An anthology chisel for an electric meeting. Real Madrid qualified for the semi-finals of the Club World Cup by overcoming Borussia Dortmund (3-2), but beyond the result, we will remember the image of the evening: the jewel of Kylian Mbappé. A goal come from elsewhere, as a clear message sent to its future and former club, Paris Saint-Germain, which the Madrid will find for a shock from the Titans. Madrid won, but was also scary, confirming his new face, attractive but sometimes still feverish.
Madrid youth takes power
For more than an hour, Real Madrid Xabi Alonso version recited an attractive partition. More intense, more pressing, more collective, this Real literally suffocated the German club. And it was the children of Valdebebas, the famous Madrid's “Cantera”, who concretized this domination. First the young prodigy Gonzalo García, who continues to impress, then the lateral French, after a superb collective movement. 2-0 at the break. Real controlled its subject, developing total football which was cutting with the previous outings. The Xabi Alonso paw already seemed to do wonders.
And Mbappé flew
Coming into play in the second half to find the pace after being put on the side by a virus, Kylian Mbappé only needed a few minutes to remind the football planet who was the boss. While Dortmund had just reduced the scoring in additional time, making the stadium shiver, the Frenchman, on a center of Arda Güler, rose in the air to execute a gathered chisel of crystalline purity. A crazy gesture, an exceptional goal which brought the scoring to 3-1 and which should have definitively ended the debates. A pure moment of genius for his 44th goal of the season.
The youth and the genius of Mbappé describe Real for a shock against Paris
A crazy end of the match, a warning before Paris
But this real, as attractive as it is, still has old demons and an annoying tendency to complicate life. Just after the jewel of his star, he conceded a penalty on a fault by the young defender Dean Huijsen, who was receiving in the passage of a red card. An expulsion that will deprive him of the duel against PSG. Dortmund transformed the sentence to bring the final score to 3-2. The victory was there, deserved throughout the match, but this final relaxation, this ability to be scared unnecessarily, leaves a strange taste and a clear warning before the semi-final.
The shock of the titans will take place
Real Madrid therefore has its long -awaited shock. The semi-final facing PSG will take place and promises to be explosive. The Madrid will move forward with the certainty of having a Kylian Mbappé back to his best level, capable of gestures from another world. But they will also move forward with the doubt instilled by this end of the chaotic match and the absence of Huijsen in defense. To the delight of suspense lovers and beautiful stories, this reunion promises to be electric, unpredictable and unmissable.
