{"id":235109,"date":"2025-09-18T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235109\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:38:10","slug":"diego-simeone-explains-red-card-after-clash-with-liverpool-fan-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235109\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Simeone explains red card after clash with Liverpool fan – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diego Simeone has explained why he clashed with a Liverpool fan after Virgil van Dijk<\/a>\u2018s late header put Liverpool 3-2 up against Atletico Madrid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Simeone is a passionate man and his touchline theatrics bring much-needed character to the game. However, his emotions can boil over. <\/p>\n

One such instance came after Van Dijk\u2019s winning goal, when the manager ran towards the crowd to his left and angrily confronted a supporter while being held back by stewards. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a person, I\u2019m human,\u201d he declared after the match.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Simeone was subsequently sent off for his actions and later said<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m not really going to get into the exact nature of the insults. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to get involved in that. I don\u2019t want to get into that discussion. I\u2019ve got to, you know, stay in my place. I know what went on behind the manager\u2019s bench. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t solve society\u2019s problems in one press conference. I\u2019ve got to live with it because it exists all over the place all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Simeone was asked if he could say what the referee said to him when sending him off, Simeone replied, \u201cNo,\u201d then left the room.<\/p>\n

The Atletico manager shed some further light on the night\u2019s events, telling Spanish broadcaster Movistar (h\/t the Athletic<\/a>): \u201cThere is a lot of talk about taking care, but they (fans) were shouting insults through the whole game from behind the bench, and I cannot say anything as I am a coach.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously my reaction is not justifiable; I insulted him, but it was 90 minutes of being insulted the whole time. <\/p>\n

\u201cThen you turn around, when your opponent has scored, and they are still insulting you. It is not that easy. The referee understood the situation. I hope that a team like Liverpool can improve that part. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they identify the person who did this, it should have its consequences, but he who needs to stay calm and take the insults is me. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn my place you just have to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simeone raises a good point about the abuse footballers and managers have to take on the chin without response. <\/p>\n

However, it is not a good look to be responding by squaring up to the crowd and physically pushing stewards out of the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diego Simeone has explained why he clashed with a Liverpool fan after Virgil van Dijk\u2018s late header put…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1836,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-235109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-liverpool-fc","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115222512003067109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}