FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Champions League - Group A - Club Brugge v Real Madrid - Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges, Belgium - December 11, 2019 Real Madrid's Rodrygo celebrates scoring their first goal REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
MADRID (Reuters) - Real Madrid's plan to give Brazilian Rodrygo Goes some extra playing time in the reserves backfired badly after the forward was sent off on Sunday following an overzealous celebration and is now suspended from next week's 'Clasico' against Barcelona.
Rodrygo, 18, has been playing for both Zinedine Zidane's first team and reserve side Castilla in the third tier of Spanish soccer and was involved in farcical scenes in Sunday's 2-0 win at home to San Sebastian de los Reyes.
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