Abidal: Iniesta Had The Right To Berate Cristiano Ronaldo During Barcelona - Real Madrid Clasico

One of the talking points of last Sunday’s El Clasico battle was the verbal volley between Barcelona playmaker, Andres Iniesta, and Real Madrid attacker, Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Portuguese star had accused ‘San Andres’ of diving in one of the challenges during the game, to which the Barca man responded after the game that Cristiano had no room to lecture anyone about diving.

Now, Eric Abidal has joined in the argument as he throws his support behind Iniesta.

“He [Ronaldo] can do whatever he wants on the pitch, like trying to annoy us,” AS quoted Abidal as saying.

“It seems that he protests a lot because for him, everything is bad, but we just continued with our game. It was good that Andres got upset with him so as to show the referee what he was trying to do.”

There were also claims that Gerard Pique had fouled ‘CR9’ inside the box in the second half which some believed deserved a penalty, but Abidal simply shot back: “It was Ronaldo who went looking for the foul.”

The 30-year-old former Lyon defender came close to scoring for his side and although he regretted not finding the back of the net, he was pleased with how things have unfolded for the Blaugrana and for himself over the past week.

“It would have been nice to dedicate the goal to my daughter, who is due in the coming weeks,” he revealed. “But her arrival will be the best possible reward to crown what has been the best week of my life in this club after beating Inter and then Madrid.”    

KS Leong, Goal.com