Daniel Riolo does not understand Carlo Ancelotti's persistence in aligning Kylian Mbappé as a center forward. According to the After Foot editorialist, this is not at all the position of the French striker which deserves to take a turn on the sidelines, according to him.
Real Madrid is sinking into crisis. Ten days after the big slap received at home against Barça (0-4) during the Clasico in La Liga, the Merengues sank again against AC Milan (1-3) in the Champions League. For Daniel Riolo, columnist on RMC, one of the major problems of the Spanish ogre lies in the positioning of Kylian Mbappé in a center forward position which is not his, according to him.
“Mbappé is not and will never be a number 9”
“You play without a center forward because – that was the case last year, that's the case in the French team and that will be the case at Real, I've been killing myself saying it for months -, Mbappé n “is not and will never be a number 9”, says Daniel Riolo. “Exactly like all the others are prisoners of this thing, Ancelotti is in the same prison. I'm going to repeat a sentence that I've repeated 150 times: Mbappé, either it's on the left, or it's on the bench . And on the left, there is better than him at the moment since Vinicius has the privilege of precedence and performances, so it will go on the bench because it cannot be otherwise. , there is one on the bench (Rodrygo, Editor's note) and we will have to play him. Can Ancelotti make such a decision? Real is a big club and capable of making such a decision, but they? can't continue like this, it's shocking.”
Daniel Riolo continues by estimating that it will be time to draw conclusions after making offensive changes in the eleven. “If they don't succeed by putting in Rodyrgo, by taking out Mbappé to find a team built in a somewhat similar way to that of last year, that will then mean that we are at the end of the cycle,” he explains. “Which would not be extremely serious because it happens in the history of clubs. When you are full of victories, when you have won so many Champions Leagues, all these players have had so much success, it happens to be supplanted by others who have the right to work well It won't be a bad thing to see Barça or Liverpool better But before arriving at this conclusion, Ancelotti will have to say to himself: what is it. What am I doing? Because he's doing unusual things at the moment.”
With this second defeat in four matches in the Champions League (after that in Lille, 1-0), Real Madrid, defending champion and holder of the record for victories in the competition (15), is only in 17th place in the standings. .
