Spain captain Sergio Ramos has vowed to prove his doubters wrong after another poor performance this season.
Ramos gave away the penalty that Italy equalised from on Thursday night but that wasn’t the first time the centre back has been culpable at the back this season.
The 30-year-old has also made costly errors for Real Madrid but has no doubt that he will have the final laugh this season.
“In the end they will be silenced, as they have been for many years,” Football Espana quote Ramos as saying after their 1-1 draw with Italy. “At the end of the day, mistakes can happen to everyone.
“Even Buffon, and here in Italy he is a national symbol, he gets applauded. In Spain they whistle you. That is the big difference. In Spain there is envy, and here there is admiration.
“I hope that those who want have a go at me enjoy it now but in the end they will be silenced, as they have been more for many years. They’ve torn strips off me. But I did not get too high with the praise, and the criticism will not destroy me either.
“It was a very strict penalty, one of those that gets whistled just one of 40 times. I don’t know, but recently they have my number. I’ll have to do something to try and change it. But I’m not going to blame the referee.”
Ramos has conceded four penalties in 11 matches this season for club and country.
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