A strange encounter for Real Madrid on Saturday evening. Facing a dominant Real Sociedad team, which hit the woodwork three times, the Madrilenians still managed to leave San Sebastian with the three points in their pocket. And this, thanks to two penalty goals from Vinicius Junior and Kylian Mbappé. If the Frenchman is fairly unanimously designated as the man of the match on the Madrid side, the Brazilian is almost vilified. Because of his level, but especially his behavior.
In addition to a rather mediocre performance considering what he is capable of doing, his celebration of his goal is indeed controversial. He made the “shush” gesture, inviting the Anoeta crowd and his detractors to be quiet. Which unleashed more than one in Madrid. “With everything that’s been happening around him since last year, he should calm down. All the Madrid players were happy with his goal, then very disappointed with his celebration. That works against him, enormously. I speak with Madridistas, and all or almost all of them are bothered by his behavior.”said Pedrag Mijatovic, former player and manager of the club and now consultant for the SER chain.
He gets destroyed
“Silencing people makes no sense. Now he has a player like Mbappé next to him who doesn’t do anything that could seem aggressive towards the public and who doesn’t argue with anyone, he must let himself be positively influenced by Mbappé”launched the journalist Tomas Roncero, followed by his colleague Julio Pulido: “He is incapable of celebrating a goal normally, he has to provoke the opponent. These things contribute to creating controversy around him and really hurt his image.”.
“These are no longer youthful mistakes. There are many people around him who forgive him everything and that doesn’t do him any good. Within Real Madrid, more and more people think he should change his attitude.”launched Antonio Romero, still on the SER chain. Reactions which therefore show a certain annoyance around the Brazilian, who would perhaps indeed do well to review certain things…
