Mestalla is a stadium in which Vinicius Jr. He becomes unhinged and ends up sent off for a straight red card. The only two he has seen since playing in Spain were shown to him Valencia in the field of Avenida de Sweden. It happened two seasons ago after, with the score against, he lost control and slapped Hugo Duro. He left the field denouncing racist insults, which are still being investigated in court, and with gestures of ‘second’ to the stands. That red card was withdrawn by the competition committee and did not entail any punishment. The one he saw last night will have it, but how the referee justified his decision in the minutes can ‘save’ him from a exemplary sanction.
Vinicius was sent off in the 79th minute after a assault on Dimitrievsky. The Valencian goalkeeper touched him on the back to make him get up after a failed attack play, canceled due to previous offside, and the Brazilian reacted with an attack. Soto Grado He settled the controversy with two yellow cards, but from the VAR Muñiz Ruiz warned him that what happened could be “violent conduct”.
The audios published by the RFEF record that the referee confirms that he is going to show a red card, “for hitting the goalkeeper’s face with his arms” and asks if the ball is stationary, to which his teammate responds: “Indeed.” In a careful review, it is seen that the moment in which the referee whistles offside in the previous action and the moment of the attack are practically the same.
However, in writing the minutes, Soto Grado makes a clarification that may benefit the Real Madrid player. “In the 79th minute, the player Vinicius was sent off for the following reason: hitting an opponent on the head deliberately, without the ball being in disputeusing not insignificant force. Once expelled, said player had to be restrained by members of his club and taken to the locker room while his protests continued.”
The key to the interpretation of the committees is that if the ball is stopped, the sanction can range from four to 12 games, as happened to the Leganés player. Oscar Rodriguez for grabbing by the neck Jeremy Pino, because article 103 would apply: “Assaulting another, without causing injury, weighing as a determining factor of the malicious element, necessary in this infraction, the circumstance that the action takes place while the game is stopped or at such a distance from where it is “If it develops that it is impossible to intervene in an incident, it will be sanctioned with a suspension of four to twelve games.”
But if the consideration is that the aggression occurs “without the ball being in dispute”, the punishment can remain two games.
Whatever the interpretation, Real Madrid is going to appeal to avoid a sanction that, if it exceeds two days, could affect them in the Cup, next Sunday against Deportiva Minera in Cartagena, or in the Spanish Super Cup, which starts next Thursday against Mallorca in Jeddha.
Ancelotti: “There were two yellow cards”
Ancelotti waits for the player because he didn’t even see an expulsion. “We’re going to appeal. What we think is that it wasn’t a red, that it was two yellows. It was a touch from Dimitrievski before and a push from Vini later, with two yellows the matter was over. I don’t want to say that he fell into the trap “He has tried to do things as always, play his game. Sometimes he does well and sometimes a little less. And nothing more, he is still a decisive player for us,” justified the Italian coach, who did not hide the bad first half of the game. Real Madrid. “It is difficult to explain how badly we did in the first half and how well we did in the second with one less. We can’t show these two faces“he lamented, as well as for the missed penalties. “I think I have to take the responsibility of choosing who is going to shoot,” he warned.
It helped Vinicius that his teammates were able to turn the game around and, for that reason, he asked them for “forgiveness” and thanked them on social networks. However, that post was not without controversy.
The Brazilian adds a two-finger emoticon, a gesture he directed at the Mestalla stands during several moments of the match in which they whistled or chanted the mockery ‘Beach ball, Vinicius, beach ball‘.
In a hidden way, but captured in images of the match, the forward made the gesture that he already reproduced two years ago at Mestalla. This time, the Valencia players did not notice, but Hugo Duro He sent him a message: “Let him dedicate himself to playing, he does it quite well, and not get involved in wars that are not his.”