Antoine Griezmann failed to mince his phrases after Alexis Sanchez missed from the location through a remarkable penalty shootout that noticed Atletico Madrid access the Champions League quarter-finals.
Jan Oblak was the hero as the LaLiga giants beat Inter Milan 3-2 on penalties at the Wanda Metropolitano on Wednesday evening.
Hakan Calhanoglu and Memphis Depay, whose 87th moment objective rescued Atletico and compelled the sport to more-time, emphatically scored the initial two penalties.
The Serie A giants then blinked 1st as Sanchez sent a tame effort down the middle, which Oblak parried.
As the Atletico gamers celebrated, Griezmann, who was observing on from the bench, turned to Rodrigo De Paul shouting ‘He [Sanchez] is s***, the Chilean is s***!’
Atletico Madrid star Antoine Griezmann (center) was found wildly celebrating Alexis Sanchez’s penalty skip through their Champions League final-16 clash with Inter Milan on Wednesday
The Chilean skipped Inter Milan’s 2nd penalty in the shootout towards Atletico Madrid
Jan Oblak saved Sanchez’s tame exertion, which was the initially of his two will save in the shootout
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The exchange was captured by Movistar Furthermore cameras, which have been filming the penalties from the reverse side of the ground.
Just after Sanchez’s skip, Yann Sommer saved from Saul in advance of Oblak created his next help you save of the shootout as he pushed away Davy Klaassen’s kick.
Rodrigo Riquelme scored and so did Francesco Acerbi, prior to Angel Correa blasted Atletico’s fourth penalty earlier Sommer and Inter captain Lautaro Martinez skied his effort to mail the hosts via.
‘In the close it can be a little bit about luck in the shootout,’ Oblak claimed.
‘Because you have to decide on the accurate facet and you have to make the cease. If the participant takes the kick perfectly, it truly is unachievable to stop it.
‘Luckily, I was able to make the saves. What matters is the victory and that we built it to the quarter-finals.’
Trailing 1- from the initially leg, Atletico uncovered on their own driving as Federico Dimarco put past season’s Champions League finalists forward in the very first half, only for Griezmann to restore parity two minutes afterwards.
The Frenchman experienced appear again from an harm sustained in the 1st leg to rating his sixth Champions League objective of the season placing him joint major scorer with Kylian Mbappe and Harry Kane.
‘It was relocating,’ Simeone explained.
‘I’m joyful for the gamers and for the followers. We are among the the best 8 groups in Europe once again. That suggests a large amount about this club.’
Griezmann 35th minute strike cancelled out Federico Dimarco’s target in just the to start with-50 %
Lautaro Martinez blasted Inter Milan’s ultimate penalty over the bar to send out Atletico by means of
Diego Simeone mentioned his side’s dramatic acquire about the Serie A leaders was ‘moving’
Inter manager Simone Inzaghi conceded his facet, who experienced arrived at the Metropolitano making the most of a 13-match winning streak and ended up unbeaten in their previous 15 consecutive online games in all competitions, would look back again on the final result as a missed chance.
‘We must be proud of what we did in this Champions League,’ he reported.
‘In the next half we must have completed greater. In excess time we had a lot more energy but sadly we manufactured also a lot of blunders.’