It was in the air, it will be recorded at the next meeting of Real Madrid, who now observe a clear hierarchy in the list of their potential penalty takers. In view of the recent failures of each, Carlo Ancelotti decided in favor of Vinicius Jr.
“ We missed three penalties and that bothers me. I have to take responsibility for choosing who gets to shoot them », whispered to the press the Italian technician last week, at the resumption of the competition against Valencia. An allusion to the recent failures in the exercise of Kylian Mbappé and Jude Bellingham.
Two failures with serious consequences for Mbappé
This season, Vinicius Jr has been faced with this so-called penalty kick four times, for four successes. A perfect performance which pushed Carlo Ancelotti to nominate him at the expense in particular of Kylian Mbappé who had five chances, for three assured goals but above all two bitter and striking failures, in quick succession, against Liverpool in the Champions League and Bilbao in La Liga.
“ Ancelotti, who declared in Valencia that he was going to choose the penalty taker, has already made his decision: it will be Vinicius », trumpets this Wednesday Miguel Angel Diaz, journalist for the Spanish radio station COPE. The Brazilian scored all seven penalties he took in official matches for Real Madrid (including four this season).
