"I won't deny that I was disappointed that Cristiano ran over to the referee that night but other players ran over too and at the end of the day we weren't teammates that night - we were rivals.
"A lot of players ran over and even if you look at the game in the first half I was trying to get him booked for diving - but people probably haven't seen that.
"We spoke on the night and he said he hadn't run over to deliberately to get me sent off.
"I told him not to worry about it and things between us have been fine since then. He's a good friend of mine."