Former Real Madrid player Omar Mascarell, who faced them for RCD Mallorca in the Spanish Super Cup final, has asked the media to give an honest account of the conflict between the two teams on Thursday evening. Both teams were involved in heated arguments at the end of the match, which continued down the tunnel.
The target of Real Madrid's ire was Pablo Maffeo, who has an ongoing feud with Vinicius Junior, and Aurelien Tchouameni named him at the end of the match.
“In every match we have a problem with one player, people got angry, but the most important thing is to win the match. We don't want to talk about him because that's what he wants.”
A few weeks ago, Maffeo had said in an interview that he would 'knock out Vinicius in 10 seconds', a headline that made it across to the Spanish capital, but without the context. Mascarell explains that the Real Madrid players did their best to provoke Maffeo.
“They made the headlines they wanted. Obviously he's joking, but they had it in mind. From the moment he went to the ground in the first half, everyone went after him. We are a family and we will defend Maffeo to the death. The media that want to release the images will see clearly what happened.”
“I was the first to see the video interview and it was clearly a joke. But what the Madrid team achieves is only the headline. They had it very much in mind, but for us it doesn't matter,” he explained to Marca.
Mascarell is pro-Real Madrid in every respect, but believes his former team and his current team's press coverage have not been fair.
“In the end it seems that, and I tell you this, I came from Madrid's youth academy and I have a special affection for the club. They portray us as the bad guys and I don't think that should be the case.” .”
“We come to compete, the fights that happen on the field stay on the field. There are times in the game when they are looking for you and it seems like only we are looking for the fight. “It's not right and the cameras are there and you can clearly see the game was heated by both teams.”
Maffeo came under heavy criticism from Real Madrid players, while RCD Mallorca veteran Dani Rodriguez had some nice words for Raul Asencio at the end of the match.
“I spent four years at Valdebebas. I don't blame anyone, but everyone should be consistent with their actions. “But I want to make it clear that I don't want Mallorca to be the bad guy because you can clearly see that the attacks have been from both teams and everything has to stay on the pitch.”
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