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Ramos: ''I never wanted to hurt a colleague on the pitch,'' as he claims his conscience is clear after his tackle with Salah in the Ucl final.

Sergio Ramos insisted his ‘conscience is clear’ despite being warned about a bad reception from England fans at Wembley, as the Real Madrid captain prepares to make his first appearance in England since that game.

Ramos, 32, who will wear the armband for Spain against England at Wembley on Saturday night, said that he had never intended to hurt Salah who dislocated a shoulder in the incident after 25 minutes and later left the pitch in Kiev in tears. Jurgen Klopp later accused Ramos of flooring Salah “like a wrestler”.

Asked about the potential reaction to him at Wembley, Ramos said: “I’m not really concerned about that. 

''I never wanted to hurt an opponent on the pitch, of course, so my conscience is really clear about what I did that night. I’m not going to be affected by that at all. 


''I know the English fans will treat players as they deserve and I’m not worried in the slightest.”

It will be Ramos’s 157th cap for his national team, putting him within 10 of former team-mate Iker Casillas’ all-time record.

Ramos said that it was the job of the current squad to  restore Spain to the heights that saw them triumph in three consecutive international tournaments – the  European championships of 2008 and 2012 and the World Cup of 2010.

“In the Fifa ranking we have gone down a few positions,” he said. “Our main aim is to go back up and regain this winning philosophy.

“We need to push together and do our best to regain this enthusiasm for our football which made people fall in love with the way it is played. 

''We have changed the way that we do play a bit but this is a different generation of players.”