The home crowd in attendance at Real Madrid’s meeting with Real Betis on Saturday evening made use of the opportunity to ramp up their push for star attacker Vinícius Jr. to be named the next winner of the Ballon d’Or.
Carlo Ancelotti’s troops of course marked their return to action a short time ago.
As part of the final round of fixtures of the La Liga campaign, Real welcomed the aforementioned Betis to Spain’s capital.
When all was said and done, the sides settled for a point apiece, in a game which felt every bit of an end-of-season dead rubber.
Amid what was essentially a warm-up outing for the Champions League final on the part of their side, though, the Real Madrid faithful made sure to throw their backing behind the aforementioned Vinícius once again.
Amid the widespread understanding that wide-man Vinícius is amongst the very favourites for the next Ballon d’Or, the Santiago Bernabéu crowd were heard belting out chants of:
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