In everyone’s opinion, despite his goal scored, Kylian Mbappé was very average against Gibraltar. The PSG striker struggled to weigh on the game, missing too many things technically. For Daniel Riolo, this is explained by the excessive pretension of the player.
The captain was in trouble on Friday night in Gibraltar. Unlike his last outings in the French team and in particular his match against the Netherlands in March, Kylian Mbappé was not very dashing against the 201st nation in the world. He made few differences and above all made too many errors on the technical level. Most of the media did not appreciate his game despite the fact that he scored a goal and caused an own goal. The team only gave him a small 5 in extremis for example. Mbappé’s copy clearly needs to be improved before the reception of Greece on Monday.
Mbappé wants to do too much, he must play simple
To explain this difficult match for the PSG prodigy, we can put forward the fact that Gibraltar defended well and left little space behind. We can also talk about the poor quality of a lawn that is far too dry or highlight a French team at the senator’s train on Friday. Daniel Riolo does not want to give in to the easy and points the finger at the mentality of Kylian Mbappé. On RMC, he felt that the PSG player had missed his match because he did not know how to play simple enough. Mbappé wanted to do too much, especially in his dribbling, causing failures. Even his penalty was not appreciated by Riolo and symbolizes Mbappé’s cute sin: wanting to show too much.
🗣 “When he wants to be show-off, he’s very annoying. Technically it’ll never be Neymar or Messi. He doesn’t have that relationship with the ball”
🇬🇧 Daniel Riolo didn’t like Mbappé’s game against Gibraltar. pic.twitter.com/qsc0ffKjkJ
— After Foot RMC (@AfterRMC) June 16, 2023
“ He’s done tons of them. He still has this fault, something that shocks me is this technical waste he may have. This is completely crazy. When he loses so many balloons, but above all he loses them because he wants to do everything, he wants to totally monopolize everything and he plays rock-star style like a show-off by making tons of them… I find that it is symbolized by the way he has to take penalties, a way that I find debilitating like a double step in the NBA. He forces himself to look at the goalkeeper, he does it out of fashion because a lot of guys want to shoot penalties like that. But, fuck normally shoot! In addition, he does not control the gesture. When he wants to be show-off Mbappé, he is very annoying. Technically, it will never be Messi or Neymar. He will never have their touch of the ball “, analyzed Daniel Riolo in After Foot. In other words, he summons Kylian Mbappé to find a little humility under penalty of experiencing new outings in blue like at PSG.
