruel than the last. The team that lost a European Cup final after a 93rd-minute equaliser and another on penalties was beaten again, and even if it was only a last-16 tie, this might just be the worst of them all. In part that is because of the pain accumulated, in part it is because of how it happened.How it happened was barely believable, even for a battle between these two. If Atlético didn’t beat Real this time, they may feel they never, ever will. Just when it seemed that fate might have shifted, it twisted the knife again. A goal after 29 seconds, a missed Vinícius Júnior penalty and a superb performance put them back on the spot again, another shootout. And ther...

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31 h. ago Real Madrid squeeze past Atlético after VAR intervenes in penalty shootout

The thorn that Carlo Ancelotti said was wedged in Atlético Madrid’s side remains buried in their flesh, deeper and more painful than ever before, never to be removed. For a sixth time they faced their city rivals in Europe – 2025 joining 1959, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 – and for a sixth time they were defeated. Utterly, perhaps eternally defeated. The team that lost one European Cup final derby after a 93rd-minute goal and another on penalties fell once more, and this time may even have been the worst of all, another chapter in the never-ending story.All of which may sound a bit much for a last-16 tie but the pain accumulates, each loss crueller than the last, and if the final result was oddly inevitable, how it happened was unthinkable, even for a battle between these two. If Atlético didn’t beat Real this time, they may feel they never will. Just when it seemed that fate might have shifted their way at last, it twisted the knife again. “I go in peace,” Diego Simeone said after, in...

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31 h. ago What is Arsenal's route to the Champions League final? Gunners get Madrid tie after dramatic penalty shootout

Arsenal will have to beat two European heavyweights to reach final

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