Diego Simeone pointed a not so subtle dig at Pep Guardiola on a spicy and pugnacious night at the Wanda Metropolitano on Wednesday, where Manchester City's development to the elimination rounds was eclipsed by a fight on the contribute and the passage.
Simeone was asked after the match assuming that he felt Guardiola had affronted him during the quarterfinal, which City won 1-0 on total after a goalless attract the subsequent leg.
"Frequently individuals who have an incredible jargon, who are extremely smart, they can commend you with hatred. However, those of us with somewhat less jargon, we are not moronic either," Simeone said.
After the main leg Guardiola said "in pre-history, today and in a hundred thousand years, going after a 5-5 (arrangement) is truly challenging", which was taken by some to be an analysis of Atletico's cautious style.
Guardiola demanded he had just at any point adulated Atletico's versatility. "He can play how he needs, all I have said is it is extremely difficult to play against them," said Guardiola.
"I have generally regarded this foundation and this group, I could never try to go after this group. Whenever a group knows how to protect like no other group on the planet, it's troublesome."
Neither Simeone nor Guardiola needed to remark on the way of behaving of their players during the match or in the passage.
"I didn't see it," said Simeone. "I was on the pitch extolling the fans. When I went inside there was no one there."
Police entered the passage after full-time as the fights went on between the players, with video film showing Atletico's Stefan Savic yelling at City's Jack Grealish while an exasperated Sime Vrsaljko must be kept away from going up against Kyle Walker. At a certain point, Vrsaljko seems to spit across the passage toward Walker.
UEFA are yet to affirm whether they will open an examination concerning the occurrences.
Atletico's Felipe was shipped off towards the finish of the match subsequent to going after Phil Foden, the Manchester City midfielder who was at that point wearing a wrap around his head from a prior Felipe challenge.
The tackle, and Foden's fall, ignited a fight toward the side of the pitch, as players, substitutes and staff hurried in. The piece hampered Atletico's energy as they pushed for the goal they expected to take the bind to extra-time.
Atletico felt City's players were fooling around.
"I couldn't say whether it was us fooling around or them engaging in idiotic battles," said City safeguard Aymeric Laporte. "We realize what they're similar to and what they've done previously."
Atletico Madrid chief, Koke, expressed: "Heaps of the time we get condemned for these things. So how about we see individuals' thought process of this today. You've seen it so make your own personalities up."
Manchester City will presently confront Real Madrid, with Liverpool facing Villarreal in the other elimination round.
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