Vinicius has since issued an apology<\/a> over the matter, but interestingly, it was not directed at Alonso \u2013 rather, the fans. On the matter, Barcelona and Brazil icon Rivaldo has had his say, and he has come to the defence of his compatriot in his alleged rift with the Real Madrid manager, as per Sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cVinicius Junior\u2019s reaction was not correct, because he said some bad things, and that looks ugly. But you can understand his anger: he was playing well, he was the protagonist, he participated in the second goal, and he kept the ball up well. I think he was irritated, not only because of the substitution itself, but because it has already happened to him in other games, he has already been on the bench.<\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, a player like Vinicius, who is worth so much to Real Madrid and is the club\u2019s heritage, cannot spend seven games being substituted. And even less so in a classic that was winning by the minimum, that Barcelona could draw and that he could finish deciding.\u201d<\/p>\n Rivaldo also had his say on Barcelona\u2019s underwhelming performance at the Bernabeu. He felt that Hansi Flick\u2019s side were nowhere near their best against Real Madrid.<\/p>\n \u201cAs always, there were controversies in plays in favour of Real Madrid. Even so, I didn\u2019t see a great Barcelona, as on other occasions. The team feels a lot about the lack of players like Raphinha or Lewandowski. But this time they only played well at times.\u00a0I didn\u2019t like Barcelona\u2019s performance.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Barcelona icon defends Vinicius Junior amid Xabi Alonso dispute<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid may have won El Clasico, but in the days since, there has been a lot of focus on one particular negative…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Vinicius](\"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/real-madrid-cf-v-fc-barcelona-laliga-ea-sports-min-2-scaled.jpg\")
Rivaldo: \u201cI didn\u2019t like Barcelona\u2019s performance in El Clasico\u201d<\/h2>\n