Vinícius Júnior’s brilliance overshadowed by accusations of racism: Football Weekly
Football Weekly
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly, a chaotic night of Champions League |
| 0:16.1 | playoffs. |
| 0:16.8 | In Lisbon, a brilliant Venetious goal overshadowed by accusations of racism against Benfica, Jan Luca Prestiani. Rael were prepared to stop playing, but eventually came out and carried on. Afterwards, Jose chose his words incredibly badly and a grim reminder that this is all still here. Elsewhere, Monaco stunned the holders PSG for 20 minutes. Desire Duay came off the bench and changed it all, giving them a one goal advantage going into going into the second leg. Meanwhile, Yuvé implode at Galatasaray and Dortmund take a healthy lead to Bergamo. While we're in Europe, we'll do a little bit of La Liga and Seria. Also today, McElfeel's heroic FA Cup defeat, a fifth round draw to digest, a bit of EFL as Colchester-Stun Cambridge to leave the Abbey with a point. We'll answer your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. |
| 1:01.2 | On the panel today, Barry Glendening, hello. |
| 1:03.3 | Hi, Max. |
| 1:04.1 | Now, welcome Nikki Bandini. |
| 1:05.2 | Morning. |
| 1:05.9 | And hello, Lars Sivardson. |
| 1:07.6 | Hi, Max. |
| 1:08.7 | Well, we'll start with the Benfica Real Madrid game, |
| 1:10.8 | and I said in the intro totally overshadowed by the accusations of racism, Lars Sivardson. Hi, Max. Well, we'll start with the Benfica Real Madrid game. |
| 1:15.2 | And I said in the intro totally overshadowed by the accusations of racism against Vincius Jr. |
| 1:16.0 | The game was paused after he scored a absolutely brilliant goal. |
| 1:21.9 | He celebrated in the corner, sort of kind of Lee Sharpie celebration. |
| 1:26.2 | And afterwards, he accused Benfica's 20-year-old Argentina, Jan Luca Prestiani, of racism, |
| 1:34.2 | which was backed up by Killingen Mbapé, that he'd used the word mono or monkey a number of times. |
| 1:39.7 | The referee performed the gesture confirmed he was activating the anti-racism protocol. |
| 1:45.9 | And the game was stopped for 10 minutes following conversations between the players, managers and officials the two teams played on. |
| 1:52.8 | I'll just read what a few people said. |
| 1:54.2 | Vinicius said, racists are above all cowards. |
| 1:57.1 | This is on Instagram. |
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