Almost a month after Atlético-Liverpool in the Metropolitan for which Griezmann saw the red, the rojiblanco club receives his punishment: two penalty matches. Something that has angered, and a lot, the rojiblanco club, for excessive and treacherous. The Frenchman already missed the rojiblanco team’s match at Anfield and now he will also be lost, when Simeone had him and was in all his plans, that of Milan in the Wanda Metropolitano, in which Atlético need to win to go to Porto on the last day with options to qualify. However, the club will appeal this second game.
Two encounters with Griezmann for an action that was fortuitous, as the Frenchman wanted to control a raised ball and his foot hit Firmino’s neck. The referee, without hesitation, showed him the red one. The funny thing is that on that same day and group, Ibrahimovic did not see her for a similar action in Milan-Porto and neither did Diogo Jota for an action traced to that of Griezmann in the game that in Anfield faced rojiblancos and English. Identical. But there without a card or two games out. What Atlético is playing with. Griezmann himself, who had to watch this last meeting on TV, did not hold back on social networks: “Yellow at Anfield …”. “Against everything and against everyone”.
A punishment that, by the way, comes from the action itself. Two games for that kick. At Atlético it hurts the forcefulness of the sanction and, in addition, the chronology. First he knew that Griezmann could not play in Liverpool. This Wednesday he met the bonus of the second meeting. In addition, not all the direct reds in the Champions League have led to two suspension matches. Wan Bissaka lost two for “rough play”, but after United’s appeal he stayed at one. Mbemba (Porto) and Ahmedhodzic (Malmö) only missed one match. That is where Atleti tries to be optimistic with his resource.
Felipe, two other suspension matches
Identical path that the French will take Philip. The center-back saw the direct red at Anfield for a tackle on Mané and, in addition to how painful it was to leave his team with ten, now They have lost two games of sanction as well. In other words, the Brazilian will no longer play in this group stage. Atleti, which has known the two punishments on the same day, is studying whether there is scope to appeal this punishment as well.
Luckily for Simeone, Savic is now available, after having had to serve four penalty matches for elbowing Rüdiger in the chest (Chelsea) and the subsequent protest. A punishment that in the club was also understood as excessive and that ends now, against Milan. And Simeone can count on Savic. And I thought that with Griezmann. Not anymore.
