Sergio Ramos has vowed to silence his critics after he gave away a fourth penalty in his eleven games this season against Italy.
Ramos has been somewhat error-prone this season and many believe he is lucky to have only conceded four penalties – he escaped a strong handball appeal against Espanyol – but he appeared self-confident when questioned about the criticism.
"In the end they will be silenced, as they have been for many years," the Real Madrid captain explained in the mixed zone after the game.
"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 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.
"I saw it as I was going through doping, which always seems to pick me," Ramos said. "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.”
