Madrid after the Clásico: "Since the Spanish national team became Barcelona-like, I haven't followed it."

Madrid"Lamine Yamal should eat a lot more soup and learn from a veteran like Dani Carvajal. Carvajal did him a favor," said Javier, 51, a Real Madrid member since he was ten. He does a haircut in the sun while sitting on one of the terraces in the Arganzuela neighborhood of Madrid. Read the Brand He's happy while he's talking to the ARA and only regrets that Real Madrid didn't score more goals against Barça. He didn't go to the stadium because he gave his season ticket to his nephew, but he believes he would have surely whistled at Lamine Yamal at some point. That was the tone at the Bernabéu every time the Barça number 10, who had a mediocre game due to a groin pain that affects him, touched the ball. Lamine Yamal has become Real Madrid's number one enemy.

His comments on a program about the Kings League, a competition in which he presides over a team and in which, with an ironic tone, he said that Real Madrid usually enjoys refereeing favors, dogged him throughout the match. At the end of the match, Carvajal, Courtois, and Vinícius chased him. He responded to the provocations by summoning them inside the locker room. As captain, Frenkie de Jong would explain in the mixed zone at the Bernabéu that Carvajal, captain of Real Madrid and the Spanish national team, could have asked Lamine Yamal for an explanation under more professional circumstances. Real Madrid's Tchouaméni spoke openly, but he didn't do so to attack the winger from Rocafonda; quite the opposite. He came to say that he likes it when players say things like that.

Carvajal, in a populist mood, went looking for trouble at the end of the Clásico, when his team already had a victory in their bag and in front of their fans. Real Madrid fans were furious with Lamine Yamal, who the night before the match had shared an image on his Instagram reminiscing about the goal he had scored last season at the Bernabéu. If De Jong also mentioned the fact that Carvajal could have found another way to exchange opinions, it's because the two are teammates on the Spanish national team. Real Madrid fans must accept, with the World Cup just months away, that the biggest star of the Spanish national team is from Barça.

"I'm not particularly motivated by the national team, but I'm going to follow the World Cup. They're different things. If Lamine Yamal scores a goal in the World Cup final, I'll celebrate it like I celebrated Iniesta's goal in the 2010 final," Javier concludes. Marcelo, also a Real Madrid fan, doesn't agree. He's retired and enjoying a café con leche while discussing the match with his wife and a couple of friends, who prefer not to comment. However, Marcelo doesn't mince his words when it comes to saying that "since the World Cup has ended, I've been doing it for a long time." Barcelonanized"He doesn't follow the Spanish national team anymore. "I don't want to know anything," he says. He didn't go to the stadium because he says he gets "very nervous in these types of games," but he considers Lamine Yamal's words, in which he accused Madrid of giving referees preferential treatment, "a lack of respect for his teammates": "He's very young," he opines. Marcelo can't get enough: "What happened is that he had a mentor who is a real black sheep, a real black sheep: Gerard Piqué!"

Despite his disagreement with Lamine Yamal and his animosity toward Barça, he also believes that Vinícius and Carvajal made a mistake. "Vinícius should focus on playing and listening to the coach. And what Carvajal did isn't right either; it doesn't reflect well on Madrid's image." Lorenzo and María expressed similar sentiments, sitting on the covered terrace of the same bar on Ferrocarril Street, but at a different table. "We watched the game at home, after lunch, with the family. We don't like brawls. It's not right. Football is a sport, and there should be rivalry between Barça and Madrid, but not like this," Lorenzo says, shaking his head and still smiling kindly.

During the match, Vinícius and Lamine Yamal went after each other. The Brazilian mockingly told him that he only made back passes. Vinícius, who got really angry when he was substituted and went straight to the locker room after standing up to Xabi Alonso and saying "I'm leaving, I'm leaving this club," returned to the bench for the final minutes of the match. He ended up confronting the Barça substitutes, demanding Pedri's red card and didn't hesitate to participate in the final brawl. The first thing to light the flame was Carvajal.

Like in the days of Pep Guardiola and Mourinho, they've brought the brawls back to the Clásico, along with the tension. From the "fucking owner"" Guardiola's reference to Mourinho in Lamine Yamal's "Madrid ropa" (Madrid clothes). Back then, the Spanish national team was packed with players from both teams; now, the Catalans win in a team where the Barcelona number 10 is the star and Carvajal is an increasingly outdated veteran.