In a Spanish football talk show, Diego Simeone picked Julian Alvarez as his favourite player.
The freekick along with another goal later in the game takes Alvarez’s goal tally in the league to 17, while his overall goal tally is 29 in what has been a highly successful first season in the Spanish capital.
Alvarez recently moved to Atletico Madrid at the start of current season and has adapted really well to life in Spain and has had a rather successful season under Diego Simeone.
The Brazilian forward turned to Paredes as he was quoted as saying, “you are very bad.” However, Rodrygo got a befitting reply from Paredes as he reminded him of his one FIFA World Cup and two Copa America wins.
In the 2024-25 season, Julian Alvarez has already scored 22 goals and provided five assists in 43 matches in all competitions for Atletico Madrid.
Dutch striker Marco van Basten recently gave his take on this incident saying that Julian Alvarez had touched the ball only once and the decision taken by the VAR was incorrect.
In a bizarre circumstance, a disallowed penalty from Julian Alvarez helped Real Madrid reach the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League.
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