Real is at its worst. This Tuesday, November 5, the Madrid club hosted AC Milan on the occasion of the 4e day of the Champions League. On home soil, the Spanish team suffered a lesson from the Italians, losing 3 goals to 1. The Milanese were able to count on a great Mike Maignan, since the French goalkeeper, elected man of the match, pushed back all attempts by Carlo Ancelotti's players, apart from a penalty from Vinicius at the start of the match. Real Madrid therefore experienced their second defeat in C1 this season after losing against Lille on October 26.
After the match, Daniel Riolo analyzed the new Real Madrid debacle by focusing on the Kylian Mbappé case at the microphone of the After Foot. The French striker, aligned at the forefront, had another complicated evening in the Merengue jersey. For the journalist of RMCthe Frenchman must not play in a position that he does not master: “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 is not not and will never be a number 9!“
Daniel Riolo can no longer stand seeing Mbappé at the forefront with Real Madrid
For Daniel Riolo, Carlo Ancelotti, the Real Madrid coach, is forced to play Kylian Mbappé as a striker due to the presence of Vinicius on the left: “Just like everyone else is a prisoner of this thing, Ancelotti is in the same prison.“Thus, the companion recommends that Real take a radical decision with Mbappé:”I'm going to repeat the 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 are better than him at the moment since Vinicius still has the privilege of seniority and performances, so it will go on the bench because it cannot be otherwise. Because it's not a 9. A 9, you have one on the bench (Rodrygo, editor's note) and we're going to have to play him. Can Ancelotti make such a decision? Real is a big club and capable of taking such a decision but they cannot continue like this, it is obvious.“
“If they don't succeed by putting in Rodrygo, taking out Mbappé and finding some semblance of a team built in a somewhat similar way to that of last year, then that will mean that we are at the end of cycle“, continues Daniel Riolo, who believes that Real Madrid is on the downward slope. “Which wouldn't be very serious because it happens in the history of clubs. When you are full of victories, when you have won Champions Leagues until you don't know what to do with them, 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 hurt to see Barça or Liverpool better. But before arriving at this observation, Ancelotti will already have to say to himself: what am I doing? Because what I'm doing right now is something that's not normal.”
