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‘We laughed!’ - Stefan Savic reacts to Marcus Thuram’s bizarre ball game that saw him hit below the belt during Atletico Madrid’s thrilling Champions League triumph over Inter

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<p>The Liga giants are through to the quarter-finals of continental competition after <a href="https://www.goal.com/en/lists/atletico-madrid-jan-oblak-diego-simeone-inter-milan-champions-league/blt1f519389333ddd1c" target="_blank">prevailing in a last-16 penalty shootout with rivals from Serie A</a>. Diego Simeone’s side held their nerve after the contest ended 2-2 on aggregate.</p>

WHAT HAPPENED?

<p>Former Manchester City defender Savic had plenty to celebrate afterwards and was able to make light of a “strange situation” in extra-time that saw him grabbed in a rather sensitive area by Inter forward Thuram. The Montenegro international told <em>TNT Sports</em> of Thuram’s hit below the belt: “It was a strange situation because I’m not used to it! But it’s okay, it can happen in the game. It’s okay. We laughed after that and I don’t know… It’s a strange situation but it’s not so important.”</p><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Marcus Thuram certainly left his mark on Stefan Savic... 😳<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UCL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UCL</a> <a href="https://t.co/QJVfrj1pYG">pic.twitter.com/QJVfrj1pYG</a></p>— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) <a href="https://twitter.com/footballontnt/status/1768036872033284313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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WHAT SAVIC SAID ABOUT THURAM

<p>Savic preferred to focus on Atletico’s progress into the last eight, adding: “It’s amazing. It’s a dream night for us. If I wasn’t today on the pitch today, I would like to be in the stands to watch a game like this. It was an incredible game, like a final of the Champions League. It was amazing. I’m very happy that we won this game because we were in a very difficult situation. Nobody believed in us except our amazing fans and the team. We knew that we needed to fight until the end, we knew it would be a long game. The boss said before the game, ‘Prepare everybody, be ready, because it’s going to be a long night’, and it was a long night and all the guys that entered showed the same spirit, the same bravery. We are very happy for the boys.”</p>

THE BIGGER PICTURE

<p>Atletico will discover their quarter-final opponents when the next Champions League draw takes place on Friday, with <a href="https://www.goal.com/en/lists/champions-league-2023-24-power-rankings/blt3ac63471089224b7" target="_blank">a star-studded line-up</a> also seeing Manchester City, Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund make it to that stage.</p>

WHAT NEXT?

‘We laughed!’ - Stefan Savic reacts to Marcus Thuram’s bizarre ball game that saw him hit below the belt during Atletico Madrid’s thrilling Champions League triumph over Inter | Goal.com UK

Stefan Savic has laughed off Marcus Thuram’s bizarre ball game during Atletico Madrid’s thrilling Champions League triumph over Inter.

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