{"id":8504,"date":"2026-02-23T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/benficas-prestianni-gets-provisional-one-match-ban-after-vinicius-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:10:05","slug":"benficas-prestianni-gets-provisional-one-match-ban-after-vinicius-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/benficas-prestianni-gets-provisional-one-match-ban-after-vinicius-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Benfica&#8217;s Prestianni gets provisional one-match ban after Vinicius incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published23 February 2026, 14:41 GMT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Updated 6 minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Benfica&#x27;s Gianluca Prestianni has received a provisional one-match suspension after Real Madrid&#x27;s Vinicius Jr reported alleged racist abuse during last week&#x27;s Champions League meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius told referee Francois Letexier that he had been racially abused by the Argentina winger during the first leg of their Champions League knockout phase play-off tie <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/cpv843x1zgzo\">in Lisbon last Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Uefa announced the provisional ban on Monday following the appointment of an ethics and disciplinary inspector to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The European governing body said further punishment could be handed out once the investigation is completed.<\/p>\n<p>Prestianni has denied racially abusing the Brazilian.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid and Benfica meet for the second leg in the Spanish capital on Wednesday (20:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#x27;s first leg was halted for 10 minutes after Vinicius alerted on-field official Letexier to the second-half incident, before he and his team-mates temporarily left the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>It came after Vinicus, 25, scored a stunning goal and then received a yellow card for his celebrations in front of the Benfica supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Benfica manager Jose Mourinho, who is suspended for the second leg following his sending off later in the match, was criticised for his post-match comments after saying he believed that Vinicius had celebrated disrespectfully.<\/p>\n<p>Because of his ban, Mourinho will not speak to the media before the match &#8211; but Benfica have the option of making the assistant coach available instead.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/real-madrid\">Real Madrid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/champions-league\">UEFA Champions League<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\">Football<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce8e6y90g2jo\">\n<p>Follow your club with BBC Sport<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published17 October 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sounds\/series\/p02nrsln\">\n<p>Listen to the latest Football Daily podcast<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/articles\/cl5q9dk9jl3o\">\n<p>Get football news sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published16 August 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benfica&#x27;s Prestianni gets provisional one-match banImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Vinicius Jr&#x27;s goal gave Real Madrid a 1-0 first-leg advantage over Benfica Published23 February 20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}