The blow is tough for Real Madrid. At the time of crossing iron with Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup, the Merengue club probably dreamed of putting an end to the dreams of a team against which it is so often at war. In an ideal scenario, Casa Blanca surely imagined Kylian Mbappé crucify his former club, with which he is still in conflict. In short, the sources of motivation did not lack, but in the end, the Parisian European champion dictated his law. On the Madrid side, apart from Thibaut Courtois, everyone drowned. The central hinge weighed up by offering two goals at the start of the match. The midfielder was nonexistent and the ghostly attack. Xabi Alonso had chosen to align Kylian Mbappé, Vinicius Jr and the young Gonzalo Garcia, revelation of this competition. Rather than cutting in the heart, Alonso chose to leave Garcia and not upset his offensive stars. A choice he surely regrets since.
Luis Enrique gave the lesson to Mbappé
“There is no doubt about it. This is not what we expected. This is the first defeat. But the bad news for me is that we will lose more times. It's like that. We have to accept it. Tomorrow, we start a rest period, to refresh our ideas, and that will give us enough impact to start. Let's not forget, but do not let ourselves be killed too much ”said the Madrid coach when a journalist asked him if he had made a mistake by aligning such an offensive composition. Relaunched on the Mbappé-Vincius duo, Alonso this time kicked in touch. “I speak as a team and today, at times, it is sometimes good to see the mistakes and that they serve you for the future. If we repeat the same error again and again, we will not be intelligent. »» However, there is so much to say about the two leaders of the Madrid attack. Our editorial staff gave a 2.5/10 to the Brazilian and a 3 to French. Savory notes that the media will not contradict.
“He arrived surrounded by debates and doubts about his physique. And he left the field without clarifying anything. Some sporadic and desperate accelerations. And not much else. He landed in the United States with the intention of entering conversations for the Ballon d'Or. But no one talks about this debate anymore. It was not his big night … and it was never close to being ”écrit AS On Mbappé. Delighted for Luis Enrique, the Catalan media did not fail to react to the stinging defeat of the Madrid rival. And Sport took the opportunity to tackle Mbappé: “Luis Enrique proves to Mbappé who was right”. A reference to the sequence of the documentary devoted to the Spanish coach “You can't understand” Where Luis Enrique invites Mbappé to defend more to become the supreme leader of PSG. A message that the Bondynois has obviously still not listened to. Ditto at Sports World : “Luis Enrique responds to Mbappé:” You have to give an example “”. Mbappé may have won the golden shoe, its lack of participation in the collective no longer passes at all in the Spanish capital in view of the too many large missed events. The similar observation is drawn up for a ghostly vinicius JR since he lost the Ballon d'Or 2024.
«It would be necessary to show the video to Vinicius and Mbappé so that they learn.»
“Dembélé bites at the top like never before, while in Barça it was a floor lamp. It would be necessary to show the video to Vinicius and Mbappé so that they learn. Elite football is played out today by biting at the top, whatever the quality. PSG looked like a pack of hungry wolves, while the 2022 and 2024 European champion attacker duo looked with meditation the French advancing without opposition to the courteous area. It's impossible “fulminated the journalist fromASTomas Roncero, I imitated Antonio Romero. “After a debacle like that against the Luis Enrique team, it is always unfair to designate players in particular, but you have to expect good to be at their best in difficult times. And from Vinicius, we have to wait much more. The Brazilian must find a smile, but he must also run more, be more united and have a much better attitude on the ground when things do not succeed. Feeling untouchable is generally not good for someone in his profession and the Brazilian must understand that a new boss has arrived and that he will ask him much more than he gives right now ”.
It is therefore not for nothing that the whole of the Madrid press did not spare him either in his notes. “Far, far away, very far from himself. Disconnected from the game. He tries some sporadic movements, without success. If there is one thing that characterizes Vini, it is its insistence. The ability to repeat efforts, to try, without success. And against PSG, he had neither the first nor the second. A very bad performance in the World Cup. The match against Salzburg was an oasis. The rest, a desert ”wrote AS. Real Madrid players will be able to get their minds starting on vacation. But they may have a lot of vacation homework. Because Madrid will not accept a second consecutive season without a significant reaction of the two players supposed to carry the Merengue attack.
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