Vinicius' post-match comments give ESPN FC plenty to discuss
Real Madrid's win over Roma shares the upload shelf with Cole Palmer and iShowSpeed playing FC 27.
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Is Real Madrid better WITHOUT Vinicius Junior? 😳 Reaction to his post-match comments | ESPN FC
What gets more attention than a Real Madrid comeback? On ESPN FC's upload shelf, the conversation afterward. The panel's response to Vinicius Junior's post-match comments was the most-watched of the channel's new releases, reaching roughly 146,000 views.
Dan Thomas is joined by Shaka Hislop, Steve Nicol, Frank Leboeuf and Alex Kirkland to discuss Madrid's 4-3 Champions League win over Roma. The title asks whether Madrid is better without Vinicius, framing a team-selection debate rather than simply revisiting the score. Several commenters focus instead on his use of the third person when speaking about himself.
That discussion also appears in a longer edition covering his suspension, Lisandro Martinez's apology after Manchester United's loss to Atletico Madrid, and the Champions League results. Across fifteen uploads, there was room for football with considerably lower stakes too: clips credited to iShowSpeed put him opposite Cole Palmer in FC 27, including a separate upload about Palmer's 18-0 win.
The Vinicius discussion and the first Speed-Palmer clip are also the channel's busiest uploads right now. Across the whole catalog, daily views are comfortably above their usual level, while the subscriber count finished the week unchanged. Nearby football outlets have their own busy spells: CBS Sports Golazo and TNT Sports Football are both drawing much larger daily audiences than usual.
For ESPN FC, the week's roughly 12.6 million views encompass both sides of its familiar mix: a panel picking apart the aftermath of a match, and a footballer making life difficult for a streamer with a controller.
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- 5,390,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 12,550,506
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- 15
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- October 15, 2026
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- 145,564
- Views on its first day
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