The disastrous performance delivered by Kylian Mbappé against the Reds further highlighted the psychological difficulties of the Real Madrid striker.
The improvement was (very) short-lived. If he had found a smile again, Saturday, after the La Liga match against Leganes, marked by a repositioning in the left lane, his first goal in more than a month and the status of man of the match, Kylian Mbappé had the mask again, Wednesday, when leaving Anfield after the clash between Liverpool and Real Madrid.
The evening indeed turned into a nightmare for the French striker. And even more than the new defeat conceded by the Merengue, the third in five matches on the European scene, it is his catastrophic performance which is cause for concern. Beyond the missed penalty on the hour mark which could have allowed the Madrilenians to equalize, Kylian Mbappé seemed absent, barely arriving one foot in front of the other. A situation that makes no mistake for Olivier Rouyer, who himself went through a deep depression when he was a player.
“Kylian Mbappé is lost”
“When I see Kylian Mbappé’s last matches, it clicks in my head. I see a similarity there, he thus confided in the columns of Parisian. His match at Liverpool, the worst of his career in the Champions League, shows that he is lost in everything he achieves. I've never seen him so weak. He is extremely disturbed. He does everything at the wrong time. It is the man who must react. I don't know if he talks about it, if he sees a psychologist. Since the start of the season, things have been getting worse and worse for him. »
Olivier Rouyer, however, admits that he himself kept silent about his problems and got through it without anyone's help. “I didn’t tell anyone about it. When things aren't going well, I withdraw into myself. Even to the club doctor, I was afraid to talk about it. I didn't want to see him, he explained. It was not a constant state. I put it down to temporary anxiety about life. And I got through it on my own, without help or taking medication. It lasted a month, it's a long time. But I managed to regain my balance and I have never dived again since. »
