Soccer has a short memory but not so long ago Vinicius’ lack of aim was fuel for jokes and memes flooded the groups of WhatsApp of half the football world. Friends he was the object of jokes even in more complicated terrain, such as that of his own colleagues. This Sunday you will see the faces with Luis Suarez for the first time since the Uruguayan responded with a loud laugh (to the point of tears escaping) last May to a joke about the madridista in a radio interview (“Couldn’t you sleep with him for three days, see if something hits him?”asked Tomás Guasch in Cope). Those jokes have given way to a very different reality: since then, Vinicius has been scoring more than him Gunman charrúa …
The numbers and the influence of the Brazilian attacker himself are overwhelming even the experienced rojiblanco striker. Vinicius has scored more goals than Luis Suárez (he wins 12 to 8) and has intervened more, giving seven assists, for just two from the Uruguayan. Is much more plugged in: marks every 142 minutes with Madrid, while Luis Suárez needs 153 to do the same with Atlético. The last month and a half of the madridista is irrefutable (five goals, four of them decisive for the result, for only one of the sky-blue international).
The numbers of Vinicius and Luis Suárez this season.
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Have passed almost 2,000 days since the first Derby of Friends (1,197 to be exact) although it was with the prefix ‘mini’ in front. A duel against the rojiblanco subsidiary in which he devastated the colchoneros youth players in Cerro del Espino to the point that the rojiblanco captain, Tachi, bit his head in despair. The fear that Atlético B felt that day may be similar to the one that looms over Atlético this Sunday at the Bernabéu in a Derby in which Vinicius appears as more fire than the nine mattress, also injured in Porto. Y the Brazilian has not yet made his debut in a Derby...
Little joke with Vinicius.