Six years ago, on an Easter night in 2014, Gareth Bale ran through the Mestalla gang as if it were the last thing he was going to do in his life. He put the turbo, ducked his head and ended up leaving Marc Bartra in the gutter, today at Betis, first, and then, stripping Pinto, the Barcelona goalkeeper in the Cup. A move that earned Real Madrid a title. Six years later, Iker Casillas, who saw everything from the opposite goal, and Bartra, victim of that acceleration, remembered him on Instagram.

"I have seen the reminders but I am not going to raise any issue because it is not very pleasant and very tiring. The joke is already good and it went around many times. You have some characteristics and Gareth others, it is a final and a play in the final minutes "Casillas started.

But Bartra did not hide and spoke of an action that he had not dealt with for a long time. "For me it was hard as hell, I was a child who rose from the bottom and played for the first time against Real Madrid. On top of that I scored a goal for Iker Casillas and I went from glory to shit in minutes. It was very hard", confessed.

"I like to talk about it because since then I have not done it and I remember that after the game you came and encouraged me. I realized that Casillas were good people. With everything he had won he came to hug a pipiolo and gave me strength" he added.

The swift action hitting Bale's band in Mestalla, five minutes from the end, which Bartra could not stop or even trying to do without, was recalled by Casillas. "You learn from mistakes but that play I don't see an error, it is more to Gareth's merit. Any other player would have given up that ball or would have thrown himself to the ground and asked for a foul because you wouldn't let him run. He bet on continuing. merit of his ability, "he said.

Bartra revealed another anecdote that that Copa del Rey final was directed by referee Mateu Lahoz . "They just scored the goal for me, I was on the smashed grass and I heard 'come on Bartra get up you're a machine, get up' and when I turned around I saw that Mateu was the one telling me".

"They had told me that Del Bosque was watching the game in the stands and had set me the goal of going to the national team. I ended up thinking that everything was going to shit but how hard it was then, in the end, has a prize. A few months later I went to the selection, "he concluded.

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