Espanyol striker Joselu has sent a message to Real Madrid attacker Vinicius Jr, ahead of Saturday’s La Liga clash.

Vinicius has often received insults from supporters and even opposition, as well as tough tackles.

Joselu has now told Vinicius that football is a war on the pitch, and he should be ready for everything, as nobody wants to be on the losing side.

Joselu said ahead of the game: “Everyone at home has to reconsider. On the field, nothing is solved by insulting anyone.

“Within the field, due to my game profile I take a lot of blows, I go into contact a lot. All kinds of attitudes can be admitted up to being disrespectful.

“Everything is being exaggerated a lot, some things are being hyped. Inside the field you see us from the outside, they are things that happen hotly. We have to think that what happens at 150,000 revolutions stays there.

“You defend yours to the death, the other his to the death and we are like in a war. I am not going to allow the rival to pass me over, in the end you do everything possible. There are players who have hotter blood and others, they wear it better. You have to look a little for what can give you an advantage, always without disrespect.

“In this world there has to be everything, unfortunately, as my mother says.”