The defeat conceded by Real Madrid on the lawn of Betis Sevilla (1-0) on Friday immediately reignited tensions on the other side of the Pyrenees. If FC Barcelona took advantage of this misstep to take the lead in La Liga alone, it is above all the performance and attitude of Kylian Mbappé – author of a big miss in the first period then a missed penalty at the end of the match – which are focusing the attention of the Iberian media.
Despite an already convincing statistical record at the start of the season (4 goals), the French international is already being disliked by the supporters. On the airwaves of Cadena COPE, the journalist Juanma Castaño pointed out that part of the Merengue people retains the after-effects of last seasons past.
“ There is a part of madridismo that is not with Mbappé. There is a kind of wound that is still there with some madridistas, I don’t know if they forgive him for the negative things of recent years.”he confided, recalling: “we haven’t won any titles with him, he made some teammates bad, he didn’t want to come, he does what he wants, at the end of last season he was thinking about the World Cup and not Real Madrid…”
A lack of defensive investment
In addition to the frustration linked to missed opportunities, observers targeted the lack of defensive investment from the Frenchman and his teammate Vinicius Jr. On the Cadena SER, the consultants pointed out that modern football requires constant pressing from the entire block, while the two stars are accused of only running when it suits them, overloading the work of their midfielders.
“ Mbappé and Vinicius are good, but in modern football, everyone has to run. They run when it suits them. If they ran a little more, it could help the rest of the players,” cursed Javier Herraez on the radio.
And the story is the same in the Madrid press. “After two seasons, Kylian Mbappé has proven nothing. We know that he is a superb striker and his statistics prove it but he is not a leader, nor even an example for others. He can’t be an important player for Real if he just scores goals. He must bring more. » can we read in AS.
While criticism is intensifying around his technical relationship with the management and his partners, Kylian Mbappé must quickly silence the debates and relaunch the Madrid dynamic.
