{"id":12189,"date":"2025-06-23T21:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/simeone-criticizes-refereeing-after-atletico-madrids-elimination-in-cwc\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T21:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:22:14","slug":"simeone-criticizes-refereeing-after-atletico-madrids-elimination-in-cwc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/simeone-criticizes-refereeing-after-atletico-madrids-elimination-in-cwc\/","title":{"rendered":"Simeone Criticizes Refereeing After Atl\u00e9tico Madrid&#8217;s Elimination in CWC"},"content":{"rendered":"Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid returns home earlier than expected after their elimination in the group stage of the Club World Cup.\n\nAtl\u00e9tico&#8217;s coach, Diego Simeone, attributed the elimination to the refereeing decisions.\n\nDespite a 1-0 victory over Botafogo of Brazil in the last match of Group B, the team finished third in a difficult group, tied on points with Paris Saint-Germain and Botafogo, but with an unfavorable goal difference.\n\nThe 4-0 defeat to PSG was decisive for their aspirations in the tournament.\n\nProud of the boys&#8217; work. We gave it our all. We won two out of three games and yet, sadly, we&#8217;re out. With six points, it wasn&#8217;t bad, but the match against PSG condemned us, where every refereeing decision was always against us. Today&#8217;s match also had a penalty decision disallowed after a VAR review. It&#8217;s more of the same. We know what we need to improve, and this will help us move forward.\n\nAtl\u00e9tico arrived in the United States with high expectations, counting on players like Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez and Antoine Griezmann.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0624%2Fr1510496_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Diego Simeone y el Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid no lograron pasar a la ronda eliminatoria de la Copa Mundial de Clubes.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Diego Simeone y el Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid no lograron pasar a la ronda eliminatoria de la Copa Mundial de Clubes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nThe defeat against PSG and the overall poor performance raised doubts about the team&#8217;s direction under Simeone&#8217;s management.\n\nGriezmann stood out against Botafogo, scoring the decisive goal.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We can&#8217;t focus on the referee. Sometimes we&#8217;re not at our best, and we need to address that.<\/p><cite>Antoine Griezmann<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nDespite the dominant possession, Atl\u00e9tico did not trouble Botafogo&#8217;s defense and needed the interventions of their goalkeeper Jan Oblak.\n\nThe defeat against PSG exposed defensive weaknesses and a lack of creativity.\n\nAtl\u00e9tico de Madrid faces challenges to rebuild and regain its status as a contender.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid returns home earlier than expected after their elimination in the group stage of the Club World Cup. Atl\u00e9tico&#8217;s coach, Diego Simeone, attributed the elimination to the refereeing decisions. Despite a 1-0 victory over Botafogo of Brazil in the last match of Group B, the team finished third in a difficult group, tied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2704,787,4627,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-12189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-club-world-cup","10":"tag-diego-simeone","11":"tag-psg"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}