Thibaut Courtois, Belgian Guard a real Madrid, criticized on Saturday LaLiga because he forced them to travel in Pamplona in the middle of the storm and having to play the game against Osasuna and he remembered that they are not “puppets that must always play” and that, first of all, they must think about the safety of all those involved.
“We managed to play, but from LaLiga it’s a bit unfortunate what they did to us, (and) Rayo Vallecano and other teams, I think the storm has long been known to happen. Not only because we can play, but also yesterday to take off with the half-frozen runway, today we can not go back, we have to go directly to Malaga and LaLiga must think that we are human and that we are not a show that must always play, ”he said Movistar TV.
And in the hours before the meeting, white box he was caught in the snow. First on a plane and then unable to move from the airport in Pamplona, waiting for the cancellation of the game, which never came and did not allow them to rest properly.
“We do what they ask us to do, if they tell us that if you don’t come, you lose all three points, if you see what Madrid is like, what the situation is like We came to the country with the snowy road, I don’t think it’s so safe and first of all we have to think about people’s safety, we have a family and we are not puppets that we always have to play ”.
international player Belgian He said that today they made the effort and focused on playing the game, “but you also have to think about travel, all the logistics, and you and the people who are on the field and then have to go home,” he added. he. Polite, who thanked Osasuna for the work done to keep the ground in an acceptable condition despite the snow.
“Obviously, we wanted to win, because after the trip you want to have those three points, but hey, it was not easy today, here it is always difficult to play, obviously in the frozen parts of the field it was not easy to put the ball in circulation , We tried, but they defended well and we didn’t have that clarity to create great opportunities. “, summed up the archer.
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