Garcia mocks Vinicius during Real Madrid vs Barcelona: “Ballon d’Or for you?”

In a game that ended Barcelona’s four-game losing streak against Real Madrid, defender Eric Garia left no stones unturned in mocking the Madrid frontman Vinicius Jr. 

While Barcelona did beat Madrid 4-0, a certain Vinicius proved out to be quite a menace in Karim Benzema’s absence. The young Brazilian had a clear run on goal in the first half but was denied by Marc-Andre ter Stegen’s quick charge.

The Madrid forward thought he should have won a penalty, but replays showed he had, in fact, tripped through his own roll-up. The 21-year-old went head to head with ter Stegen before Gerard Pique was spotted with his arm around the Brazilian.

Amidst the drama, Eric Garcia picked his moment to mock Vinicius as he reportedly said, “You, next year for the Ballon d’Or, yes? The Ballon d’Or.”

Garcia’s comment was targetted towards Vinicius’ growing admiration. The Brazilian is highly tipped to be a future Ballon d’Or winner.

Garcia and his Barcelona side eventually had the last laugh as they beat Madrid 4-0 away from home. What was even more surprising was Xavi’s plans to use a different backline altogether that saw Ronald Araujo being slotted at the right-back spot.

The main idea behind the change was to use Araujo’s defensive capabilities against Vinicius’s pace, which, in fact, worked well with the Blaugranes as the Brazilian blanked despite being in a great run of form.

The defender even got on the scoresheet, having scored his team’s second in a 4-0 rout. New striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had opened to proceedings a minute before the half-hour mark before Araujo made it two. Ferran Torres was on target soon after the half-time as Aubameyang capped off a 4-0 win with a brace.