Johan Micoud is not Kylian Mbappé's biggest admirer, to say the least. Regularly acidic in his remarks as soon as he mentions the captain of the France team, the consultant of L'Equipe du Soir no longer even hides his aversion for the player.
Friday evening, while Mbappé stood out with a goal and an assist against Azerbaijan (3-0), Johan Micoud was almost exclusively negative in the analysis of the performance of the Blues scorer.
Johan Micoud, consultant for La Chaîne L’Equipe.
“ I hear that Mbappé had a good match. I saw him active, but afterwards… Two or three times, he forgot his partners. He doesn't play in the direction of the game, he doesn't play with others. Yes, he was active, he scored a very good goal. By the way, if there is no Ekitiké, I think he loses the ball… “, he thundered.
Micoud forces himself to say good things about Mbappé
The fact remains that the French team was not more convincing without its captain, Monday, in Iceland (2-2). Few offensive players have shown the personality needed to take over. Ludovic Obraniak, who had hypothesized that Mbappé inhibited his teammates by vampirizing the game, recognized that everything was not to be blamed on the captain of the Blues.
The former Lille player thus called on Micoud to “say good things” about Kylian Mbappé for 30 seconds with the show’s new joker card. Johan Micoud then conceded that the Real Madrid striker was “ in legs » this season, and that he seemed on the right track to become “the player he was” again, while emphasizing that he always said “ what he thinks » and that he was not going to “ in the direction of the wind“.
