Kylian Mbappé is not coping. If the Getafe reception on Sunday had allowed him to straighten his head after his disastrous performance against Liverpool in the Champions League, the relapse was most brutal on Wednesday. The Bondynois in fact precipitated the loss of his team on the pitch of Athletic Bilbao (2-1), delivering another calamitous performance and missing a penalty which would have allowed Real Madrid to equalize after the Basques opened the score .
After the match, Kylian Mbappé published a message to plead guilty. “Bad result. A big mistake in a match where every detail counts. I take full responsibility for it. It’s a difficult moment, but it’s the best time to change this situation and show who I am,” he wrote on Instagram. Above all, he made a proactive speech to his teammates to assure them of “his determined desire to react and become the true leader of this new project”.
“It’s not up to the team to adapt to him”
A declaration of intent which will not be enough to silence the critics. And for Pedrag Mijatovic, former striker of the Madrid club, the French world champion must on the contrary keep a low profile and acclimatize to his new environment. And to do this, the Montenegrin clearly pleads for a benching!
“He is a player with a lot of pressure and anxiety who wants to do important things to show that he is a superstar,” he confided, adding: “He needs to calm down and it wouldn’t be bad if in some matches he stayed on the bench to soak up the atmosphere. »
And the scorer in the 1998 Champions League final to justify his position. “He has to get used to the demands of Real Madrid. It’s not up to the team to adapt to him.” ; he said while Carlo Ancelotti should certainly have him back in his eleven this Saturday against Girona as well as next week against Atalanta Bergamo in the Champions League.
