A big fight broke out between the players of Real Madrid and Barcelona after the final whistle at the Santiago Bernabéu.Real Madrid won the match 2-1, and in the last minute of the game, Barcelona’s Pedri received a red card.Then there was real commotion on the bench. Éder Militão and backup keeper Andriy Lunin were booked, but seconds later, things kicked off again when referee César Soto Grado blew his full-time whistle.Several players from both teams clashed, and police and security personnel were forced to intervene.
Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal, center, tussles for the ball with Real Madrid defenders during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Barcelona, in Madrid, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Speaking this week on the Kings League YouTube channel — the seven-a-side football tournament established by Barcelona icon Gerard Piqué — the 18-year-old was asked if Porcinos, a team in the competition, was similar to Real.“Yes, they rob (a reference to refereeing decisions); they complain; they do things…” Yamal replied.It began when Dani Carvajal confronted Lamine Yamal after the wonderkid’s recent comments.Click here to watch the fightReal keeper Thibaut Courtois then joined in and pushed Yamal away as things got heated. Vinícius Júnior tried to challenge Yamal as he was led off by security but was restrained.After the game, Real goal scorer Jude Bellingham took a jibe at Yamal on social media. “Talk is cheap,” he wrote on Instagram.
Lamine Yamal’s father was quick to react, posting several images on Instagram. The first contained a message preparing for the second-leg match: “Thank goodness he’s 18. See you in Barcelona.”
The second was a photo with his son with the following message: “Till death do us part, my ganga.”
Barcelona’s Frenkie de Jong said that the experienced Carvajal, who plays with Yamal in the national team, did not have to confront him in that way.
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“If you are a teammate of Lamine and don’t think he should do that, then you can talk to him privately,” De Jong told Marca.
