After Saturday night’s match between Real Madrid and Villarreal, which ended in a 2-3 win for el Submarino Amarillo ended, it came to a confrontation between Federico Valverde and Alex Baena at the visitors’ team bus. This is reported by various media. The Uruguayan midfielder of Real would have deliberately waited for his opponent to deal blows in the face.
Reliable media such as Mark and The Athletic write about the incident, which did not come out of the blue. Valverde and Baena were already fighting each other during the match and twice it seemed to turn into a fight. Afterwards, it actually came to a confrontation. Real’s controller promised to wait for his 21-year-old opponent during the match and that got completely out of hand. The fighting parties could be kept apart with difficulty and before that time Valverde dealt several punches in the face of Baena.
The fight would have been captured on video by people from Villarreal and the club is now considering filing a report with the police. Screenshots are already circulating on social media of a message from Xisco Nadal, team manager of Villarreal, who has called Valverde a coward. The camp around the Uruguayan has also responded to the incident and confirmed that blows have been dealt, but also made it clear that Baena has not been impeccable.
Played in January the Royal already against Villarreal in the Copa del Rey (2-3 win by Real in the Estadio de la Cerámica) and then Baena would have told Valverde that ‘he should cry now that his son would not see the light of day’. At the time, Valverde’s wife was in danger of losing their second child because of complications during the pregnancy. In the end, the child was born healthy, but Valverde had not forgotten the comments and promised during the game that he would stand up for his family.