The situation is tense in Madrid. Between poor results, fairly mediocre play and a complex relationship between Xabi Alonso and some of his executives, Real Madrid is in crisis. A difficult context, and this while the capital club is in first place in La Liga… If the Basque coach is strongly criticized, he is logically not the only man singled out and held responsible for the Merengues’ problems.
Rodrygo, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Dean Huijsen or even, to a lesser degree, Vinicius Jr and Fede Valverde, are thus strongly criticized in the local press. And Kylian Mbappé then? Silent during his last three outings under the Madrid tunic – and with this new controversy in the French team in the middle – the Tricolore is not yet really targeted or criticized by our neighbors, aware that he supported the Madrilenians at the start of the season. On the other hand, there is a little worry that is starting to set in, particularly because we see, at times, the Mbappé of the complicated moments of last season.
A less interesting contribution
Indeed, we see again a KM9 capable of creating situations of course, but a little less inspired in front of goal, less lethal in the last meters. In the game, he is also less good, sometimes seeming to insist on asking for the ball at his feet far from the area rather than making calls. Marcawho gave him a 5/10 for his match against Elche, also points out that he is sometimes desperate and frustrated on the pitch. We see it through gestures, or even his breakdown with the referee at the end of the match which earned him a yellow card.
It must be said that he is also handicapped by an offensive animation that goes wrong, and the balls arrive with difficulty in front, which explains why he sometimes persists in stalling too much. If he still remains first in the Pichichi rankings with 13 goals in La Liga – 5 more than Lewandowski – new performances like those against Rayo Vallecano or Elche could (re)start to raise eyebrows in the bays of the Santiago Bernabéu…
