Kylian Mbappé started the new season perfectly. Sharp, the former Parisian already has three goals in just three games with Real Madrid and will be one of the best assets of the Blues during the two matches of the 2026 World Cup against Ukraine and Iceland.
And as in Real Madrid, the Bondynois could be aligned at the forefront of the tricolor attack by Didier Deschamps. Ousmane Dembélé is indeed expected to start on the right flank and Bradley Barcola and Désiré Goué are in balance to occupy the left side.
But for Jean-Pierre Papin, Kylian Mbappé is slow to take the measure of the position. “I think it will never be a new surface number, he thus brought to the microphone of RMC. I would say he doesn't have it yet. I do not know if he will have it, I do not think because we have it or we do not have it from the start. Him, its main quality is speed, the main quality is depth. I think it does not have this ability today to stop and stay where you have to be when you play a surface attacker. »»
“Kylian Mbappé has not integrated it today”
“That is to say that you have to be between the penalty spot and the six meters, and I believe that Mbappé has not integrated it today, he continued. I think it's complicated. This is where he still has to progress, and there I still put downside because when we talk about the captain of the French Team … “
For JPP, Kylian Mbappé also signed a very good first season at Real Madrid. “His last year, you arrive in a new club, you need a relatively important adaptation time because Real is still Real and you do not impose yourself overnight. Despite everything, he still did a year which is very good because he has scored a lot of goals and he had a lot of goals scored ”, he stressed, also convinced that Kylian Mbappé had “Qualities” To be a large number 9, “It is certainty. »»
