Diego Simeone criticized and obliged to apologize for the "dark" celebration of the crotch

Diego Simeone expressed his regret for his strange celebration that took place in the crotch, while he explained a not so subtle meaning behind that.

Jose Maria Giminez and Diego Godin both scored. Atletico Madrid beat Juventus 2-0 to put a foot in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

But the strange behavior of the sidelines of their coach has attracted attention at an evening of farce and drama VAR in Spain.

Simeone told the story of his controversial "cojones" celebration – and said that was his way of saying that his team had a lot of nonsense.

He apologized to anyone who was unhappy with his actions.

He said: "I did it as a Lazio-Bologna player and I repeated it to show our fans that we had cojones.

"It was not about the other team, I was turning to our own fans

"It's not a nice move, I admit, but I felt the need to do it, it was such a difficult match, we fought so hard and Diego Costa worked hard when he was not 100%.

"I had to show how I felt, I can only apologize if someone was offended, but I did it with the heart."

Simeone has been linked to Chelsea – if they separate from the manager Maurizio Sarri.

But as his team is well positioned to progress, Blues hopes to find him before the summer.

He expects Atletico to "suffer" during the return leg in Turin.

"We had a good performance against Borussia Dortmund," he added.

"We got some big players like Koke and Costa, we were able to play a smart game against a huge team with very strong players.

"We had to make the most of every possible situation, which is a very good result.

"We know we are facing a big team, a big club and some great champions in Turin and we expect to suffer in the second leg."

Viewers took to twitter to hit and Argentina.

One of them said: "The sinister actions of a sinister man! while another wrote, "Why does he think we want to see that?"