Christmas Eve, high-risk game because of Vinicius and Yamal | Sports

A week later there is still talk about the Clasico and the debate is no longer just between madridistas and culés, but among the fans of each team, subdivided, in turn, between supporters or detractors of the conduct of Vinicius and Lamine Yamal, respectively. If this continues, Christmas dinner will be a high-risk celebration in many homes in Madrid and Barcelona.

Vinicius, that is, Mourinho reincarnated as a player, once again makes Madrid fans choose between form and substance; this time between the rebellious child and the adult coach. He is one of those responsible – and not the only one – for the fact that the profusion of videos of the meeting that have been circulating on the networks nowadays have more to do with lip reading than with the traditional homemade VAR of various injustices and robberies. What would it be like to talk more about what was said on the pitch than about what was whistled (or not) in a Madrid-Barça game.

Vini-não-te-metas left very angry when “Chorando”!; “Not the captain!”…—. “I’m leaving the team!” he shouted, on his way to the locker room tunnel, not the bench. It wasn’t the first time he did this, nor the first time he did it. It’s anthological fright de Schuster in 1986, when Terry Venables, Barcelona coach, replaced him in the European Cup final in Seville and Schuster, indignant, left the Sánchez Pizjuán, took a taxi and went to watch the end of the game at the hotel. But jurisprudence indicates that when the confrontation between football coach and player reaches certain levels – those of the public – only one can remain. Consecutive duels have a specific number of steps forward before turning. The championship is long, the field not so much.

Between Clemente and Sarabia, Sarabia won. Between Mourinho and Iker Casillas, Mourinho. Between Simeone and Fernando Torres, Simeone. Vinicius, who kicked the entire Madrid delegation off the plane after assuming they wouldn’t give him the Ballon d’Or in Paris in 2024, apologized three days after the Classic for his reaction to the substitution. To the fans, teammates, the club and the president. That is, everyone except Xabi Alonso.

On the other side are the culés divided with Yamal. As we know, Barça’s number 10 took part in the Clásico three days before – which is rare – in a conversation with Ibai LLanos to comment on the League of Kings. “For you, El Porcinos (the team from Llanos, who faced Yamal) is Madrid, right?”, they ask. “Yes, they steal, they complain…“. He streamerwho knows Latin about content going viral, declared after Madrid-Barça and Tangana: “The one who got involved in the Clasico and the one who got involved in the world with what Lamine Yamal said, I think, in part, it’s my fault (…). robberies and what seems absurd turned into police intervention in the Clasico. The fact is that the real game has arrived and Yamal’s words, as Tchouaméni commented, made Madrid more motivated to win. that’s not the case and doubts about the star are also beginning to emerge among culé fans.

The underlying debate is what weighs more, behavior or talent, play or statements. These are dilemmas that coaches and fans tend to resolve differently. Let’s see. In any case, the best video of the week is the analysis of eight-year-old Nagore, a member of Osasuna with very clear ideas: high block and low block. We will have to see her when she grows up, she will make everyone stand up.