Real Madrid manager, Santi Solari has said that Gareth Bale can “celebrate however he wants” after the Wales international looked like he ignored his teammates when netting the crucial penalty in Sunday evening’s 2-1 La Liga win at Levante.
A Real Madrid team who looked distracted ahead of EL Clasico against Barcelona next week got the victory via goals from two penalties assisted by VAR.
Solari said, “Gareth has been celebrating the victory in the dressing-room, with the rest of them,”
“I’m sorry, I did not see [his celebration], what I saw was how hard he worked to help the team. I was delighted that he scored, but above all the spirit he showed on the pitch in the minutes he got, how he helped the team to win the game. When we had 10 players he filled two roles up front. I’d like him like that every day. Once he scores he can celebrate however he wants.”
On VAR, he said, “The problem which we coaches have is that we do not have a monitor,”
“I believe Casemiro who says that he caught him, hit him, on the ankle. I have no doubts if my player tells me. And I’m told the images show the impact clearly. That is why the VAR is there.”
On the clash against Barcelona in the Copadel Rey, his words were, “We always focus on the positive, The other day against Girona we had a dip, and lost three important points. Today we won in a very difficult place to come. We had not beaten Levante for some years. We played a serious game, worked hard, and won. Maybe we could have scored more goals, Vinicius had chances in both halves, which would have made it clearer. We are feeling good going into this week, full of optimism and looking forward to competing.”
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