Julian Alvarez’s blow was controversial in the spotlight in the loss of the filming of Atletico Madrid to Real Madrid in the Champions League – but why was it allowed, and he broke the attacker even the rules at all?
Alvarez was second on the list of penalty holders at Atletico in their latest-6th champions after they had defeated Real 1-0 rivals in the second match to square 2-2 tie in aggregates.
The Argentine rose from 12 yards and, despite the slide, destroyed his punishment only under the intersection bar, passing an powerless Thibault Courtois. More than a minute later the blow was allowed after a VAR check which decided that he had touched the ball with both feet while it fell.
In the laws of the IFAB game 2024/25, in describing the procedure of a punishment of punishment it is stated: “(A penalty) Kick ends when the ball stops moving, goes out of the game or the judge stops playing for any insult; Kicker may not play the ball for the second time. “
After all, this rule would be important in the shoot, as Real progressed 4-2 in the country’s blows, with Marcos Llorente and Lucas Vazquez both missing sentences for both parties.
At a time when Alvarez’s attempt was allowed, the future Real Holder Federico Valverde had been waiting for his attempt for some time when Judge Szymon Marciniak, who was the man in the middle of the late Champions League victory of Man City.
Large sections of support within the Wanda Metropolitano stadium seemed aware that Alvarez’s attempt had been torn down, while many of the wider public public asked if it should have been allowed at all.
Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone refused to criticize Marciniak and his team of officials, but questioned whether there was final evidence that Alvarez had touched the ball twice – as a number of television angles seemed to show that his foot could not have made contact with him.
Julian Alvarez slipped while taking his blow
“I just saw the image of the penalty,” he told his press conference after the match. “The referee said that when Julián retreated and hit, he touched the ball with his leg, but the ball didn’t move. That’s something to discuss whether it was a goal or not, but I’m proud of my players.
“When he sows his leg and kicking, the ball does not move a little. But if he called him, I have never seen a penalty named by VAR, but it is still worth it, and they will have seen he touched him. I want to believe that he touched him.”
Addressing the journalists’ room directly, he then added: “Do you saw? Raise your hand if you think Julian knocked twice. I didn’t talk to him.”
At first there was no obvious sign that Marciniak had been told to his Var for constant control, and after the game, the true goalkeeper, Courtois, admitted that he had told the judge that he thought Alvarez had committed the offense – which could have been what led to the check.
“I felt he touched the ball twice and told the judge,” he said. “It’s not easy to see it. It was a little bad luck for them there.”
