Daniel Riolo returned to the little admonitions that Luis Enrique addressed to Kylian Mbappé after PSG’s victory in Reims on Saturday (3-0).
Since last summer, Daniel Riolo has often been singled out for his proximity to the Mbappé clan. The RMC journalist was criticized for lacking objectivity with the French international. However, Riolo does not spare the PSG star in the current period.
Against all expectations, the editorialist made quite critical comments when commenting on the small admonitions that Luis Enrique addressed to the striker on Saturday after his hat-trick in Reims (3-0). »Now, I found it interesting, at first, casually, surprising! Because the coaches, whether Mbappé or the other recent stars of the club, no one ever dared to say anything about them… The players were untouchable”, Riolo said. “ There after he scores 3 goals, Enrique comes and says: I expect more, I believe that collectively he must bring to the team, I am not going to applaud and talk about courage but I found it interesting and at least try to understand what he meant.”
“ I don’t want to see Mbappé who looks like Ronaldo at the end of his career. »
“ I saw a team play collectively and another who held on thanks to a goalkeeper in a crazy afternoon and a striker who is so above the rest who, as he said himself, can score goals without doing much of anything, » Riolo continued in After Foot. “ Against Reims, apart from his three goals, there was nothing! Every time he received a ball, every time he made a pass everything was bad, he missed everything it was surprising, even shocking. He made a pass, it was missed, he didn’t come down to defend, he didn’t get back into position, he tried to dribble, it didn’t go through but he scored a hat-trick and it’s extraordinary. If he scored a hat-trick we can’t criticize him? I don’t want to see Mbappé who looks like Ronaldo at the end of his career. »
“ What are you doing for the collective? People will tell me he scores the goals, yeah ok okay except that in the game, I still have the feeling that the team is in regression, so it’s not just his fault it would be hard to say that but between the project sold by Luis Enrique and what we see on Saturday it’s not that. In the end the fact that he says that Mbappé does more for the collective, I expect more from him, I find that somewhat healthy, he must lead by example, but in the game I find him extinguished, tired, he does not I’m not in the collective, it bothers me“, he concluded.
