{"id":798481,"date":"2026-10-10T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798481\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:38:15","slug":"real-madrid-1-0-villarreal-vinicius-jr-sent-off-for-hair-pull-in-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798481\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid 1-0 Villarreal: Vinicius Jr sent off for hair pull in win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Substitute Vinicius Jr was dramatically sent off for pulling the hair of Nathan Saliba in Real Madrid’s narrow win over Villarreal.<\/p>\n

The Brazil forward thought he had scored a second goal for Real, with boss Jose Mourinho joining in his team’s celebrations on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

However, the goal was then ruled out after the referee reviewed the build-up on the pitchside monitor, with Vinicius clearly shown to have pulled Saliba’s hair before scoring.<\/p>\n

The referee then produced a red card and sent off Real’s No 7 for violent conduct in the 72nd minute – 20 minutes after he had replaced England defender Trent Alexander-Arnold.<\/p>\n

Real were already leading 1-0 through teenager Yan Diomande’s first goal for the club since joining from RB Leipzig for a fee worth up to \u00a3120m in August.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old struck in the 62nd minute, his low finish into the far corner originally ruled out by an offside flag before being overturned after a video assistant referee (VAR) review.<\/p>\n

After leaders Barcelona beat Getafe 3-0<\/a> earlier in the day, Real needed the victory to close the gap to the defending champions, but struggled to make an impression before Diomande’s effort.<\/p>\n

With eight games gone, Mourinho’s men, who visit Barca on 25 October, are six points off top spot.<\/p>\n

It was a frustrating night for Kylian Mbappe who wasted a couple of good chances as well as being denied by goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi, while England midfielder Jude Bellingham was booked for a foul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Substitute Vinicius Jr was dramatically sent off for pulling the hair of Nathan Saliba in Real Madrid’s narrow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-798481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}