Real Madrid’s Higuain plays down Ronaldo row with Xabi
Gonzalo Higuain has played down Cristiano Ronaldo's strop over Xabi Alonso's penalty for Real Madrid on Sunday.
The pair appeared to disagree over who should take the penalty which resulted in Madrid's sixth goal and Ronaldo did not celebrate with his team-mates after Alonso eventually converted it.
The exchange between the two was later broadcast by Spanish TV station Canal+ but Higuain is not attaching too much importance to it.
"These are circumstances of the game, Xabi had the vision of scoring his first goal for Madrid and nothing more," he said.
Higuain was himself chief penalty taker last year, a job he was not overly disappointed about losing.
"If I'm called upon then I'll take it, but the takers are as previously designated," he said.
"Kaka takes them very well, has not missed any, and so do Cristiano, Raul... and Xabi did very well."
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Comments (6)
I strongly believed it was wrong to take away the ball from cristiano after it was initially handed over to him by captain raul, that should have been final, i think ronaldo should be respected as a big player on that team and the rest of the players should know that he and kaka will bear much of the burden if they do not deliver, for the fact a huge amount was paid to bring them over to do a job that could not be done for some time, i see too many envy on real team and this is why they some times struggle to deliver, to a point all barca players hailed messi and play for him all the time, they allow him to take free kicks and penalties with no objection cuz they know he is their mask man, this is lacking at madred and they coach needs to take responsibility for some of these things, i believed ronaldo can do more than what he did at madred if only he can get the support of the coach and team mates, real needs to learn from barca, they also have big players too but they give messi all the support cuz they believed in his abilities, i don't see any signs of envy when they are playing.
ud actually expect behaviour like this from Ronaldo, may be its just his reputation ....
It's not just Tribal reporting this... see ESPN, Sky Sports, Goal.com all report the same story. Plus they directly quote Higuain as saying these things in his press conference yesterday.
As much as Madrid fans cry conspiracy, Tribal isn't making this story/headline up. Can't blame a website for reporting news just because it's not news you'd like to see.
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