The clock was approaching 9 p.m. at the Santiago Bernabéu, with still a poor attendance, and the Real Madrid players went out to warm up on the pitch. At that moment, it seemed like the rival team was doing so. The few fans showed from the start that they wanted to express their dissatisfaction with whistles for a blank season and all the troubles that have occurred this season in the locker room: the Tchouaméni-Valverde fight, Mbappé’s evasions and messages, or the situation experienced with Xabi Alonso’s dismissal due to the attitude of the hard core, led by Vinícius and the Uruguayan player himself, captain and still in the infirmary.
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The stadium’s appearance was the poorest of the season, as the member preferred to go on a long weekend (this Friday is San Isidro) rather than be with their team on a day when no titles are at stake anymore. When the ‘speaker’ announced the lineups, the fans began selective whistles at players. The megaphone volume increased like at a concert, and the targeted players could barely be heard. They were guessed. Vinícius Júnior and Kylian Mbappé were the names accompanied by a more distorted sound afterwards.
Once the match started, only Vinícius received the crowd’s disapproval. One of the usual suspects. It was not as strong as on other afternoons with more passion in the stands, but it was noticeable that he was the first to take the blows.
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However, louder than the whistles was the silence of a quiet Bernabéu, indifferent at times, at least at the beginning of the match.
There was another game, which was in the box. There, a sometimes exuberant Florentino Pérez was seen greeting the fans in a more extroverted attitude than usual, and the Dazn cameras caught him making gestures with a fan sitting in the lower row, in an image where he discusses some aspect with the supporter. Earlier, security had removed a banner in a corner that read “Florentino guilty.” They struggled with the fan. And then another appeared that read “Florentino leave now.”
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