{"id":933144,"date":"2026-10-14T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933144\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:04:09","slug":"real-madrids-vinicius-jr-to-miss-barcelona-game-because-of-four-game-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933144\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid&#8217;s Vinicius Jr to miss Barcelona game because of four-game ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr will miss El Clasico against Barcelona after being given a four-game ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Brazil international was sent off for pulling Nathan Saliba&#8217;s hair in Real&#8217;s 1-0 win against Villarreal last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His suspension means he will miss games against Sevilla (18 October), Barcelona (25 October), Racing Santander (1 November) and Valencia (7 November). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vinicius Jr came on after 52 minutes against Villarreal and thought he had scored his side&#8217;s second goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the referee reviewed the build-up on the pitchside monitor and, with Vinicius clearly being shown to have pulled Saliba&#8217;s hair before scoring, sent him off and disallowed the goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Spanish football federation&#8217;s disciplinary committee suspended the winger for two games for &#8220;behaving violently &#8230; (while) not being in a position to challenge for the ball&#8221; and a further two matches for &#8220;protests&#8221; to the officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the match, Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho did not attend the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vinicius also later apologised when he posted a message on social media, saying he was &#8220;sorry to the team and the [Real Madrid] fans&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr will miss El Clasico against Barcelona after being given a four-game ban. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-933144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}