For the most part I actually agree with you. Deserved winners is a bad choice of words -- they made the plays they had to make over the two legs so Atletico deserved their victory but I agree with you on the whole that Atletico's football and time wasting were a real turn off yesterday. It isn't fair to call them lucky -- they've done this too much to too many good sides for it to be luck. They win in a very hard fashion - they know they're only going to craft 2 or 3 real chances in a match and have to convert one in order to win and somehow they usually do.Say i´m a sore loser, (as a german i have to support the germans of course,) but in no way was that a deserved win/advancing for Atletico.
They were the more clever and more efficient team, as they always seem, but that´s it. If you want that kind of football to be rewarded through advancing or even winning the CL, that´s a weak choice. If you want them to win because you´re a fan, i get it. But this team full of douchebags, the biggest clown standing on the sideline, playing the timewasting game from the first minute on is cancer for the eyes. And advancing because of 20 good minutes in Madrid is deserved? Sorry, but Bayern was just too dumb to score the away goal. They had their chances and didn´t score. Even in this game, they just didn´t make it and couldn´t get to the final pass enough, it seemed, although they had more chances than Atletico and a 2-0 at the half or a 3-1 was still within possibility. I got to admit with better caretaking of the counters, Atletico could have made it 1-2 and killed the tie, but they didn´t even made it cross the middleline in many occasions.
The only guys i could be happy about advancing being Griezmann and Torres, the others being mostly dirty players looking to play the spanish game (e.g. kicking the ball away before each throw in to earn another 8 seconds, it´s childish and annoying). I could understand those actions in the last few minutes if you´re about to advance and want to save every second, but really, start the game that way, too? That´s just a weak show of performing football and then seeing Simeone waving around the sideline more often than both assistants combined is so annoying, I just can´t think anything else than "when is finally someone of his own players sliding in a tackle and breaking Simeone´s knee while going over the sideline!?!" - I admit, i respect his passion for the game, his teams play great defense, but when you have certain ways to use your brain and to conduct yourself, especially in public, you don´t act like that guy. I hate him.
Now i can just hope that City advances (chances being really small), as when the final is Real vs. Atletico, this will be a game full of douchebags and theatrics (think Marcelo vs. Juanfran, OMG). Good luck Manchester City (of course, I will jinx them )!!
I don't have a problem with the defensive tactics but I find it harder and harder to celebrate Atletico's achievement year after year because of all the gamesmanship. They walk a very fine line between a gritty, hard nosed football team and an annoying bunch of whiners and time wasters.
In a lot of ways, yesterday was as vulnerable as Atletico has looked in one of these matches for a while. I think Bayern 2 or 3 nils them most nights if they play like that, the chances were certainly there. I tend to associate Atletico with smothering the other team out of the match more than they did. The holes were there and Bayern didn't take their chances. I don't htink this has much to do with Pep, either. Over the two legs the players had ample opportunities to score and put the tie to rest and they weren't able to. As much as anyone, I love to look at the tactics but especially against a packed in defense it ultimately comes down to taking the chances as they are presented.
As a neutral, I can celebrate what Atletico does and give them the credit they deserve while admitting that I'd hate to see the way they play become the norm. Bayern played the kind of football we should all want to see played. I don't have much of a problem with teams like Atletico existing as a check and balance to overly attacking football but it is pretty dreadful stuff in general.