The Madrid press is not kind to “his” Real. Threatened by FC Barcelona this Sunday, January 12 in the final of the Spanish Super Cup (5-2), despite Kylian Mbappé’s opening score at the very start of the match, the capital club has since found itself under fire from reviews.
When the Catalans of Mundo Deportivo savor the “Súper Manita” of FC Barcelona, in reference to the five goals scored to win this meeting, the Madrid press is disillusioned. On the front page of the AS newspaper, we deplore a “Superpaliza”, meaning a “Super beating” in French, when Marca recognizes that Barca have “dismantled Madrid”. The team was “a real sieve” according to the Madrid daily which can only praise the “sublime performances of Yamine Lamal”.
Conversely, certain executives of the team defeated on Sunday evening were strongly criticized. “Tchouaméni, never again,” begins Tomás Roncero, editorial executive at AS, a pro-Madrid media outlet. “Tchouaméni as a central defender is no longer acceptable,” he continues in his editorial. The Frenchman still has not understood the secrets of the position. He positions himself poorly, he does not correct when he is caught from behind, he is very slow in the withdrawal and he is not even capable of covering the opponent’s shots in front of him. »
A Barça “festival”
The general media “El Pais” welcomes “the Barça festival” and explains that “the Blaugrana massively dominated an unrecognizable Madrid”. The journalist Ramon Besa regrets the “recklessness” of Eduardo Camavinga, at the origin of a penalty in favor of FC Barcelona, the “poor defense” of Real and describes “chaos” among Carlo Ancelotti’s men which contrasted with “the foresight of Barça, as effective outside with Lamine and Balde as inside with Gavi and Pedri”.
Only three White House players seem to have made a positive impression during this meeting. “General failure except for Courtois, Rodrygo and Mbappé”, judges Marca, who gave the French a score of 7/10 when judging his performance. “It is sad that the best match of the Frenchman, who tried until the end, ended in such a rout,” adds the Madrid daily.
The former Paris Saint-Germain striker, whose performance was praised by his coach Carlo Ancelotti, was also spared by the newspaper AS, which found him “divine” “in one of Real’s most hellish evenings Modern Madrid.” For the media, this was “the best Mbappé since he signed for Madrid”. The 2018 world champion will have a new opportunity to show himself this Thursday, January 16 in the Coupe du Roi. Real faces Celta Vigo in the round of 16 of the competition.
