Robbo
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But when I saw the replay and the back leg goes up from Simeone, I'm thinking, does he initiate the contact?
So I'd have probably gone to the VAR and gone the other way.
I'd have just sent him off the first view.
And then seeing the VAR, I would have probably given a yellow card and changed it round.
Because I think that the initial contact was made almost by Simeone putting his leg back in.
But, you know, in the end, Stevie's absolutely right in terms of if you get on the wrong side, if you don't see the run, there's the big fault.
And you're always going to have problems if you're chasing back and it only needs a little bit of contact or something like that to happen and you're in trouble.
Well, he started off, he went past Marco Ruggeri a couple of times, and then he played the worst pass you'd ever see, even if he didn't see the Atleti player.
But when they went a goal down and when they were playing with 10 men, he was the player you wanted the ball to go to.
Every time he got the ball, you thought, well, he might go past him.
But when you're outnumbered, they always got blocks in.
They just stopped that final cross, that final shot.
So he did everything he possibly could to get Barcelona back in the game, but it wasn't quite his night.