Real Madrid legend Sergio Ramos has vowed not to celebrate if he scores against his former club for Sevilla when the pair meet in La Liga on Sunday.
Having already faced Madrid at Sevilla's Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan home earlier this season - a 1-1 draw, this game marks the first time that Ramos has been to the Santiago Bernabeu as a visiting player since his 2021 departure from the club after 16 long years and 22 trophies.
"I am going to feel at home because I have spent many years there, with the most important moments of my career and I have wonderful memories of the fans, of my teammates. It will be a unique and emotional moment," Ramos told DAZN.
"I have a lot of respect for the fans and all of Real Madrid and if I score, I won't celebrate, but I do have the lucky to do it and that goal is enough for us to win, I will be delighted because those three points will be very good for us.
"Real Madrid is the favourite to win everything every year. They are going through a good moment, they are leaders and they have players of extraordinary quality. We know very well the terrain we are going to tread and we will try to play a good game there."
The last time that 37-year-old Ramos entered the Bernabeu pitch from the away dressing room, it was December 2004 and he was still just a teenager in his first-team breakout season. Sevilla won 1-0 that day, Julio Baptista - who would also go on to join Madrid in due course - scoring the only goal.
Ramos traded the white shirt of Sevilla for the white shirt of Madrid in the summer of 2005 in a €27m transfer. After becoming one of the greatest players of his generation, he would go on to re-join his boyhood club last summer following two seasons in French football with Paris Saint-Germain.