Dwarf game, naughty game.
At the end of October, the heavy defeat conceded by Real Madrid against Barça in the Classic (0-4) reminded supporters of Meringues painful memories. At the start of the 2010s, during the Catalan club's most prosperous era, the Madrilenians often suffered against Leo Messi's gang. A period well remembered by Ángel Di María who, in an interview given to the Argentine media Clankreturned to one of Real's rare victories at the time during the 2011 Copa del Rey final, in Valencia, after extra time.
“The only way to beat this Barcelona team was to hit”
« The match at Mestalla was very tough. This final was blows, blows, blows, remembered The Noodle. I hit Leo who was going on the counter. I hit him, then I went to pick him up and said to him: “Sorry, 'Dwarf', but if I didn't foul you, you could have scored us a goal.” I had no other option. It played like that, it was impossible to stop. The only way to beat this Barcelona team was to hit, to score and run more than them. At times, I was even afraid that we would hurt the “Dwarf” (Lionel Messi). It worried me more than anything else that nothing happened to him. »
Given the common experience in selection afterwards, we understand why.
Real Madrid is the La Liga club that uses its substitutes the least
