You had to get your head back after the road trip against Atlético de Madrid on the past weekend (5-2), and the Merengues were able to do it perfectly in front of Villarreal this Saturday in Liga. A 3-1 victory, which allows them to approach this international truce more serenely. The players of Xabi Alonso had had several situations to take shelter from the first period, but they had shown too much clumsiness, or had come across an Arnau Tenas on the alert.
Very in leg, Kylian Mbappé aroused fear in his opponents, constantly on the heels when defending him. It was the French who found Arda Güler, whose strike from the left was running out of the frame at the start of the game (7th). Tchouameni also thought of opening the scoring of the head to a center of Vinicius (22nd), but it was flirting with the post. Then Mbappé embarked again in a solo rush. He was finally defeated by his former teammate Arnau Tenas (20th).
Mbappé goalscorer in his last 9 games … but released on injury
The facts confirmed the theory that the Frenchman regains his powers during the World Cup years. It was still he who was overflowing to find Mastantuono, whose left shot was saved by Veiga (22nd). Two situations in the background, but the biggest was to put to the credit of Oluwaseyi. Found in depth in counter, he left on the spot Huijsen and Militao. Courtois made an exceptional stop to maintain his life team (40th). In the second half, the entries of Georges Mikautadze and the best player of August in Liga, Nicolas Pépé, finally coincided with the opening of the Merengues score. Found by Mbappé in an eccentric position, Vinicius Junior was transplanted in the axis, eliminated his opposite and marked with the help of another defender (47th).
He offered himself a double on a penalty he had obtained himself, and that Mbappé had taken care to leave him (69th). Barely three minutes later, Georges Mikautadze reduced the gap of a powerful shot at the entrance to the surface which was courteous (73rd). Visitors had situations, but did not always exploit them well. Camavonga, he multiplied the interventions in a service firefighter. Villarreal was finally going to run his loss after the expulsion of Mouriño, suddenly guilty of the face of Vinicius, who had made the difference on the left wing. The punishment arrived: Mbappé scored the goal of the break on a perfect service of Brahim behind (81st), confirming his insolent form of the moment: 13 goals on his last 9 games. He finally came out, grimacing, at the very end of the game. While waiting to learn a little more about the French injury, Real Madrid is temporarily leader of Liga (21 points). Barça could take over in the event of a victory against Seville tomorrow.
