Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has spoken about the Clasico clash with Lamine Yamal after an angry end to the meeting between the two sides at the Santiago Bernabu.
Yamal wound up some Real Madrid players with some playful pre-match comments, with Dani Carvajal and Courtois both confronting the Barcelona teenager after the match.
Courtois has now spoken about the events and says he has no problem with Yamal, although he admits his words did fire up Los Blancos.
“For me, Lamine is a great player and will be a player who will mark an era at Barça, I think, but well, in the end he spoke in a certain way, he heated up the game a bit and obviously the press jumped on him,” he told COPE.
“When we’re feeling really intense and full of adrenaline, sometimes you say things that you later regret, ‘Well, that wasn’t necessary.’ But I think that’s what a Clásico is like.
“Sometimes we need that atmosphere too, and I think that after last year when we lost four times, we also need that fire from an enemy again, and we have to go after them because even when they’ve won, they haven’t shown us any respect.
“Carva or Huijsen are in the national team and I think there’s zero problem with Lamine. It’s something that stays on the field and there’s nothing going on off it. If I see Lamine in a restaurant tomorrow, I’ll say hello. I don’t think there’s any problem between Lamine and me.”
