Vinicius Jr responds to Man City banner mocking him after Real Madrid fightback

Vinicius Jr had the past laughter implicit Manchester City fans aft Real Madrid’s thrilling Champions League comeback.

City looked to beryllium successful power of the archetypal limb of Tuesday’s play-off astatine the Etihad but goals from Brahim Diaz and Jude Bellingham saw Los Blancos gully archetypal humor up of the 2nd limb successful Madrid adjacent week, sealing a 3–2 win.

City fans revelled successful taunting Vinicius passim the contest. The Brazil planetary was expected to scoop the Ballon d’Or grant past twelvemonth only to beryllium pipped by City prima Rodri.

Real Madrid and Vinicius responded by furiously boycotting the awards ceremony successful protest.

Reminding Vinicius of Rodri’s triumph, City fans unfurled an Oasis-inspired banner of the Spain planetary clutching the grant on with the message: ‘Stop crying your bosom out’.

The 24-year-old was astatine the centre of Real’s melodramatic fightback, however, providing the assistance for Bellingham’s winner, besides scooping the antheral of the lucifer award

With City targeting him with chants of ‘where’s your Ballon d’Or?’, Vinicius casually pointed retired the badge representing Real’s 15 Champions League successes connected his near shoulder, having won 2 of them himself.

To hitch further brackish successful the wounds, Vinicius reminded City fans to ‘know our history’ erstwhile quizzed connected the attraction helium received post-match.

‘I spot it, but whenever the opposing fans bash things, they springiness maine much spot to play a large crippled and I did that here,’ Vinicius told Movistar.

‘They cognize our history, everything we bash successful this competition. It’s the 5th clip we’ve come, it’s ever precise acold and we person to proceed on this line.’

He added: ‘It wasn’t bad, I was capable to play a large game, we defended precise good and it doesn’t substance who scores goals oregon is the MVP, we are present to bash large things for this garment and enactment Madrid successful the highest place.

‘There is inactive a batch of crippled near successful the instrumentality leg, we person to support arsenic we did contiguous and person our fans with america to marque it a magical night.’

Real tin publication their spot successful the past 16 of the Champions League adjacent week with the instrumentality limb taking spot astatine the Bernabeu adjacent Wednesday.

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