Vinicius apologises for hair-pull red card but could miss El Clasico

Real Madrid guardant has a extremity disallowed, is sent disconnected for the hair-pull offence and could miss the adjacent 3 games.

Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr has apologised ⁠⁠to ⁠⁠his teammates and the club’s fans aft being sent disconnected successful the 1-0 ⁠⁠win implicit Villarreal successful La Liga astatine the Santiago Bernabeu but present faces a ⁠⁠nervous hold for a ruling by the disciplinary committee, which could spot him miss Real’s fixture with rivals Barcelona successful 2 weeks.

The Brazilian thought helium had scored Real’s 2nd extremity successful the lucifer connected Saturday, but his effort was disallowed aft a video adjunct referee (VAR) reappraisal recovered helium should beryllium dismissed for pulling Nathan Saliba’s hairsbreadth successful the build-up.

After the match, Vinicius, ⁠⁠who came connected successful the ⁠⁠52nd infinitesimal and was red-carded 20 minutes later, posted connected societal media, saying, “sorry to the squad and the ⁠⁠fans”.

Vinicius was celebrating aft scoring erstwhile referee Isidro Diaz de Mera was called by the VAR to reappraisal the moments earlier his goal. The referee waved disconnected the extremity and pulled retired a reddish paper for Vinicius.

When helium thought Vinicius had doubled the lead, Real manager Jose Mourinho ran to articulation the celebrations with his players.

But moments later, Vinicius was near livid by the referee’s decision. He screamed astatine Diaz de Mera portion his teammates tried to calm him down arsenic helium near the field.

Vinicius was restrained by his teammates arsenic helium argued with the referee [Oscar Del Pozo/AFP]

“I don’t deliberation helium meant to wounded anyone, but it is simply a reddish card,” Villarreal defender Juan Foyth said astir the hairsbreadth yank of Saliba.

Diaz de Mera wrote successful his lucifer study that aft being shown the reddish card, Vinicius “protested my decision, raising his voice, toward wherever I was lasting successful an assertive manner, and being held backmost by teammates”.

Royal Spanish Football Federation regulations authorities that pulling an opponent’s hairsbreadth ⁠⁠is regarded arsenic convulsive conduct.

The ⁠⁠sanction for convulsive behaviour without causing wounded to an opponent, according to Article 130 of the league’s rules, is simply a prohibition of 1 to 3 ‌‌matches.

Real’s adjacent 3 La Liga games are against Sevilla, Barca and Racing Santander, but missing El ‌‌Clasico ‌‌would beryllium a bitter stroke for the 26-year-old Brazil international.

Mourinho did not look astatine the mandatory post-game quality conference.