I actually see quite a few people saying that it was unintentional/circumstantial, and that Salah hooked his arm first..... Ridiculous. The replay CLEARLY shows Salah separated from Ramos, trying to head the ball under control. Ramos then comes from behind, goes over the shoulder and hooks Salah's arm, then yank his whole body down in the other direction. And after all that, he landed on top of him right on the shoulder too while pinning him down. If that isn't intentional I don't know what is.
Twitter and r/soccer are filled with RM fans and sympathizers, ANY other sport and an action like this is immediately deemed to be dirty with intent to harm. When Kelly Olynyk did almost exactly the same thing to Kevin Love in the 2015 playoffs, when Zaza deliberately undercut Kawhi Leonard to sprain his ankle. The Zaza one even looked far "less intentional" than Ramos yet Zaza's action is pretty much unanimously seen as a dirty, cunt move.
Ramos is a thug, and deserves to have his career ended by injury. Painfully. He hurts other players as often as possible, and then dives like a fish at the slightest of contact. He dove last night to get Mane booked as well, almost as bad as that HORRENDOUS dive in the 2017 final that got Douglas Costa sent off. This guy embodies nothing but the worst in this sport, and the sooner he's gone the better. I hope someone teaches him a fucking lesson at the WC this summer. He just killed the WC dreams of an entire nation by deliberately injuring their best ever player.
The next clasico, Suarez should bite one of his legs to the point he'll never play football again.
