For several weeks, he has become one of the best players in the world again and has silenced all his detractors. Arrived freely last summer from PSG, Kylian Mbappé has had a first contrasted season with Real Madrid. After having experienced several difficulties in adapting to this new team and this new environment, Le Bondynois was behind the ignition. After a complicated 2024 year between an end of a sausage water adventure with Paris and a euro failed with France, the 26-year-old attacker was not helped by extra-sports problems that necessarily affected him during of the last months. However, its rise in power has been felt for several weeks and the number 9 of the Merengues is now running at full speed.
This Saturday, the Madrid still radiated against Real Valladolid (0-3). Author of his first tripled under the Madrid tunic, Mbappé was the great craftsman of victory on the lawn of the Red Lantern. A grand performance that had necessarily delighted the captain of the Blues after the meeting: “I said from the first day that I could play three positions in the attack, that I had to adapt to the team and now the two things are clear. I can play in attack on the right, in the center, on the left. My movements are made naturally with my teammates and we must continue. I can say that I must help them, as well as the whole team, because what we want is that Madrid wins. If I am Pichichi, that's good, I have been several times in my career, but I want to win titles with the team.»»
Kylian Mbappé works in the footsteps of Cristiano Ronaldo
While he had erected the 40 goals' mark in all competitions as a goal for his first season in Madrid, Kylian Mbappé is off to reach this altitude with 21 goals scored in 31 games so far. Author of 8 goals in the last 5 games, the former AS Monaco is in great shape and has therefore become the first Madrid to mark a triple outside in Liga from Alvaro Morata. However, the Spanish press does not compare Mbappé with the AC Milan striker on Monday. Indeed, Marca decided to make one by explaining that Kylian Mbappé is in a better rhythm than Cristiano Ronaldo.
Indeed, while the Portuguese completed its first cuvée with the White House by scoring 33 goals, Kylian Mbappé is off to exceed his idol as explained by the Madrilene media. On the other hand, the Portuguese had reached this total in just 35 games when the Merengues had not had as many matches at the time and that they had been quickly eliminated in the King's Cup by Alcocon and in the Champions League facing OL. While Mbappé already has 31 matches at the end of January, there is no doubt that he will largely exceed the number of matches played by CR7 in his first season in the Iberian capital. It remains to be seen whether this will be enough to exceed its number of goals. For the Spanish press, this is nevertheless no doubt …
