On October 29, 2020, during the break in the first half of the Real Madrid match against M’Gladbach, Los Blancos was leading 0-1 and playing very lazily. In the tunnel preparing to step onto the field, he saw witnessed a classic scandal.

Benzema told Mendy not to pass the ball to Vinicius anymore because the Brazilian striker was playing like he was “breaking the team”. Vinicius then approached Benzema and Mendy, but after that, it was no longer revealed what the conversation was between the three people.

In the entire second half of that match, Mendy only passed to Vinicius exactly 3 times even though they were left wingers and, in theory, had to overlap continuously. However, that did not happen and in the whole second half, Vinicius only had 3 shots that did not hit the target.

Not long after, Benzema apologized to his young teammate and Vinicius accepted.