{"id":114228,"date":"2026-03-17T23:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/vinicius-gets-revenge-crying-celebration-against-city-and-madrids-qualification\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:48:24","slug":"vinicius-gets-revenge-crying-celebration-against-city-and-madrids-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/vinicius-gets-revenge-crying-celebration-against-city-and-madrids-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin\u00edcius Gets Revenge: &#8220;Crying&#8221; Celebration Against City and Madrid&#8217;s Qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior Responds with Goals and Celebration in Real Madrid&#8217;s Victory<\/h2>\n\nReal Madrid&#8217;s star forward, Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior, starred in a memorable night in the match against Manchester City, scoring two crucial goals in the 2-1 victory that secured a place in the Champions League quarter-finals with an aggregate score of 5-1.\n\nVin\u00edcius&#8217; celebration, which simulated crying, was a direct response to a banner displayed by City fans last season, which read &#8220;stop crying&#8221;.\n\nIn the match, Vin\u00edcius converted a penalty in the 22nd minute and scored a second goal in added time, thus sealing his outstanding performance.\n\nAfter missing a penalty in the first leg, Vin\u00edcius didn&#8217;t miss from the spot this time, deceiving the opposing goalkeeper and celebrating with gestures that reflected the tension of the moment.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Football is that good, there&#8217;s always another chance. We&#8217;ve won here and we&#8217;re in the quarter-finals.<\/p><cite>Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn addition to his goals, Vin\u00edcius also made a gesture to the public indicating the 4-0 on the aggregate score, demonstrating Real Madrid&#8217;s superiority in the tie.\n\nThe Brazilian player had an active night, with a disallowed goal and a total of seven shots, three of them on target, with an expected goals (xG) of 2.58.\n\nVin\u00edcius highlighted the importance of the match for the team&#8217;s confidence, mentioning the consistency shown in the knockout stage.\n\nThe forward revealed that he initially wanted Federico Valverde to take the penalty, but ultimately took responsibility and managed to score.\n\nReal Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was substituted at halftime as a precaution. Coach \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa downplayed any concerns about a possible injury, hoping to have the goalkeeper for the next derby against Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior Responds with Goals and Celebration in Real Madrid&#8217;s Victory Real Madrid&#8217;s star forward, Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior, starred in a memorable night in the match against Manchester City, scoring two crucial goals in the 2-1 victory that secured a place in the Champions League quarter-finals with an aggregate score of 5-1. Vin\u00edcius&#8217; celebration, which simulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[270,1200,254,402],"class_list":{"0":"post-114228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-manchester-city","10":"tag-real-madrid","11":"tag-vinicius-junior"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}