Sergio Ramos is clearly tired of being labeled the pantomime villain of the Champions League.
The defender has largely been blamed for the injury sustained by Mohamed Salah, something he says he is completely innocent in.
There were also reports that he had caused keeper Loris Karius to have a concussion after coming together with him and therefore was partly to blame for the mistakes made by the Liverpool keeper.
The defender in an interview was bemused by the speculation and questioned if perhaps people would blame him if Firmino caught a cold and say that it was caused by a drop of his sweat landing on him.
“Damn, they’ve given this a lot of attention, the Salah thing,” he told reporters, per Cuatro. “I didn’t want to speak because everything is magnified. I see the play well, he grabs my arm first and I fell to the other side, the injury happened to the other arm and they said that I gave him a judo hold.
“After the goalkeeper said that I dazed him with a clash. I am only missing Firmino saying that he got a cold because a drop of my sweat landed on him.”
He said he’s been in contact with Salah and that the two were on cordial terms
“I spoke with Salah through messages, and he was quite good,” he added. “He could have played if he got an injection for the second half, I have done it sometimes but when Ramos does something like this, it sticks a little bit more.
“I don’t know if it’s because you’re at Madrid for so long and win for so long that people look at it a different way.”