Shower fiasco before Champions League tie, top club complain to UEFA | OneFootball

This evening, FC Arsenal hosts Atlético Madrid at 9 PM for a home game in the Champions League, and the signs for Diego Simeone's team are quite unfavorable. At least if you look at the Spaniards' last training session.

Because on the last evening before the CL showdown, the Madrilenians trained as usual at the English stadium to prepare for the game. Then came the nasty surprise, as reported by 'Marca': Instead of warming up under a hot shower, only ice-cold water flowed from the pipes.

At 6:45 PM local time, during the training session, Arsenal officials were informed about this issue. The Spaniards' training was supposed to last until 7:30 PM, but when Simeone and his team returned to the locker room at 7:15 PM, there was still no sign of hot water.

According to the English 'Sun', hot water started flowing again at 7:25 PM, but by then, the stars of Atlético Madrid had already fled back to the team hotel.

The team around Antoine Griezmann was reportedly very "angry," "surprised," and "confused." They do not understand how such a modern stadium could fail to meet such basic requirements.

The club bosses of Atlético immediately filed a complaint with UEFA. According to the 'Mirror', Arsenal officials have already apologized to their opponents. They do not know how something like this could ever happen, said the Londoners.

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