The aftershock was barely less violent than the Anfield earthquake. A week after Kylian Mbappé’s cataclysmic performance on the Liverpool pitch, the former Parisian delivered another calamitous performance on Wednesday at San Mames. If hope had returned after his match against Getafe this Sunday, it quickly disappeared.
Kylian Mbappé was transparent in Bilbao, seeming cut off from the rest of the team and without ideas. And like in a bad film, the Bondynois once again missed a penalty which would have allowed Real Madrid to equalize. And this time, the Madrid press is being ruthless with the French world champion.
“Still not up to par”, thus titled
Marcawith the photo of a Kylian Mbappé
“ghostly and out of character”.
A turkey better than Kylian Mbappé!
The criticism certainly encompasses all of Real Madrid and in particular its coach Carlo Ancelotti: “The easiest thing is to target Kylian (Mbappé) and not tackle the real problem, which is in the team’s plan. Or rather in the absence of a plan. What is Madrid playing? Three and a half months of competition have passed and no one knows it”we can read in the interior pages.
However, Kylian Mbappé is particularly targeted.
“At the top level, we don’t remember a collapse like that of Mbappé at Real Madrid. A turkey, on Thanksgiving Day, has more confidence than Kylian Mbappé,
thus writes an editorialist. He doesn’t dribble past anyone, he can’t find his place. There is no way to see even crumbs of the PSG version of Mbappé. » A chasm separates these two versions of Mbappé. “The Mbappé that Real Madrid imagined having signed would undoubtedly have already scored 30 goals, but this one achieves nothing”, adds another journalist.
And the tone is the same in the AS columns.
“The start of the Mbappé era at Real Madrid is an endless cycle: offside goals, obvious chances that end up on the opposing goalkeeper and even one of his weapons, the penalties, goes off the rails,” can we read in the other Madrid daily, which also writes: “Mbappé, it’s starting to become a horror film. After an hour in turmoil in San Mamés, without offering anything, the match gave him an opportunity to rebuild himself like in Liverpool, but he missed again. »
