Diego Simeone criticizes the performance of the referee in the defeat of Atletico Madrid in Lille

Atletico Madrid collapsed to another disappointing Champions League defeat on Wednesday as Lille left the Metropolitano with a 3-1 win. It is now consecutive losses in the competition for Los Colchoneros, whose hopes of automatically qualifying for the last 16 are over.

Atleti had taken the first lead, before conceding three unanswered goals. The big moment in the match came when Lille was awarded a controversial penalty in 1-1, which allowed Jonathan David to put in the Ligue 1 side. Diego Simeone was far from happy, as for AS Diary.

“There is nothing. Why did they whistle? They said handball, then a push. I hope we can see something. Someone from UEFA will tell us that the referee was right and the VAR did not intervene for something. I hope there it will happen in our favor. It takes the game to 1-2, and again, bad luck costs us so much in the game.”

It wasn't just the referee that Simeone wasn't happy with. He was also complaining about his Atletico Madrid the inability of the team to extend its advantage, before it was completely canceled.

“In front of the brutal error of the referee and the VAR, it was our lack of strength to not be able to score three goals. We had such a good game with three or four goal situations, but we did not have to force that this competition asked for and it is not so.

“We had chances and the penalty took the game where it didn't seem like it should go. We are in a very difficult moment in the Champions League, we have to go play against PSG and we are in a complicated situation.”