Ramos' 45 minutes in the Madrid locker room and Ancelotti's irony: "If I say what I think, games will fall for me"

Sergio Ramos smiled as he greeted the Real Madrid players for the first time. 856 days had passed, almost two and a half years, since his tearful farewell in Valdebebas. And he smiled almost three hours later, when he left the white team's locker room after 45 minutes had passed after the match had ended.. The Camas center-back, who spent his entire life dressed in white, finished as Sevilla's MVP in his third match against Madrid. He remains undefeated, two draws and one defeat, always as a Sevilla player, against the club to which he gave La Décima.

The Andalusian defender was imperial in a trench match. Fine with the ball, with a 94% success rate in the pass, with three aerial balls won, with several miraculous interceptions when Madrid was scoring a goal and with a stick, after a save by Kepa, when the entire Pizjuán celebrated the 2-1.

In the war that the duel became as the minutes passed, Ramos was the king. He played like no one else in the madness of the duel, laughing with Rüdiger and confronting him afterwards, having a loving touch with Vinicius first and later pushing him in the middle of the small fight that formed at the end of the match. «I loved seeing him. I wish him the best,” declared Ancelotti.

And Ramos and Rüdiger went from 0 to 100 in seven minutes. They hugged while laughing when they struggled in a corner and a few plays later they faced each other as if they wanted to kill each other.. The Andalusian stretched out the German's face while he grabbed him and, already in the distance, they met in the locker room tunnel.. When De Burgos whistled for half-time, they trotted towards the stairs. This is how they live football. After the final whistle they hugged, whispering something in each other's ears, thinking that everything stays on the battlefield.

Reunion with Modric

After the duel, Ramos spent almost an hour in the Madrid locker room. One after another, the white footballers left for the bus while one player was still inside with him: Luka Modric, one of the Andalusian's best friends.. The Croatian and Ramos made their teammates wait a little, but after a while they appeared through the door. First Ramos, accompanied by his children and still dressed in shorts, and then Modric, the last Real Madrid player to leave Nervión.

It was the end of a stressful afternoon, in which Sevilla ended up issuing a statement announcing that they had expelled a fan for making racist chants and Carlo Ancelotti used irony in the press room so as not to show in public and with words his anger with From Burgos Bengoetxea. The Italian, aware that he has a classic against Barcelona, in Montjuic, in just a week, did not want to criticize and answered “very well” to everything he was asked about the referee.. The coach ended the game with a yellow card, something quite unusual: “I think the referee played a good game, right in everything.”. He stopped the counter to preserve the health of a player. “My opinion is that he played a high-level game.”

Questioned again about De Burgos' work, the Italian insisted on his positive answers: “He got everything right.”. I'm seriously. In the end I asked him about my yellow, but nothing more. Because I don't understand her, she wasn't talking to him, but to Camavinga,” he explained, adding that “the referee did well to separate the players” during the final fight.. Again, Ancelotti was being ironic.

“Irony is the only way”

Later, at the microphones of Real Madrid Television, and after returning from the bus, Carletto was much more forceful. «Irony is the only way because if I say what I think, many matches fall to me. And what I like the most is sitting on the Real Madrid bench so, to avoid suspensions, I don't say what I think.. Shot of irony.

Regarding the team, the Italian highlighted the work of Bellingham and Rodrygo, who despite not scoring said that “he was one of the best in the game.”. «The first half we were good, generating many opportunities. We were very close to scoring, but in the second everything became complicated for us, we lacked intensity,” he summarized. On Tuesday, Braga, and on Saturday, Barcelona.