Atletico Madrid 1-1 Getafe: VAR awards Angel Correa’s goal AFTER he was subbed off

Atlético Madrid drew 1-1 on Saturday against Getafe, the penultimate in LaLiga, who canceled out Ángel Correa’s bizarre goal on the minute with a thunderous Enes Unal penalty late on.

It was another disappointing result for Atlético in a difficult season. After finishing bottom of their Champions League group and being knocked out of the Copa del Rey by Real Madrid last week, Atlético are fighting to secure one of the league’s four spots in Europe’s top competition next season. .

They are fourth in the LaLiga standings with 35 points, four behind third-placed Real Sociedad and 15 behind leaders Barcelona. In the relegation zone, Getafe is 19th with 18 points.

Ángel Correa scored a rare goal that was conceded after being substituted in Atlético Madrid’s 1-1 draw with Getafe on Saturday night.

Enes Unal salvaged a late point from the penalty for the visitors, who are 19th in the LaLiga table

“We didn’t score the second goal, which left you calmer, and then we called a penalty in a situation that wasn’t dangerous. We have to keep improving,” Atlético coach Diego Simeone told DAZN.

Atlético had more than 60% possession and began to put pressure on their rivals in the first minutes of the game. They clamored for a penalty early in the first half when defender Djene Ortega, who had already been booked, held Álvaro Morata inside the box. But the referee decided that the contact was not enough to be seen as a violation.

Atlético manager Diego Simeone criticized his team’s performance after the match.

Despite going ahead early with a goal from Correa, the rojiblancos had trouble taking advantage of chances

Morata had a goal disallowed for offside soon after and Correa missed a shot from close range on the half-hour mark.

Atlético squandered several other chances to take an early lead, finally scoring in the 60th minute when Correa fired off a rebound.

The shot was initially disallowed by the assistant referee who thought the Argentine was offside, and Correa was later replaced by his coach Diego Simeone, while a lengthy VAR review confirmed the goal.

But in peculiar scenes, the referee in the video overturned that decision, conceded the goal, causing delirium on the touchline, as Atlético’s players and coaching staff rushed to the bench to celebrate with the winger, who had already donned his training jacket.

The Atlético players rushed to celebrate with the winger already wearing the tracksuit

But Getafe secured a precious point away from home in the 83rd minute after the referee detected a handball from Saúl Niguez inside the box. Unal stepped up and scored the resulting penalty, scoring with the visitors’ only shot on goal of the match.

Atlético made a late push for victory but kept missing chances and left frustrated in a game they probably should have won.

But Atlético were left frustrated, as they moved further away from Real Sociedad ahead of them in third place.

‘We tried in every way. Circumstances are sometimes unpredictable,” Simeone told DAZN.

‘The team had a good initiative. There were circumstances that could benefit us, such as Djene grabbing Morata, small circumstances that have not gone well for us lately.