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semifinals
Away from the muddy atmosphere that has muddied his football in the League, the Real Madrid winger has a good opportunity to claim his claim in Morocco
While a storm raging in Spain that has him as its epicenter, with heated debates about his alleged provocations, racism and rudeness in the stadiums, Vinicius faces the Club World Cup as a refuge in which to escape for a few days from the noise that diminishes his performance and trying to show off again that sparkling football that made him one of the most unbalancing players on the planet, but which in recent times has been muddy due to the muddy environment that surrounds his figure.
The winger, brilliant at the start of the season with seven goals and three assists in Real Madrid’s first eleven outings, has gradually diminished in performance as the decibels increased at each move by the Whites. The anger of the rival fans and the iron markings that he receives, added to a very thin skin that leads him to lower the pole as soon as they hand him the cloak, have misaligned Vinicius’s focus, dragging his team along the way.
The ’20’ has only scored three goals and registered a decisive delivery since he returned from the World Cup in Qatar. Surrounded by the Merengue faithful, his numbers are still decent at the Santiago Bernabéu, a setting where in the last two weeks he has vaccinated both Atlético, in the Cup, and Valencia, in the League. But Vinicius’s star goes out far from Chamartín. He accumulates eight days of the League without seeing the door at home and each trip of his inside the bull’s skin is an ordeal.
For all this, Ancelotti took advantage of the preview of the duel this Wednesday (8:00 p.m.) against Al-Ahly to raise the tone. «Here the problem is not Vinicius, it is what happens around Vinicius. It is a problem of Spanish football and we have to solve it. It seems that Vinicius is the culprit. Vinicius is the victim of something that I don’t understand,” proclaimed the Real Madrid coach, tense at the possibility that the case could become a tornado that would take his squad away from the goals set at the beginning of the season. «He is an incredible person, with many 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.
Shock therapy
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 assault on a trophy that they have won seven times: the first three under the extinct Intercontinental Cup that only measured the European and American champions and the remaining four with the current format that also involves the monarchs of other confederations.
Al-Ahly, current runner-up in an African Champions League that they have won ten times, which makes the Egyptian entity the absolute queen of the black continent, is the first obstacle on Real Madrid’s route in a tournament traditionally considered minor, although He can give the whites a boost. «A Club World Cup is a very important event. It means having done things well before. We are very excited in a country where we have many fans and we have the opportunity to make them happy and finish well what was a fantastic season and give new impetus for this season in which we have many challenges,” said Ancelotti, who has six casualties. including three Praetorians such as Courtois, Militao and Benzema.
The man from Reggiolo, who tied a Club World Cup with Milan (2007) and another with Real Madrid (2014), faces the tournament as a possible therapy for a team that sees the League going uphill after the defeat on Sunday against Mallorca and that he cannot afford a new failure, less than a month after losing the Spanish Super Cup. Hence he put his soldiery on guard. “Al-Ahly is a team that has a great history. They have won many titles, they have experience in these competitions, a good organization, with skillful and fast players. It will be an even, competitive match, “he warned.
Beating Real Madrid would put the Egyptian team into orbit, which looks in the mirror of the epic that Morocco’s team completed in the World Cup in Qatar to dream big. “We cannot shrink or stay 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 came to play in the 1996 Euro Cup with the Swiss team. «We will give everything to be able to stop Vinicius. The key is that the winger also helps in his defense », added the coach of a block that also has the carioca between his eyebrows.
probable lineups
Al-Ahly:
El Shenawy, M. Hany, M. Metwalli, Abdel Monem, A. Maaloul, A. Dieng, Percy Tau, Hamdi Fathi, Al Sulaya, T. Mohamed y Kahraba.Real Madrid:
Lunin, Carvajal, Rüdiger, Nacho, Alaba, Tchouaméni, Camavinga, Ceballos, Valverde, Rodrygo and Vinicius.Referee:
Andrés Matías Matonte Cabrera (Uruguay).Hour:
20:00 h.Estadio:
Principe Moulay Abdellah.TV:
Telecinco.