At Real Madrid it is feared that Vinicius is playing with a target in her back. The two actions that ended with the Brazilian on the lawn of La Cerámica without the ball being involved, first a kick from Albiol and then a slap from Parejo, caused outrage among the entity’s spheres of power. The messages of Whatsapp between those high spheres and towards the outside they showed the discomfort for the performance of Sánchez Martínez and the defenselessness of the new white star, the second footballer who receives fouls from the First Division only behind Javi Galán but with an average per minute of offenses suffered that exceeds the Celta de Vigo defender. ‘Vini’ is the most ‘hunted’ of the competition.
In particular, within Madrid, Albiol’s controversial action with Vinicius in the 14th minute has chosen. “Clear penalty,” according to Iturralde González, the arbitration specialist for AS and Cadena SER. “It’s a penalty, because Albiol gives himself away when he looks to the right and sees that Vinicius is coming. He’s going to look for contact”. A winger that Albiol himself denied but that did not convince Madrid. Without going any further, Emilio Butragueño himself, institutional representative of the club at La Cerámica, pointed out to the video arbitration: “It is not understood that the VAR did not enter into that action…”.
Parejo’s slap at Vinicius in a set piece action that Sánchez Martínez did not appreciate either.
In Thorn Shell arbitration proceedings are being watched with a magnifying glass in relation to the white team and above all, if there is permissiveness when it comes to stopping certain players based on kicks or infractions. It happened already at the beginning of January, when Hazard received a barrage of fouls to the point of becoming the third LaLiga player who suffered the most per minute played.
Now it is playing, in a more usual way, Vinicius. Especially against Villarreal. Leaving aside those two controversial actions that Madrid claimed, Emery’s team fouled Vinicius five times in the 0-0 win last Saturday. But he used the same system to stop him in the match at the Bernabéu, in which the Brazilian was fouled four times. Only Barça, with six in the Clásico at the Camp Nou, surpasses this pursuit of the Brazilian. in this league, Friends He has suffered 54 fouls, only surpassed by Javi Galán’s 55although he has played 354 minutes less than the Celtiña side.
As a comparison between the way to stop Vinicius here and how they are used abroad, going to the Champions League, it is seen that between the six days of the group stage and before going to the battle of Paris to 20 White has only been fouled six times, far behind others of his profile such as Jude Bellingham (17), Neymar (15), Mahrez (12) and Brahim (12).
Although Ancelotti wanted to be diplomatic in the press room in Vila-Real (“Vinicius has to understand that this can happen, he must not spend energy on it”), a position imitated by Casemiro after the match when he put hot cloths on the figure of Sanchez Martinez, but the club is outraged.