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Summer arrivals in the respective squads at La Liga giants Barcelona and Real Madrid required separating in the aftermath of the meeting between the sides on Sunday.
This came as tensions threatened to boil over at the Spotify Camp Nou.
The season’s first edition of El Clásico was played to completion a short time ago, with visitors Real Madrid having ultimately emerged on the right side of the result.
Kylian Mbappé proved himself the star of the show, netting both goals for José Mourinho’s troops en route to a 2-1 triumph.
In the game’s final moments, as the frustrations of Barcelona’s players began to show, tensions mounted between the two squads following a late challenge from Alejandro Balde on match-winner Mbappé.
And as alluded to above, things had still not settled following the full-time whistle, as the two sets of players headed back towards their respective dressing rooms.
As caught by the Movistar cameras in operation at the Camp Nou, Gabriel Jesus and Denzel Dumfries needed to be separated by their teammates, after a heated exchange on the pitch:
Conor Laird – GSFN
