Borussia Dortmund explain touchline clash with Diego Simeone after Champions League defeat | 16GAACD | 2024-04-11 16:08:01
Diego Simeone clashed with Borussia Dortmund's sporting director Sebastian Kehl on the touchline during Atletico Madrid's 2-1 victory in the Champions League on Wednesday night.
First-half objectives from Rodrigo De Paul and Samuel Lino put Atletico in entrance but Sebastien Haller's strike in the 81st minute has handed Dortmund a lifeline ahead of the quarter remaining second leg in Germany subsequent Tuesday.
In a extremely charged environment at the Wanda Metropolitano, tempers boiled over in the second half when Atletico counter-attacked whereas Dortmund midfielder Emre Can was on the ground with an damage.
Simeone and Kehl went head to head whereas the Atletico head coach pushed the Dortmund sporting director twice earlier than being separated.
When asked concerning the confrontation, Kehl stated: 'We shouldn't speak concerning the scene, however about what happened on the pitch. We played an excellent recreation in the second half.
'Emotions come collectively on this state of affairs. Tonight was about standing your floor, that was the case within the state of affairs.
'It wasn't something greater than that. It was about an incident on the pitch. He knows that, I know that after which it was executed. Let's depart it at that.'
In the meantime, Dortmund head coach, Eden Terzic, also played down the spat between Simeone and Kehl.
'That's part of it,' Terzic stated.
'You not only need eleven gamers on the pitch, but in addition all the boys on the bench.
'The fact that things can get scorching in the teaching zone is nothing new and doesn't shock us.'
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