The situation is complicated for Mbappé

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By: Manu Tournoux

The more weeks and months go, the more Kylian Mbappé seems to blend into the Real Madrid collective. Arrived with drums and trumpets last July, the attacker needed an adaptation time to find his marks. Now, he is already a strong man of his new team and continues the goals. Enough to assert a preferential treatment on the part of his opponents.

More and more mistakes suffered by Le Bondynois, this is the observers that observers made for a few weeks. And not necessarily leniency from the referees. The famous episode of the tackle of Carlos Romero at Espanyol-Real Madrid (1-0) two weeks ago, evidenced. Saturday on the side of Osasuna, Kylian Mbappé was still treated to certain muscular duels. Several particularly committed contacts, opposing attitudes that let a certain tension point, such as when the opposing coach, Vincente Moreno, asked him to stop falling.

Too lax referees?

To cope with a twirling Mbappé, his opponents now seem constrained to use methods that are sometimes a little less orthodox to try to brake it. Author of seventeen goals in twenty-two liga appearances, the 2018 world champion has clearly become a first-rate offensive force. Second top scorer in the championship, two goals behind Robert Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappé sets fire to the opposing defenses.

If he continues on this momentum, the Frenchman knows that he will have to face more aggressiveness in front of him. It remains to be seen if the referees will be a little more inclined to protect it. A point on which observers, such as the newspaper
The teamwonders openly in view of recent events.