"When I saw the Real Madrid players running I just prayed to God"

The matches between Mallorca and Real Madrid in recent years have become little classics and the protagonists are two: Pablo Maffeo and Vinicius. After the draw, the former spoke about what the opener against Real Madrid was like.

"I think it was good to settle the rivalry with Vini for both of us. I told him that it was silly for us to be fighting all day because it doesn't help the image of either of us. He told me that everything was fine. I don't have any problem with him, nor he with me," he told “Gol TV”.

There was an action in the last Mallorca-Real Madrid match in which the 'Merengues' players and fans called for a red card for the full-back: "Stopping the image, you can see that I stepped on him. I'm lucky that the fourth official is there and he sees the intensity with which I make the movement. I just want to drag the ball. For me it's not hard, but it's true that if you stop the image I understand that people can say it's a red card, but for me it's a yellow".

Maffeo suffered from Real Madrid's attacks, which mainly targeted the left side of the attack: "When I saw them running towards me, I just prayed to God and asked myself what I was doing there. It was nice because in the end everyone wants to play these games against these players, but I can't move.

Despite the rivalry with Vinicius, the Argentinian-born Spaniard is clear that the Ballon d'Or could go to the Brazilian: "For me, he's the best in the world in his position. He could very well win it. If they give it to him and he wins it, it will be for a reason. The truth is that he has done and is doing things very well and if they give it to him it's because I think he was very good last year".