“I don’t know if he saw any of the game.”

Yellow for himself, almost yellow-red for Sadio Mané: After Liverpool’s 0-1 win in Madrid, Jürgen Klopp accused Atletico of a nasty “scam” – now Anfield must make things right again.

For Diego Simeone, the win over Liverpool began well before kick-off. “On the way to the stadium” his team “started to win,” the Atletico coach explained after the 1-0 victory in the Champions League first round of 16: it was the best atmosphere of his eight-year term in office.

The coach himself showed during the 90 minutes why Jürgen Klopp had rated him eight emotion levels above himself the day before. Simeone, once again dressed all in black, animated the fans non-stop, Klopp even said: “I don’t know if Diego even saw the game.