Arturo vidal 'Helped' the Real Madrid to end its historic curse on the mythical San siro, where he had never won an official match or against the Inter nor against him Milan. The temperamental former Barça player expelled himself in the 33rd minute of the first half and left his team at a disadvantage for the remaining hour of a momentous match in which the 'Nerazzurri' gave a terrible image (0-2).
The team of Zinedine Zidane, which was finally put into ‘Champions mode’, also broke this Wednesday with another ‘curse’: winning a game without its iconic captain, Sergio Ramos, absent due to injury, along with Karim Benzema, and with all the madridismo pending and in suspense for a renewal that continues without “white smoke.”
The beginning of the end for Inter, whose feared attacking duo (Lautaro and Lukaku) became a pair of little lambs, arrived in an action in which Vidal claimed to have been subject to a penalty of Varane. There was no review by the VAR, while the English collegiate Anthony Taylor nor did he see anything punishable.
The Chilean and his teammates surrounded the referee in a bully plan, who did not hesitate to show Vidal the yellow for his angry complaints, but the Chilean, unhinged by nerves and perhaps without realizing that he had already been reprimanded, went on to protest to Taylor on his very face, which cost him the second card and the subsequent expulsion.
Kick of rage to a Champions League poster
Vidal, with a face of disgust and made a rage, went to the locker room with a monumental anger that led him to give him a kick of rage to a Champions League poster, before sitting on some stairs to remove his boots.
An absurd and unjustifiable self-expulsion de Vidal that seriously damaged his team and that should lead to a heavy fine from his club since the fact of being able to stay outside Europe At the first turn, it would be a hard blow to the coffers, and more in these times of terrible economic crisis due to Covid.
It is not the first time that Arturo Vidal suffers an expulsion against Real Madrid in the Champions League. As a player of the Bayern Munich He also saw two yellow cards, in the 'hot' second leg of a quarter-final against the Whites at the Bernabéu (April 18, 2017), although on that occasion his expulsion was marked by the controversial arbitration of Hungarian Viktor Kasai, that harmed the Germans with his decisions. Without Vidal in the field after seeing the red in minute 84, the Bayern ended up giving up in extra time (4-2).