Kylian Mbappé (26 years old) was chosen by Real Madrid this Tuesday to answer questions from the press at Ciudad Real Madrid in Valdebebas, before the Champions League match between the Spanish club and RB Salzburg.
The match against RB Salzburg : “I feel good, I’ve been in good shape for about a month, I try to help the team on a daily basis.”
Critics : “When you’re a player like me, with everything that was expected of me, it’s normal for people to talk when I play badly. You always have to stay calm about your game and what you need to improve. The situation has changed and I am happy.”
How did he experience the complicated months : “It was hard, because I’m a player who always wants to do more and when you don’t do it, it’s normal that it affects you. But I knew this moment was coming and, in the end, It happened.”
More complicated months: “The problem was more mental. I think I was fine physically, but I thought I had to do more. That’s when I told myself that I had to change, that I couldn’t not come to Madrid and play badly”.
Real Madrid, a dream: “I’m living a dream. Spanish culture is different from French culture, I’m enjoying my life right now.”
-The pressure at Real Madrid: “I need the pressure, to feel that I have to do more. People whistled at the team against Celta, but that’s normal at a club like Madrid. Our goal is to play well, to win and to make madridistas happy.
Its adaptation time: “I thought a lot. Way too much. How to do this, how to move… and when you think that much, you don’t play well. My goal is always to play my best game. If I was shy during the first months? You have to arrive at Real Madrid with humility, the word “shy” is not appropriate in my opinion. It is normal that with time, I play better and that I have more importance. But you can’t. arrive at Real Madrid and tell your teammates “pass me the ball, I’m the boss. It doesn’t work like that in a club like this. Reach 40 goals? I don’t set a limit for myself. The objective is to score at every opportunity.”
The French team: “With the national team there is no problem. France (the media world) is like that and I can’t change what happens there. I can’t wait to come back in March, my love for the national team has not changed, but for now I only think about Madrid. I think about playing my best football here.
What state was the locker room in after the Clásico: “It had been a very sad week, but we knew we had to do better. We were aware that it was a very bad game, but we had to change our mentality quickly and that’s what we did in both last matches”.
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