Atlético’s bad game has been generating a runrún with the passing of the minutes that has ended in anger. In the final stretch of the second half, and with the fans demanding a step forward, Giménez has faced the stands, which from that moment on has dedicated several resounding whistles to him every time he touched the ball. Patience ran out at the Metropolitan.
It was the 80th minute and Giménez was driving the ball up into his own half. When he reaches the midfield line he stops and touches horizontally towards Herrera. That causes the anger of the fans and the whistles on her part. The center-back immediately turns to the side left to his left and orders silence. That triggers a bigger whistle and that, every time he touched the ball, he was punished with more whistles. Nevertheless, part of the stands did applaud him and cheered him later in some sections, chanting his name until the whistles about him ran out.
Giménez, in addition, was a last-minute incorporation, since He has overcome the coronavirus and a PCR at the last minute prevented him from entering the call and directly to eleven. But his performance, like that of practically all his teammates, was poor and ended up driving the fans of the Wanda Metropolitano to despair.
Giménez apologizes after the gesture
Minutes after the gesture towards the stands, the Uruguayan wanted to apologize to the fans through the club’s media for the gesture and acknowledged that his whistles hurt. The Uruguayan was seen very sorry for what he experienced. “I am sad, hurt, these are football situations and you can only move forward based on results. I would like it to be seen how this team trains, because it is admirable from the one that does not play anything to the one that plays everything, leaving everything in training. Later in the games things don’t work out, it hurts a lot, but I don’t see any other way than to make an effort. The people of Atlético know how much love I have for them. I am what I am thanks to them, I would have been nothing in my career without them. If they felt rebuked or something that they know is not so.
They are moments with so much nervousness, desire to win and things don’t happen and that sector of the stands reproaches me for it, it hurt me a lot. But this is a family and in families there are fights. Apologize to the people in the sector who whistled at me, that they do not take it as something to get angry at. I am not that type of person to recriminate something, but in moments of tension and nervousness we are tense and angry and they cause us to commit acts that we regret or that we did not want to do. I apologize wholeheartedly to people who took it badly, I apologize wholeheartedly, I have no problem asking them one by one, that’s not where the anger is.”