{"id":487191,"date":"2026-02-18T04:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487191\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T04:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:32:08","slug":"champions-league-live-real-madrid-beat-benfica-in-match-halted-for-alleged-racist-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487191\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League LIVE: Real Madrid beat Benfica in match halted for alleged racist abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We have to fight against racism&#8217;published at 23:10 GMT 17 February<\/p>\n<p>23:10 GMT 17 February<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Benfica 0-1 Real Madrid<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e5b12344-5480-46bb-ac40-217585052981.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Real Madrid<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Real Madrid boss Alvaro Arbeloa, speaking to Amazon Prime about the incident with Vinicius Junior: &#8220;You have to ask Benfica&#8217;s players, it is not a question for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On if that is because of what is alleged to have been said to Vinicius Jr: &#8220;Yes. I think everyone can see what happened with Prestianni. He put his shirt in his mouth and now you have to ask him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On what Vinicius Jr said to him: &#8220;What Vini said is not important. I think we need to fight against racism. It is the most important thing now in football. We support Vini now, of course, and now you have to ask them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Of course we have to fight against this type of attitude and to focus on football, but first we have to fight against things like that. We have to fight, especially the footballers. If we don&#8217;t respect each other it is difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On whether Vinicius Jr needed to be persuaded to come back on: &#8220;We spoke with him. He wanted to play, he wanted to help the team. He wanted to continue on the field and we fight until the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We have to fight against racism&#8217;published at 23:10 GMT 17 February 23:10 GMT 17 February FT: Benfica 0-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-487191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}