Atletico Madrid chairman insists he doesn’t like VAR.

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Enrique Cerezo is unhappy with VAR for destroying Atletico Madrid Champions League dreams.

Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo remains angry over the aftermath of Julian Alvarez’s controversial penalty in Wednesday’s Champions League last-16 shootout defeat by Real Madrid, and has openly admitt he does not approve of VAR being use to referee football matches.

‘Until Wednesday night we were still in คาสิโนออนไลน์ UFABET ฝากถอนรวดเร็ว เริ่มต้นเล่นง่าย three competitions: the Champions League, the Copa del Rey and La Liga. But on that day, it happened with a system or a tool that was horrible, which is terrible. There is nothing better than hurting other teams. And that is call VAR because they took away one of the biggest aspirations for us, which is to continue playing in the Champions League.’

‘I don’t like VAR, but it’s not like I’m saying this now, I’ve always said this. I don’t criticize VAR for the mistake the other day because it wasn’t the referee’s mistake, it was the VAR’s mistake, I don’t know how they saw the ball touch the same leg of the player twice.’

‘VAR is a controversial tool, it is not safe and above all we all believe that VAR is use to make football fairer and I believe that VAR is use to make football fairer,’ the Atletico Madrid chairman said.