The 30-year-old Ramos is a native of Seville and used to play for Sevilla before transferring to Madrid in 2005.
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Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said it “hurt” to lose their long unbeaten run with a 2-1 defeat in Sunday’s pulsating top of the La Liga table clash at Sevilla, but promised that his side would bounce back quickly.
Your current subscription does not provide access to this content. As chants of “Sergio Ramos, hijo de puta” rang around the stadium, he cheekily hit a panenka past the Sevilla goalkeeper, before celebrating by sarcastically cupping his ears and pointing to his name on the back of his shirt. Ramos said he was insulted by some supporters of his former team.
“The goal was a normal game situation”.
Things got heated on Sunday between Real Madrid and Sevilla in La Liga.
This time round, they were on the receiving end as a Sergio Ramos own goal five minutes from time and Stevan Jovetic’s stoppage time victor on his La Liga debut breathed new life into the title race.
Juventus had been seven points clear of second-placed Roma after beating the Giallorossi 1-0 on December 17 and was seemingly on an unstoppable march to a record sixth straight Serie A title.
“We lost the game in a five-minute spell”, said Zidane.
Real Madrid will get a chance to come back from their disappointing results when they head to the Copa del Rey Quarter-final game on January 18th.
A Cristiano Ronaldo penalty gave league leaders Madrid, unbeaten since April 2016, the lead.
Zidane, still without injured trio Gareth Bale, Pepe and Fabio Coentrao, added: “The other day before the Sevilla match there were three or four changes”.
Nico Gaiten scored the only goal of the match as Atletico Madrid won a dour encounter at home to a courageous Betis side that worked hard, but was unable to break down the home defense.
The Portuguese drew level with former Real great Hugo Sanchez and moved 10 penalties ahead of former Barcelona defender Ronald Koeman, who is now third on the list with 46.
Madrid still has a game in hand. “We just have to keep doing what we were doing before”.
Make no mistake, Sevilla played an nearly flawless match, and that’s what it took to get their much-celebrated win.
Then they play the cup second-leg in Vigo and have league fixtures at home to Real Sociedad and away to Celta.
The second goal came after Madrid coughed up a ball inside their own half, but Zidane was keen not to point fingers at any individuals.
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It was the first time Real Madrid have been beaten after a 40-game unbeaten streak in all competitions.
