Vinicius is now in Dubai, where he will be able to digest the whistles with which the Santiago Bernabéu said goodbye to him on Saturday when he was substituted against the … Sevilla in the throes of another gray game for Real Madrid. A mix of advertising commitments and enjoyment, taking advantage of a Christmas break that Xabi Alonso’s players will have to use to recharge their batteries and reset their minds after a turbulent end to the year, the ‘7’ trip to the Emirates will serve to cool down spirits after a new tantrum from the Brazilian that pours more salt into the wound of a team that cannot find its footballing north.
Two months have passed since Vinicius’ tantrum when he was substituted in the classic and another tantrum once again puts a footballer in the eye of the hurricane who has accumulated fourteen consecutive games without scoring and whose registration has been taken by the Bernabéu. The reaction of the Fluminense to the whistles he heard when Xabi Alonso ordered him to leave the field in the duel against Sevilla to make room for Gonzalo was the opposite of what was expected from a player who on Saturday wore the Real Madrid captain’s armband. Already in the locker room, he grabbed his mobile phone and changed the photo with the Chamartín team shirt that headed his Instagram profile for another with the Brazil jersey. A message intended to make visible his discontent with the Merengue fans and to raise the pulse again in a club that continues to swallow his whims.
Just as it happened after the much-vaunted insult he made to Xabi Alonso during the classic, the seed of the crisis that Real Madrid is going through, no one has come out to give Vinicius a slap on the wrist for a behavior that further muddies the troubled waters on which Xabi Alonso is trying to surf and the messages that come from the entity chaired by Florentino Pérez are more along the lines of pampering a footballer who heads the team. displeasure of the fans with the very poor game that is characterizing Real Madrid. Although the bullets are whistling over Xabi Alonso’s head and the Gipuzkoan will be the one sacrificed if the situation is not remedied in the Spanish Super Cup, the merengue parish pointed out on Saturday mainly the players, with the ‘7’ at the head.
Despite two good deliveries that Mbappé could not convert into a goal, Vinicius was not brilliant against Sevilla, a rival against whom his compatriot Rodrygo did vindicate himself, providing an assist from a set-piece that Bellingham took advantage of to put Real Madrid ahead in the first half and causing a penalty from Juanlu in the second half that helped Mbappé to double the lead from the eleven meters.
The Bernabéu lowers the finger
His departure from the pitch amidst whistles that were mixed with applause from another sector of the fans and the subsequent childishness on social media to show his anger with the whistle were the corollary of a week in which the former Flamengo player has been even more unfortunate outside of the playing field than inside. First there were his laughter on the bench while Real Madrid suffered to eliminate Talavera in the round of 32 of the Copa del Rey and then the tantrum on social networks to which several of his teammates reacted, trying to smooth things over.
Vinicius’ tantrums are causing him to lose followers among the fans, who are looking for culprits for the crisis beyond Xabi Alonso and blamed the players in the lawsuit against Sevilla, asking them for more manliness to straighten the course. Neither with an advantage on the scoreboard nor against a team with numerical inferiority was Real Madrid able to control a match in which Sevilla enjoyed numerous chances and in which Courtois once again emerged as the savior of his squad. «The important thing was to win at home. But we have to improve football, we won after a set piece and a penalty. We have to improve,” said the Belgian goalkeeper at the end of another clash in which the Bernabéu lowered its finger on its team and especially with Vinicius, who has not been the same since he saw how Rodrigo Hernández snatched a Ballon d’Or of which he thought he was the owner.
