India, April 30 -- In a match where two penalties proved decisive, the one taken away became the talking point. Atletico Madrid and Arsenal traded strikes from the spot in a Champions League semi-final first leg that wasn't as astonishing as the one in Paris but just as absorbing and, maybe, more attritional. And more controversial.

With the match poised at 1-1, Dutch referee Danny Makkelie needed 13 replays to decide that David Hancko's contact with Eberechi Eze in the 78th minute was not enough for the Arsenal player to have gone down. It left Mikel Arteta "incredibly fuming", the Arsenal manager calling the decision "completely unacceptable" and one that can "change the course of a tie."

Arteta had television pundits agreeing with hi...