Questions surrounding the altercation between midfielders Federico Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni dominated Arbeloa’s information convention on Saturday.
The incident left Valverde dominated out of El Clasico due to concussion signs, whereas each gamers had been fined 500,000 euros (£432,000) following a membership investigation.
Tchouameni returned to coaching on Friday and stays obtainable for the match, though Arbeloa declined to verify whether or not the France worldwide would begin.
“The gamers have acknowledged their mistake, expressed their remorse and requested for forgiveness. That is sufficient for me,” Arbeloa advised reporters.
“These two gamers deserve for us to show the web page and permit them to maintain combating for this membership. I am very pleased with them. I will not enable this for use to query their professionalism.”
Former Liverpool, Actual Madrid and Spain defender Arbeloa additionally recommended dressing-room disputes weren’t uncommon in elite soccer environments.
“I’ve had a team-mate who picked up a golf membership and swung it at one other participant,” the 43-year-old stated.
“What occurs within the Actual Madrid dressing room ought to keep within the Actual Madrid dressing room, and that is what hurts me probably the most.”
Arbeloa was referring to an incident throughout his time at Liverpool in 2007, when a disagreement between Craig Bellamy and John Arne Riise throughout a coaching camp in Portugal reportedly escalated into Bellamy confronting his team-mate with a golf membership.
“These are conditions which have all the time occurred, though I am actually not justifying it,” Arbeloa added.
“It was an incident and we had been unlucky that Fede ended up with a gash. It was extra unhealthy luck than anything.”
The Madrid coach additionally accepted accountability for the scenario.
“If you wish to blame somebody, right here I’m,” he stated.
Regardless of the controversy, Arbeloa insisted the main focus remained on Sunday’s assembly with Barcelona.
“We face the Clasico with the ambition to do issues nicely and go to win.”
Arbeloa doesn’t seem to have a long-term future in his present put up, with reviews in Spain already linking a number of high-profile names, together with Jose Mourinho, to the position for subsequent season.
Stress has additionally intensified on membership president Florentino Perez, with questions being raised over a interval that has seen Actual Madrid undergo three managers in two campaigns with out lifting a trophy.
The membership’s subsequent appointment is now seen as one of the important choices of Perez’s presidency, as Madrid try to revive stability and competitiveness after a turbulent season on and off the pitch.
Regardless of the scrutiny, Arbeloa strongly defended the 79-year-old president.
“There isn’t any-one extra ready than Florentino Perez to show this case round,” he stated.
“I bear in mind how the membership was earlier than his arrival. He’s the president with probably the most titles in Actual Madrid historical past and he introduced the membership again to the place it belongs. All of us need to struggle collectively.”
