Overview
- Referee Clément Turpin, after a VAR review, penalized Bernardo Silva for a handball and sent him off.
- Vinícius scored the resulting penalty at the Etihad and later found the net again, with his celebrations drawing sustained boos.
- He told reporters the gesture was an imitation of past mocking from the stands rather than disrespect toward Manchester City supporters.
- City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma was seen reproaching Vinícius and urging him to tone down the celebration.
- UEFA continues a separate probe into an alleged discriminatory exchange with Gianluca Prestianni, who served a one-match suspension in the case that FIFA president Gianni Infantino publicly condemned.