It had been a game, a joke, but it ended up being serious. Pablo Maffeoafter his ‘joke’ during an interview in which he had dreamed of being able to box with Vinicius Junior In one of the evenings organized by famous streamers in the world, he met up with the Brazilian again and everything ended in scandal in Saudi Arabia. It was the image that was repeated the most in the triumph of the Real Madrid 3-0 against him Mallorcawhich helped him to appear in the final of the Spanish Super Cup next Sunday against Barcelonain a new edition of the Spanish classic.
Maffeo came out on ‘Vini’s’ mark from the first minute and, through provocations, was able to stop him in the game in Jeddah. The Brazilian did not gravitate as on other occasions and, in fact, perhaps that is why it was difficult for him to open the scoring until after 60 minutes, thanks to the Englishman Jude Bellingham. In injury time the goals arrived that decorated the result, the work of Valjent against y Rodrygo.
There wasn’t even time to celebrate, because as soon as the final whistle blew everything went out of control. It was precisely Bellingham, with Lucas Vázquez and Asencio – “you’re bad,” he shouted at him – who stuck out their chests and looked for the Argentine defender after the match. He had to leave himself Carlo Ancelotti to the grass to ask for calm and take Maffeo to the locker room, to whom he asked for respect.
Maffeo had a past history with Vinicius – it started three seasons ago when he fired him because they were going to relegation -, which is why the Argentine defender’s proposal to have a round of boxing in which the Brazilian would last “10 seconds” before the knockout later came out. . The Brazilian hit the former Stuttgart player with his shoulder, who automatically threw himself to the ground simulating a headbutt from his rival, trying to seek expulsion.
In the midst of the Brazilian attacker’s protests, social networks captured an image in which the player who was called up by Lionel Scaloni to the Argentine National Team makes the gesture of silence by putting his index finger to his mouth, due to Vinicius’ protests.
The referee’s report left four yellow cards due to the fight at the end of the game. Asencio and Rüdiger for Real Madrid, Raíllo and Dani Rodríguez for Mallorca.
The final against Barcelona, who beat Athletic Bilbao in the other semi, will be on Sunday starting at 4:00 p.m. (Argentine time), with DSports televising.