Didier Deschamps chose not to call up Kylian Mbappé with the France team to face Israel and Italy this week in the Nations League. And Daniel Riolo does not rule out that the Real Madrid striker could miss out again during the Blues' next games.
The France team will continue to evolve without Kylian Mbappé this week. Didier Deschamps has decided not to summon his usual captain, already absent last month, to face Israel (this Thursday at the Stade de France) and Italy (Sunday in Milan) in the League of Nations. A choice that the coach did not want to justify in detail to the press.
“There is only one reason,” assured Daniel Riolo on Monday in After Foot on RMC. “I maintain 1000% that it's the right reason: Deschamps is making him pay for what happened the previous time. Not that he wouldn't have come, because if he wasn't just not come by mutual agreement, it was going smoothly it's just that: 'I'm injured, I'm not coming' and three days later, you play (with Real Madrid, Editor's note), it provoked Deschamps. obligation to say something which turned out to be bogus and therefore it made him look like a moron and behind it, he couldn't let that pass in terms of authority and even simply in human terms. above, it's rather a decision that I understand. So he ruled out Mbappé.”
“I’m not sure Mbappé can digest that”
After recalling Didier Deschamps' sometimes complicated relationships with some of his players like Antoine Griezmann, Benjamin Pavard or Karim Benzema, Daniel Riolo estimated that the non-call-up of Kylian Mbappé could leave its mark. To the point of lastingly damaging the bond between the coach and his top scorer.
“Mbappé, rightly or wrongly, it’s up to him, I’m not sure he digests that,” explained the After Foot member.
“I'm not sure that he digests what is considered a form of punishment. So it is not excluded that Mbappé does not come next time and that the story turns a little sour, regarding his presence in blue and the relationship he will have with Deschamps Already that it was not at the top level… I think we are not going to stop at: 'You didn't come, you take a hit from the rule. fingers, you're not coming to that one' We'll see what happens in March but until then, in my opinion, there will be some lost bullets, some little words. right to left, and I think the situation could get worse.”
To the point of imagining Kylian Mbappé no longer coming to the French team as long as Didier Deschamps is on the bench? “The context is absolutely not favorable to Mbappé since his performances put him under constant fire and at Real, things are not going well at all. For the moment, he is not in a position of strength “, recalled Daniel Riolo. “Whatever happens, he is the captain of the Blues, since the armband has not yet been removed from him… But nothing excludes the possibility that there will be trouble and that perhaps there will be a declaration from like: 'Since it's like that, I'm not going to come back for the moment'”.
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