Kristiansen, after his entry into Lamine: “It was like ‘Hey, I’m not afraid of you'”

Lamine Yamal ended the Spain-Denmark Nations League match played in Murcia with a limp after a round of tough tackles, especially late in the clash received by the FC Barcelona winger. Now, both the national team and especially Barça are well aware that their discomfort is only a product of the blows received, that Spain-Serbia next Tuesday is in doubt and the concern of their club away, a few days before facing two major matches. in the Champions League and in the League, against Bayern and Real Madrid. As seen in recent weeks, rivals have made a habit of trying to stop the culé talent in any way possible, with Villarreal-Barça and the kicks of Sergi Cardona and Ilias Akomach only being punished with yellow card The same color card was worthy of the search for Lamine’s legs on Saturday in Spain-Denmark for his relentless marker, Victor Kristiansen, who in the 85th minute was finally warned by the Slovak referee that Ivan Kruzliak. The most remarkable thing, however, is that the 21-year-old left-back admitted to the press in his country that he followed a strategy to try to remove the sixteen-year-old star from the game. “It’s simply saying ‘hey, I’m in the match too,’ I’m not afraid of you,” said the 21-year-old Leicester defender, in remarks reported by Danish media Ekstra Bladet.

For this newspaper with 120 years of experience, the behavior of the Danish defender was “completely intentional”, already attacking the Spanish megastar Lamine Yamal “with force at the beginning of the match”. According to his interpretation, Kristiansen wanted to psyche up his opponent and was happy with his own efforts. Even Ekstra Bladet detailed that he had not played many minutes when VK, as the famous Danish player, “in one situation he physically hit the winger and after the match he admitted that it was completely intentional” with the goal of “Getting into the head of great talent and try to show who makes the decisions.

The Danish defender himself recognized that “if there is an opportunity to have a good rivalry, which can hurt ‘a little’, then you have to take advantage of it,” said VK.

Explaining his plan, VK said that “it’s always difficult to define the criteria of success when you face a skilled winger, because you can win every duel for 89 minutes, and then he scores at the end, and then it will be the same.” In his opinion, “Spain made it easier for me by allowing Pedro Porro to overlap so that we could be free and I could manage his career.” The quality of Lamine justified that approach for VK. “He is a skilled and skilled player and really good at a young age. He will be one of the best players for many years,” he predicted. The card Kristiansen received for one of his tackles on Lamine will keep him out of the game against Switzerland, which awaits him on Tuesday.