There was a second of confusion and controversy, as Julian Alvarez’s penalty for Atletico Madrid towards Actual Madrid was chalked off throughout the shoot-out on Wednesday.

Atletico, who misplaced the primary leg 2-1 on the Bernabeu, had levelled the tie due to Conor Gallagher’s early purpose.

With no additional targets in 120 minutes, the Champions League last-16 tie needed to be determined from 12 yards.

The important thing second in that penalty shootout got here with the fourth kick, taken by Alvarez.

With it 2-1 in Actual’s favour, Alvarez slipped as he took his effort.

Initially it regarded like he had received away with it after the ball flew into the roof of the online.


However the VAR official checked the replay, which confirmed Alvarez linked with the ball along with his standing leg after which the opposite leg for a double kick.

That’s towards the principles with penalties so the ‘purpose’ was dominated out.

So, as an alternative of it being 2-2, it went again to 2-1 to Actual, with Fede Valverde making it 3-1.

Angel Correa scored for Atletico for 3-2 to Actual, then each Lucas Vazquez and Marcos Llorente missed for Actual and Atletico respectively.

That gave Antonio Rudiger the possibility to win the shootout for Actual, which he did as they sealed a 4-2 victory on penalties to arrange a quarter-final with Arsenal.

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