Cuti Romero held nothing back 🗣️
In the middle of the first half of the derby between Atlético de Madrid and Real Madrid, the Argentine defender came face-to-face with Jude Bellingham, and the cameras captured it clearly: “You were hurt by losing to Argentina, you’re a crybaby”, he told him, while making a gesture with his hands and pointing directly at Kylian Mbappé, as if to deliver the full combo. Minutes earlier, Cuti himself had been on the verge of being sent off: VAR reviewed a stamp on the Englishman’s knee, but referee Miguel Ángel Ortiz Arias stuck with a yellow card.
It’s not the first time these two have clashed hard. They had already faced each other in the semifinals of the 2026 World Cup, with Argentina beating England. This time, Atlético ended up taking the derby 2-1 with goals from Grimaldo and Jonathan David, and Cuti left with a double smile: the one from victory and the one from the taunt 😏⚽