Diego Simeone slammed Atletico Madrid's ultras after violence caused Sunday's 1-1 draw with Real Madrid to be temporarily halted, though he also feels players who provoke fans should be sanctioned. (More Football News)
Diego Simeone slammed Atletico Madrid's ultras after violence caused Sunday's 1-1 draw with Real Madrid to be temporarily halted, though he also feels players who provoke fans should be sanctioned
Diego Simeone slammed Atletico Madrid's ultras after violence caused Sunday's 1-1 draw with Real Madrid to be temporarily halted, though he also feels players who provoke fans should be sanctioned. (More Football News)
Atleti and their c🐠ross-city rivals both maintained their unbeaten starts to the season as they pl♛ayed out a fiery draw at the Civitas Metropolitano, with Angel Correa's stoppage-time goal cancelling out Eder Militao's 64th-minute opener.
Militao's goal precipitated violent scenes as the ultras group Fondo Sur hurled objects including cigarette lighters at👍 visiting goalkeeper Thibaut Cour💟tois.
That caused referee Mateo Busquets Ferrer to take both teams off the pitch for 15 minutes, as Simeone and Atleti captain Koke approached the stands in a bid to placate f🤪ans🍸.
After the delayed match finally ended level, with Atleti also seeing Marcos Llorente sent off nine minutes into stoppage time, Simeone told DAZN: "My opinion is that people who have committed incidents should be sanctioned by the club. We don't need these people. We ne🌳ed the people who accompany and support us."
He was also cri💛tical, however, of Courtois' celebrations, adding: "They harm the club, but be careful: that does not justify generating situations that we, the protagonists, generate.
"ꦆWe all have to help. The people who have thrown those lighters, it's not right. But maybe it doesn't help when us, the protagonists, undermine people, charge ag꧒ainst people, provoke people and then people get angry.
"Peopl🐷e have no other way of doing it, in a bad way, which is not r🌊ight, but we also have to try to be calm, to understand the situations.
&q🐷uot;You can celebrate a goal by celebrating it, but not by 𓃲celebrating it by staring at the stands, charging against the stands, making gestures... because then people get angry.
"Of course it's not justified, but neither is the initial thing justified because otherwise we'll always be victims. The one who throws the cigarette li♚ghter should be sanctioned and the one who provokes should also be sanctioned.
"This way there♌ is no more laughter and things like that; as you are not sanctioned, you are allo🍰wed to do things."
Atletico later released an official statement saying they have already identified one fan who hurled objects onto the pitch and are working with police to iden🐠tify others.
"At🍬letico de Madrid wishes to express their rejection of the throwing of objects from a section of the south stand in the 68th minute of 🦄the match against Real Madrid," the statement read.
"The club's security department has been working together with the police to locate those involved, one of wh💖om has already been identified.
"The club will apply the internal regime foreseen for very serious cases to the people i❀nvolved in this incident.
"These attitudes h♈ave no place in football and tarnish the image of a stadium that🐲 has experienced a spectacular atmosphere with more than 70,000 spectators in the stands, the vast majority of whom have shown exemplary behaviour."