Has the +++ annoyance of the Spanish press after the episode of the eight offside positions during the disastrous Clasico (0-4) just shifted this Thursday morning into sincere concern regarding Kylian Mbappé? In any case, this is the impression that emerges when we carry out a press review on the other side of the Pyrenees on the new hiccup of Real Madrid, once again overtaken in the Champions League, Wednesday at Liverpool (2-0) .
Unable to make the slightest difference, author of a penalty too soft to deceive Caoimhin Kelleher and equalize (1-0 in the 61st), and mocked on social networks after two shocks against Virgil Van Dijk (17th) and Conor Bradley ( 32nd) where he was shattered like an U15 discovering the professional world, number 9 Merengue experienced an extremely dark evening.
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“He’s not even a shadow of the player he once was”
If it is he who appears on the front page of every Spanish sports daily to illustrate the fiasco of a Real 24th in this first new-look phase of C1, especially in the absence of the injured Vinicius Jr, Kylian Mbappé is not cut as one could have imagined by the Iberian press. The flagship title of the main media uses various expressions such as “Raw reality” (Mark), “Tumble” (AS), “Sunk” (Sport) or “The Mbappé coup” (Sports World). Within these daily newspapers, it is interesting to note that the psychological dimension is omnipresent.
An editorialist from Mark indicates thus: “We can speculate on the fact that these are not sporting but emotional reasons. The fact is that Kylian Mbappé today is not even a shadow of the player he has been in recent years. The crisis of confidence from which he suffers devours him to the point of making him an unrecognizable footballer.”
“The Real Madrid jersey weighs heavy”
This idea of the “unrecognizable footballer”, which could be extended to his second part of the season at PSG and his Euro 2024, as soon as the toughest opponents presented themselves (Dortmund, the Spanish selection, Barça, AC Milan, Liverpool…), is shared by Guti.
Our file on Kylian Mbappé
On the set of the inimitable show The Chiringuitothe former player of a galactic Real Madrid followed in the footsteps of what Thierry Henry recently confided: “He is not up to the task but that is normal, the Real jersey weighs heavy”. On the Anfield lawn on Wednesday, and in view of its body language amorphous, we even had the feeling that Kylian Mbappé had to carry the 15 big-eared Madrid cups on his back every time he tried to outrun the amazing Conor Bradley.
