The Brazilian Vinícius Junior, Real Madrid forward, defended the legality of his goal against Almería, which made it 2-2 after the referee’s review on the VAR screen in which he noted that he hit the ball with his shoulder, sharing a video on his social networks with a message in which he assured that this auction “was always done on Copacabana beach.” The striker described the goal as a “great goal.”
“Great goal!!! That’s how he always did it on Copacabana beach,” wrote ‘Vini’ on his official X account.
The Brazilian cited a publication from an account that shared a video in which you can see one of the shots of the ball hit after which the referee Hernández Maeso (Extremeño committee) signaled hand in the first instance, but after being called for review by Hernández Hernández (Las Palmas committee) from the VAR declared a legal goal when it was noted that it hit an area of ??the legal arm to hit the ball.
An action that was the third of the three controversial actions in a match that ended with a 3-2 victory for Real Madrid against Almería after being 0-2 down on the scoreboard at half-time.
The first review was to award a penalty by Brazilian Kaiky, and the second to annul a goal by Sergio Arribas, which would have made it 1-3, due to a previous foul by the Senegalese Dion Lopy on the Englishman Jude Bellingham.
Almería complained about all of them after the match, feeling harmed by the referee’s performance.
“We leave with the feeling that the game has been stolen from us,” Gonzalo Melero was so forceful in the mixed zone after the game. A speech shared by the other two players who spoke, Marc Pubill and Edgar González.
For his part, coach Gaizka Garitano was concise and evasive in his first messages in the press room. He wanted to avoid the penalty for criticizing the referees if he said what he thought. But he ended up leaving a message: “This is not the first time this has happened to me here,” in reference to the performances of the referees during their teams’ visits to the Santiago Bernabéu.
