Valencia captain Jose Luis Gaya says their fans have been unfairly treated after last season's clash with Real Madrid.
Los Che fans were identified as shouting racist abuse at Vinicius Jr during the game.
With this season's version to be staged this weekend, Gaya recalled last term's controversy: I was trying to take him away from the crowd a bit. At the time, I didn't know that he had been targeted with those gestures or that he had been told anything. I didn't hear it. When Vinicius faces people and goes towards them, what I tried to do is push him away. But at the time I didn't know what I later saw, the gestures of a person or two. But I didn't know it at the time.
I thought the way Valencia and the Valencia fans were treated in the aftermath was very unfair. I've been here for ten years and nothing has ever happened in that sense. It's true that there were four or five who were dumb, that's the reality, and Valencia have acted in the best way they can act, which is by kicking them out.
"Those people will no longer be able to return to the stadium, but I think Valencia and the city and all the people are an example of fans in everything. You can't say that Valencia fans are racist because four or five imbeciles did that. I think it's very unfair."