Away from the muddy atmosphere that has clouded his football in the league, the Real Madrid winger has a good chance of claiming his claim in Morocco.
While a storm rages in Spain that has him as its epicenter, with heated debates about his alleged provocations, racism and rudeness in the stadiums, Vinicius sees the Club World Cup as a haven to escape for a few days from the noise that is easing his performance and trying again to show off that sparkling football that made him one of the most unbalanced players in the world, but has been muddy lately due to the muddy environment around his figure.
The winger, brilliant at the start of the season with seven goals and three assists in Real Madrid’s first 11 appearances, has gradually declined as the decibels increased with every move by the Whites. The anger of the rival fans and the Iron Marks he receives, added to a very thin skin that causes him to lower the post as soon as they hand him the robe, have misaligned Vinicius’ focus and dragged his team along.
The ’20’ has scored just three goals and put on a decisive performance since returning from the World Cup in Qatar. Surrounded by the Merengue parishioner, his numbers are still decent at the Santiago Bernabéu, a stage where he has vaccinated both Atlético, in the cup, and Valencia, in the league, in the past two weeks. But the star of Vinicius goes far from Chamartín. He collects eight days of the League without seeing a door at home and every journey of his in the skin of the bull is an ordeal.
For all this, Ancelotti used the preview of next Wednesday’s game (8 p.m.) against Al-Ahly to set the tone. “Here the problem is not Vinicius, it’s what is happening around Vinicius. It is a problem of Spanish football and we have to solve it. Looks like Vinicius is the culprit. Vinicius is the victim of something I don’t understand,” declared the Real Madrid coach, tense by the possibility that the case could turn into a tornado that would take his side away from the goals set at the start of the season. “He’s an incredible person, with a lot of values. From a football point of view, he is different and enjoys football in his own way, in a happy way,” added his teammate Valverde.
What the Uruguayan said enjoy is what Vinicius hopes to do this Wednesday at the Príncipe Moulay Abdellah stadium in Rabat. There, Real Madrid will begin the attack on a trophy they have won seven times: the first three under the extinct Intercontinental Cup that measures only the European and American champions and the remaining four with the current format that also involves the monarchs of other confederations . .
Al-Ahly, the current runner-up in an African Champions League that they have won ten times, making the Egyptian entity the absolute queen of the black continent, is the first obstacle on Real Madrid’s route in a tournament that traditionally is considered small, although he can boost the whites. “A World Cup for clubs is a very important event. It means you’ve done things right before. We are very excited in a country where we have a lot of fans and we have the opportunity to make them happy and finish well what has been a fantastic season and give new impetus to this season where we have many challenges,” said Ancelotti , who killed six, including three Praetorians such as Courtois, Militao and Benzema.
The man from Reggiolo, who leveled a World Cup for club teams with Milan (2007) and one with Real Madrid (2014), sees the tournament as a possible therapy for a team that sees the competition going uphill after Sunday’s defeat against Mallorca and that he cannot afford another failure less than a month after losing the Spanish Super Cup. So he put his soldiers on guard. “Al-Ahly is a team with a great history. They have won many titles, they have experience in these competitions, a good organization, with skilled and fast players. It will be an even, competitive game,” he warned.
Beating Real Madrid would send the Egyptian team into orbit, which seems to mirror the epic the Morocco team completed at the World Cup in Qatar to dream big. “We can’t back down or be left behind while waiting, we have to go for the game,” launched his coach Marcel Koller, a former midfielder who made a career at Grasshopper and joined the Swiss team in the Euro Cup in 1996. “We will give everything to stop Vinicius. The key is that the winger also helps in his defense,” added the coach of a block who also has the carioca between his eyebrows.
Source: La Verdad
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