On Tuesday, Real Madrid were made aware that Vinicius Junior had received a two-match La Liga suspension, following his red card against Valencia last weekend. It means that the 24-year-old will be unavailable for fixtures against Las Palmas (home) and Real Valladolid (away) later this month.
In the circumstances, this was the best possible outcome for Real Madrid, who will now have Vinicius available for the Spanish Super Cup. However, there has been indignation at the sanction handed out by the Spanish Football Federation’s Disciplinary Committee, especially from Leganes.
As per Diario AS, the Madrid-based club are furious at Vinicius only been banned for two matches, as their player Oscar Rodriguez was given a four-game suspension for a similar incident during last month’s 5-2 home defeat against Villarreal – club officials are said to be “in disbelief” at the apparent “double standards”.
While this was the best case scenario for Real Madrid, they are hoping for no sanction at all for Vinicius as an appeal is expected to be filed in the next 24-48 hours. They believe that a punishment would be unjust in the circumstances, given that the Brazilian allegedly suffered racist abuse at the time of the incident with Valencia goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski.
Jeezus. Madrid clearly using racism as an excuse for bad behaviour.
Seems Vini brought a lot of pain to your rear. Which is hugely amusing, of course.
As Vini was slowly getting up, Dimitrievski slapped him on the shoulder and pulled his hair locks. This triggered Vini to retaliate by pushing Dimitrievski … at his face level. Definately poor judgement by Vini and the rules say red is justified. However, the incident would not have happened if Dimitrievski had not provoked Vini. There is a fair spirit to the way Football is played and Dimitrievski did not act in that manner… in fact he conspired to use Vini’s hot headed reactions to get him sent off. I have no problem with that though… Dani Carvajal is the master at that so give some, receive some.
What was extremely poor was his reaction to the red – it set a bad image that he didn’t need.
Regarding Oscar Rodriguez and Leganes… That incident is available on youtube… slow it down to 0.25x speeds and watch Oscar Rodriguez throttle Yeremy’s neck with 2 hands and use that grip to throw Yeremy to the deck. Now that is a violent action that should require a long suspension. If Leganes is really comparing that to Vini’s push then it shows what type of political lobbying Vini is up against. Its not about football anymore and the only reason to do this is to get back at Vini for being outspoken against the racism he encounters… often going overboard with his generalisations.
Wow!
I couldn’t have said it better
What a load of drivel.
Valancia goalkeper his diserb more suspention then VINI becose first to slap vini on his shulder.