Mbappé is starting to get on your nerves: this confidence from a player that says a lot

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By: Manu Tournoux

Despite his arrival with great fanfare at Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappé is not yet on conquered territory on the other side of the Pyrenees.

Since his spectacular entry into the world of football, Kylian Mbappé can boast of having received compliments from the greatest. From the two Ronaldos to Zinédine Zidane, via Pep Guardiola, José Mourinho, Jürgen Klopp or the late Pelé and Diego Maradona, the prodigy from Bondy has been showered with praise.

But we can be praised by the greatest and
pointed out by much less high-sounding names after a banal championship match. This is what the 2018 world champion was able to attest on Sunday evening. Author of a double which allowed him to unlock his counter in La Liga, during the match of Real Madrid against Betis Seville (2-0), the former Parisian did not really impress his opponents of the day.

“If he was unstoppable, he would have scored on day one, right?”

The scene has been seen all over Spanish television. It shows a Betis player, the Spanish attacking midfielder Pablo Fornals, expressing his annoyance after a multitude of questions about Kylian Mbappé.

If Mbappé is unstoppable? I don’t know, said the Betis player. If he was unstoppable, he would have scored from the first day, right? I understand that he is a great player and that Real Madrid have the best players in the world. That’s what they are trying to do and that’s why they signed him, so that they score goals…“. Fornals raised his voice again after being relaunched. “Are you going to ask me about Betis or just Mbappé?”. Atmosphere…

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