Everything goes like rollers for Kylian Mbappé at the moment. Le Bondynois has been on fire since the start of the 2025 calendar year and it remains on a series of three games with a goal scored. If his team experienced a less well with three games without knowing the Liga victory, the Frenchman is clearly not held responsible for these mediocre results, contrary to what could have happened in the first part of the season. Faced with Manchester City tonight, the one who had already marked the first leg knows that he is expected at the turn and that he will be the main offensive asset of the Merengues.
While Vinicius Jr is more and more criticized by Madrid public opinion, Rodrygo can have exceptional series but struggles to be regular and that Jude Bellingham has less impact on the game than the previous season, Kylian Mbappé is therefore Become the offensive reference of the Carlo Ancelotti team. His problems of confidence, physical condition and positioning seem well behind him.
He became a real 9
Moreover, as the media indicates Readerthe question of his position on the ground is no longer a problem. Aligned at the forefront of the attack by Carlo Ancelotti when he usually always preferred the left side, where Vinicius Jr evolves, the Frenchman became a reason but above all, he adapted well to this position. So much so that, now, he prefers to play as number 9 than as IliS. And this, while many observers thought that he was going to have trouble in this register and that Encelotti should have entrusted him with the left flank of the attack. Finally, the figures speak for him: 24 goals scored with Real Madrid this season, 11 of them on the last 10 games.
“The problem for me is that Mbappé is not a center-forward. Whenever he plays with France in n ° 9, it's not good, it's not his position. The problem is that in the left, there is another player who is on the same level … You cannot put Vini on the right or as a center-forward. Where he makes the difference is on the left. Let's see how Ancelotti will do with that ”for example explained Karim Benzema in November. And the Italian succeeded, making Mbappé “His Ronaldo Nazario” as explained Reader. Even if the transalpine tactician still asks a little more efforts on the defensive level to the French. But it is a completely successful adaptation for KM9 therefore …
