After hesitant beginnings, Mbappé is launched like a ball with in particular 14 goals scored in his last 13 Liga matches and here he came back to a length from Robert Lewandowski in the Pichichi race. “”He made a big match“, reacted Carlo Ancelotti who knows what he owes him. To three days from the end, the observation is clear. No, Kylian Mbappé did not miss his first season with Madrid, no Frenchman had scored so many goals for his first season in one of the four major foreign championships (24). He is only in a goal all competitions by Ivan Zamorano (37) For his first season with Real Madrid.
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Figures that don’t say everything
Cristiano Ronaldo is already in the mirror (33 goals) but the figures do not say everything. During his first season in Madrid, the Portuguese had only played 35 games, Mbappé has just spent the 51 mark. The real problem is that the Real season is missed and that after a coronation in the Champions League last year, it is necessarily the newcomer, Mbappé therefore, that Real supporters tend to hit. On April 21, against Athletic Bilbao, it was he that the Bernabeu whistled while his face appeared on the giant stadium screens.
Unfair? Yes with regard to his contribution in the Real season. But by dissecting the French season, beyond figures and records, there remains a real black point: his inability to weigh in the matches that matter. Apart from his essential hat -trick against Manchester City, he disappeared when the Real season was playing. Mbappé did not score a goal or distributed a decisive pass during the 375 minutes played against Atlético de Madrid then Arsenal in the 8th and quarter -final of the Champions League.
Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009 with Real Madrid.
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Another capital shooting window
Against Barça, in the first leg in the liga, he missed immense opportunities (0-4), at a time, it is true, where he was bad in his sneakers. And if he marked against the Catalans in the finroll final and the king’s cup, he could not prevent the sinking. He has a small space to close the first chapter of his Madrid career on a conquest. Real is four points behind the Barcelona leader. But next week, Mbappé and the Madrid move to Montjuic. A victory in Catalonia and the hope will remain allowed to blow the Burzzer the title of champion.
This last shock of the season will give the final color of the Real season and, therefore, that of Mbappé. “At this level, he will be decisive in Barcelona,” promised Carlo Ancelotti this Sunday. The captain of the Blues knows what he has to do to, beyond the goals, make his first season a real success.
