Atletico Madrid’s Champions League progress shows Simeone & Co. have rediscovered their identity

Ralf Rangnick wasn’t happy, and nor were the fans throwing bottles at Diego Simeone as he sprinted up the touchline, dodged missiles and ducked into the tunnel in the corner of Old Trafford. At the end of Manchester United‘s Champions League elimination on Tuesday night, their manager complained about Atletico Madrid‘s “time-wasting antics,” grumbling: “I don’t know if the game as played more than two minutes without being interrupted with someone lying on the floor.”

“Their style is not really for me to comment on,” the United captain Harry Maguire said. “But” — and you knew there was a ‘but’ coming — “every time you touch them, they go down and it’s a foul. They sit behind the…

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