{"id":25706,"date":"2024-02-14T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/25706\/real-madrid-hero-diaz-pays\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:49:48","slug":"real-madrid-hero-diaz-pays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=25706","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid hero D\u00edaz pays tribute to injured Bellingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid hero D\u00edaz pays tribute to injured Bellingham\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<p>Alex Kirkland<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rodrigo Faez<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"timestamp \">February 13, 2024, 11:35 p.m.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Brahim D\u00edaz praised his &#8220;world class&#8221; teammate Jude Bellingham after scoring in Real Madrid&#39;s 1-0 Champions League last-16 first leg <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> over RB Leipzig on Tuesday and imitated the famous arm-to-arm goal celebration strained by the injured midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz put Madrid ahead in the 48th minute with a superb individual effort, running at the Leipzig defense before shooting at goalkeeper P\u00e9ter Gul\u00e1csi, leading Bellingham to post &#8220;Oh my god Brahim!&#8221;  on social networks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish winger paid tribute to Bellingham &#8211; who is expected to be out for three weeks with a sprained ankle suffered in Madrid&#39;s 4-0 win over Girona on Saturday &#8211; by celebrating his goal and then addressing to the media after the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like [Bellingham]&#8221;, D\u00edaz told Movistar. &#8220;From the first moment we get along very well.  I help him with his Spanish.  He&#39;s a world-class player, I love playing with him.  Beyond his charisma, he is a great person.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite the absences of Jude, who we missed, and of [Antonio] Rudiger, and all those [players] who have been injured for a long time, we continue to show that we are a great team, that we are Real Madrid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Real Madrid winner Brahim D\u00edaz paid tribute to Jude Bellingham by choosing to celebrate against RB Leipzig. <cite>David S. Bustamante\/Soccrates\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>D\u00edaz started the season struggling to break into the Madrid team after signing from AC Milan, but he has gone from strength to strength and has now scored eight goals in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got the ball, I started running and I saw that they were afraid to jump in, they were running back and I put it in the net,\u201d D\u00edaz said.  &#8220;I&#39;m intuitive, I wanted to give it to Vin\u00edcius [J\u00fanior] but in the end I got the hang of it.  It was a nice goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter two years at Milan, he looks stronger, with more character,\u201d said coach Carlo Ancelotti, when asked about D\u00edaz.  &#8220;He started the season without playing much, but when he got an opportunity he always contributed. Today he scored a spectacular goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What was I thinking [before the goal]?&#8221; added Ancelotti. &#8220;Don&#39;t lose the ball!  And he didn\u2019t!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>La Liga leaders Madrid will now face Rayo Vallecano, Sevilla and Valencia in the league before the second leg against Leipzig at the Santiago Bernabeu on March 6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid hero D\u00edaz pays tribute to injured Bellingham\u060c Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez February 13, 2024, 11:35 p.m. Brahim D\u00edaz praised his &#8220;world class&#8221; teammate Jude Bellingham after scoring in Real Madrid&#39;s 1-0 Champions League last-16 first leg win over RB Leipzig on Tuesday and imitated the famous arm-to-arm goal celebration strained by the injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1539,3971,1823,6807,2184,1985,2183,3121],"class_list":["post-25706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-bellingham","tag-diaz","tag-hero","tag-injured","tag-madrid","tag-pays","tag-real","tag-tribute"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25708,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706\/revisions\/25708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}