Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior changed his tune after the first game of 2025, having generally been reticent to admit fault in his grievances with referees. However after being sent off against Valencia, he did apologise to his teammates on social media.
The Brazilian had received 8 yellow cards in his 20 appearances this season before their trip to Mestalla, most of which for dissent, and against Valencia lost his cool again. After chants of ‘stupid’ and ‘beach ball’ [referencing the golden ball or Ballon d’Or] throughout the game, Valencia goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski got in his face to demand that he get to his feet after going down in the box.
Vinicius fell into the trap though, pushing his hands into Dimitrievski’s face. Upon a VAR review, Vinicius was dismissed. After Los Blancos came out victorious courtesy of a Jude Bellingham stoppage time winner, Vinicius wrote ‘sorry and thank you team’ on his X/Twitter account.
Perdon y gracias equipo!!!!!! ✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾
— Vini Jr. (@vinijr) January 3, 2025
Manager Carlo Ancelotti called the sending off unfair in the aftermath, and has said that Los Blancos would be appealing, although on what grounds he did not say.
Despite his tactical selfish, Vici was often good on the pitch. His highly bad temperement has contineed to give him and RM a bad name. No wonder he missed the Ballon d’ Or. If I were Perez, we would release him to any interesting club since he refused to adjust his conduct on the field. He serially brought embarrassment to the club, fans, coaches, management and players. Good players are never lacking in the world of football. In spite of his skills on ball, Vini does not deserve to wear the white shirt any longer. Let him play somewhere, not Madrid.
I agree with you, he needs to change his behaviour for the good of the team, fans and himself.
Fortunately for us, you are not Perez.
I haven’t seen this much nonsense in a post in a while.
Truly a laughable post.
Vinicious is seldom giving us a bad name. Is he the only most skillful winger in the world of football? He was criticized for bad behaviours in almost every game. We are tied of his bad conducts on the pitch. Sell him if he cannot adjust. Good replacements are everywhere. We are tied…
Vini is a problem child, everyone is tired of this.
The coach doesn’t have to be on this guy’s side, and try to blame the referee.
The referee was right to dismiss him coz he deserves to be sent off.
The club don’t have to appeal for the red card to be overturned, let him sit out even for a couple of games.
Bad attitude of players doesn’t reflect the image of the club
All the refrees day cheating real madrid bcs of vini jr