Real Madrid went into the national team break relieved by Saturday’s victory against Osasuna, but with all the focus once again on Kylian Mbpapé, who added his fourth game without scoring, something unusual in the Frenchman’s career since he was a great star at PSG. At the white club the motto is to be calm with him and the case of Zinédine Zidane is remembered, who was also slow to connect with Real Madrid and in his first three months at the Bernabéu he was even more criticized than Mbappé.
But the force of the facts prevails and it is in vogue every day in Madrid forums. After seven years of waiting, Florentino Pérez signed what was considered the best player in the world in the summer and for now Mbapé’s performance is far from the expectations generated.
The goal obsession
The striker has 51 shots on goal
We are talking more than anything about sensations because Mbappé’s statistics are not particularly bad. In 16 games in which he has played 1,327 minutes, he has scored eight goals and given two assists. However, analyzed in more detail, it is clear that for his eight goals he has needed no less than 51 shots, a figure that gives an idea of both his obsession with scoring and his lack of success in front of goal.
The reality for both the club and the fans is that Vinícius is the star of the team right now, far ahead of Mbappé. Something that the Frenchman was very far from suspecting in the summer. Several factors contribute to this impression. Ancelotti has given the left wing to the Brazilian (the position that Mbappé coveted) and he does not allow any discussion there. Mbappé has to play as a center forward, where he does not seem comfortable. At PSG he more openly denied having to play as a nine. Here he has only spoken after the games in which everything has gone well and he has scored.
Vinícus’s hat trick against Osasuna
Mbappé made Vinícius ugly because he did not pass the fourth goal
In Saturday’s game against Osasuna, Mbappé looked especially desperate, with unusual gestural language, raising his arms as a sign of reproach to his teammates when they didn’t see him or his dribbling wasn’t working, or protesting decisions to the referee. . The Frenchman made a disdainful gesture towards Vinícius when he scored his last goal and did not pass the ball to him even though the Brazilian had already scored twice. After the game, he ran to the locker room while his teammates celebrated the win with the crowd.
Mbappé has not scored since October 19 against Celta in Balaídos. Last Saturday he came from two disastrous matches: the classic, in which he was repeatedly offside, and the Milan match, in which he lost several one-on-one shots to Maignan’s body. He seemed mentally blocked.
Criticism from France
Deschamps has not called him up because the player was deleted from the last list
The situation with France does not help Mpappé either. The coach, Didier Deschamps, has not included him in this call, possibly as punishment for having been deleted from the previous one with excuses that no one in France understood. To make matters worse, at that time they linked him to a rape case investigated by the Stockholm prosecutor’s office.
After the match against Osasuna Mbappé spent two days on vacation in Paris. On social networks it has been seen that he was with two former teammates at PSG: Achraf and Arnau Tenas. Yesterday he was seen training in Valdebebas with his five teammates who are healthy and have not been called up for their respective teams.
These are not good times for Mbappé. Madrid sources see him as strong mentally, “but all this affects, of course,” they say
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