Thibaut Courtois, Belgian Guard of the Real Madrid, criticized this Saturday La Liga to force them to travel to Pamplona in the middle of the storm and have to play the game against Osasuna and he recalled that they are not “dolls that have to play all the time” and that they must first of all think about the safety of everyone involved.
“We were able to play, but from LaLiga it’s a bit sad what they did to us, (also) Rayo Vallecano and other teams, I think the storm was long known it would happen. Not only because we can play, but also yesterday to take off with the track half frozen, today we cannot return, we still have to go straight to Malaga and LaLiga must think that we are human and that we are not show that always has to play ”, said to Movistar TV.
And it is that in the hours before the meeting, the white box he was caught in the snowfall. First in a plane and then no longer from the airport Pamplona, waiting for the game’s cancellation, which never came and did not allow them to rest properly.
“We do what they ask us, when they tell us if you don’t come, you lose all three points, when you see how Madrid is, how the situation is,” We came to the country with the road full of snow, I think it is not that safe either and first of all we need to think about people’s safety, we have family and we are not dolls that we always have to play ”.
The international Belgian He felt that today they had taken the trouble and were focused to play the game “but you also have to think about the trips, all the logistics, including you and the people who are in the field and then have to return to their homes. “he added. Polite, who thanked Osasuna for the work done so that the field was in an acceptable condition despite the snowfall.
“Of course we wanted to win, because after the trip you want those three points, but hey, it was not easy today, here it is always difficult to play, of course in the icy parts of the field it was not easy to get the get the ball into circulation, We tried, but they defended themselves well and we didn’t have that clarity to create great opportunities “, the archer summed up.
The fact is, you don’t have to worry.