Barcelona supervisor Xavi Hernandez upbraided the ref and said his exhibition cost Barcelona an opportunity to battle for a spot in the Bosses Association semi-finals after they lost 4-1 to Paris Holy person Germain and were taken out of the opposition on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST).
In the wake of winning 3-2 in Paris last week and taking a 1-0 lead with an early Raphinha objective in the quarter-last second leg, Barca were down to 10 men not long before the half-hour after last man Ronald Araujo was shown a red card for a foul on Bradley Barcola.
Xavi whined sharply to ref Istvan Kovacs and turned out to be shown a red card himself, which didn't stop him returning to the pitch at the last whistle to voice his disappointment again at the Romanian authority after Barca's 6-4 total misfortune.
"The arbitrator was downright terrible. I let him know his exhibition was a catastrophe. I could do without to discuss officials, yet it had an unmistakable effect in the season and it must be said," Xavi told Movistar In addition to.
"We are extremely vexed and furious on the grounds that the red card was the definitive consider the match. With 11 we were in a decent position, playing great and in order.
"It's a lot to streak a red card in a game like this. There was one more game after that ... It is a pity that crafted by the season was demolished by a pointless ejection."
"I didn't see the play (in which Araujo was shipped off). I just had the inclination that Barcola's control worked out positively ahead him and into the goalkeeper's hands ... We attempted from that point onward, however we were unable to do any longer."
Dortmund, in the mean time, scored two times in the principal half and seemed to journey into the last four, yet Atletico returned quickly with two objectives from the get-go in the final part to put them on the ropes before they dug profound to finish a wonderful rebound.
The game got off to a flying beginning, and midfielder Marcel Sabitzer was just kept from putting the home side ahead in the third moment by a last-ditch block from Cesar Azpilicueta as the home side came flying from the starting position.
Julian Brandt put Dortmund level on total in the 34th moment, locking on to a splendid pass from Mats Hummels and discharging home, and after five minutes Dortmund started to lead the pack in the quarter-last tie as Ian Maatsen cut in from the left and bored an impeccably positioned took shots in at the foot of the far post.
Tove Svendson