Diego Simeone leaves entire room speechless with press conference question after Julian Alvarez controversy

Diego Simeone left everyone speechless during his press conference on the back of Atletico Madrid's controversial exit from the Champions League.

On Wednesday night, Atletico's Champions League dream turned into a horrible nightmare as they fell to an agonising shootout defeat against cross-town rivals Real Madrid.

Conor Gallagher's goal inside the first minute was enough to level the tie on aggregate and send the clash all the way to penalties.

During the shootout, there was a hugely controversial moment as Julian Alvarez saw his kick disallowed by VAR after being adjudged to have made contact with the ball twice.

Eventually, Real went through after winning 4-2 in the shootout, with Antonio Rudiger scoring the winning penalty.

Multiple angles of the incident have since circulated on social media, with some of them showing the faintest of touches from Alvarez's standing foot.

After the match, Simeone was asked to comment on the incident during his press conference.

Diego Simeone leaves entire room speechless as he breaks silence on Julian Alvarez's controversial penalty

However, in true Simeone style, he switched the attention back to the reporters as he asked: "If anyone from here has seen Julian touch the ball twice, raise your hand. Come on... no? No one?" You can watch the footage below.

Diego Simeone: "If anyone from here has seen Julian touch the ball twice, raise your hand. Come on... no? No one?"pic.twitter.com/CS41vfzCWs

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Simeone added: "I just saw the image of the penalty. The referee said that when Julián stepped and kicked, he touched the ball with his foot, but the ball didn’t move.

"That’s something to discuss about whether it was a goal or not, but I’m proud of my players."

He continued: "When he plants his foot and kicks, the ball doesn’t move even a little bit.

"But if VAR called it, I’ve never seen a penalty called by VAR, but it’s still valid, and they’ll have seen that he touched it. I want to believe they’ll have seen that he touched it."

Atletico are back in La Liga action this weekend when they take on Barcelona at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano on Sunday night.