Vinicius under the magnifying glass

The controversy

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Vinicius has already proven to be great in everything: ability, speed, professionalism, personality... he shows all his virtues with an insistence unbecoming of a striker, people who are inspired but who tend to appear and disappear.

Vinicius is going to slaughter.

He always asks for it, always faces, always worries, almost always marks.

When a player is installed in the imaginary as a great figure, he begins to look at it with a magnifying glass.

Against Mallorca they hit him, he protested, he got angry, he argued... In short, he had a varied role.

Some of the episodes are consistent with his crack condition and others with the irresistible taste for representation that soccer players have these days.

The truth is that the expressiveness of Vinicius unleashed a controversy with several components.

Accused of crack

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The first thing that should be said is that Vinicius is very difficult to stop without the complicity of the referees.

Resorting to tango, "the faith that persists" makes him face again and again, a tireless challenge against markers who try to stop him inside or outside the rules.

We are not in the carnage of the eighties, but being beaten is not nice and Vinicius is the most punished striker in Spanish football.

It is legitimate for him to complain and seek arbitration protection, after all, he is a victim.

The alternative is for him to change his pattern of play so that no one is offended, a ridiculous solution that we already demanded of Neymar in his day, when at Barça they accused him of abusing his ability.

That's another one: we love skilled players, but only if they play on our team.

It's time not to be confused

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Of course, the controversy reached the Madrid coach's press conference, who protected his player saying that he has nothing to correct him.

I think that statement is one more example of Carlo Ancelotti's wisdom, that he knows better than anyone that players are praised in public and corrected in private.

Because I think Vinicius is taking some unnecessary risk with some of his reactions.

The insistence with which the shield is kissed is a love attack very much these days that does no harm to anyone and excites many fans.

But I think it's unnecessary to dance a goal instead of shouting it and, above all, to show off his technical quality when it's not necessary.

There was a move by Vinicius that was highly celebrated by the Santiago Bernabéu: two pipes thrown, not to progress towards the goal, but towards his own goal.

This challenge aims to say two things to the rivals: I am superior and I am not afraid of you.

A provocation that, I'm sorry to insist, Neymar also abused and that earned him more than one injury.

The kicks can give them to you, but it is convenient not to look for them.

Just be true to style

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Dribble backwards is the opposite of what Vinicius is and what makes him great.

In the same match we saw Valverde and Rodrygo leave brilliant marks of their style.

The two pistons that Valverde has as legs, allowed him to cross seventy meters of field leaving rivals behind as if they were telegraph poles, to nail it at an angle with his left leg.

If we want to define Valverde, it is enough to see that goal.

As for Rodrygo, he chose a beautiful zigzag by changing the ball from one leg to make his way with classy smoothness and deposit the ball into the goal.

It's also his style.

And Vinicius' style, what is it?

His style is to always go forward and win games in a hundred different ways.

Without letting them distract you.

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