Former Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Fernandez has defended Luis Enrique’s latest media outing about Kylian Mbappé.
Kylian Mbappé (24) scored a hat-trick against Reims, but his coach Luis Enrique was not satisfied with his performance. He criticized him for not putting enough effort into the game. Luis Fernandez, former French international, defended the Spanish technician, believing that he was right to “titillate” the Parisian striker.
“What he certainly criticizes him for is that at a given moment, there are efforts to make replacements, pressing and trying to thwart your opponent. I agree on some things with Luis Enrique but not on everything. He tries to tickle Mbappé. In the first half, Reims was superior to PSG, if you don’t have Donnarumma in goal… Luis Enrique never stopped moving around on the pitch. On PSG’s ball exits, there were some who were a little late and Kylian was also a little late, he wasn’t going,” he judged for beIN SPORTS.
The former PSG coach also wanted Luis Enrique to install a tactical system which would allow the Bondynois to play up front. “Luis Enrique has the courage to say it in front of the media compared to others in the past. Before, PSG was pressing at 7 because Neymar, Messi and Mbappé were not pressing. Today, they are pressing at 9. The 10 is Mbappé. Luis Enrique perhaps wants to tickle Mbappé and make a little comment to him, he continued. What I would like is for Luis Enrique to create a system so that Mbappé is a leading attacker, neither on the right nor on the left. »
