Is Kylian Mbappe the problem? Holders Real Madrid face exit as old club PSG become Champions League favourites | Football News

Paris Saint -Germain had a lobby against Aston Villa, but they passed a difficult examination and Luis Enrique believed that they would be stronger. They remain the favorite candidates to win the Champions League. More to you, Kylian Mbappe.

With PSG in a good position to become the first French team in more than 30 years to raise the cup, this is the embarrassing time for MBAPE. He risks that the man who joined the current European Champions only to discover that he will leave the upcoming European champions.

Sufficiently badly, but worse when there is a lot of argument that the transformation of power from Madrid to Paris has been partially facilitated by moving in the opposite direction. Just a return to age by Real Madrid against Arsenal that would change the narration.

Even in losing 3-2 to Villa at night, enough to advance 5-4 in a total, Paris Saint-Germain explained the reason for the opposition leader John McGin classifying them as the best team he faced ever. Excellent technically and packed with a pace, it is punished in different ways.

“Of course, we are a team attacking well against a low block,” Luis Enrique said after that. “But we are better when there is space.” Two goals came in the counter -attack. But teamwork also stands out, and adheres to it amid the attack.

The story of a team has lost the best player in the world but found something in this process. For Luis Enrique, it is justification. He not only thought he could improve Paris Saint -Germain as soon as Mbappe left, he was exactly that he told this.

“I was very brave last season when I told you that we have a better team in attack and defense,” said former Barcelona coach. “I still think we are better in attack and defense, and the numbers are present to say that. The players took it as a challenge.”

PSG has already created great opportunities in Ligue 1 more than any of the previous five seasons – with six games that will still go. “I told you that instead of having a player scoring 40 goals, I wanted all players to score a lot.” This is what happened.

Osman Dembele, top scorer in the league only last season, has 21 in the competition this time and 29 in general. Bradley Parkula was weighing 16, and the desire of the eight record. In MoneyBall terms, replace MBAPE in total.

But whenever the most harmful message he sends from the MBAPE perspective is what can be achieved when everyone puts a defensive as well. The point where Luis Enrique worked last season – most of them were captured in documentary footage.

“You have to mean this example first as a person and a player to go to pressure,” said Paris Saint Saint -Gearde coach, asking MBAPE to assume his defensive responsibilities seriously, in an attempt to persuade him to confirm that Michael Jordan did so in basketball.

“It follows again so quickly,” Luis Enrique continued. He said: “Why? To be a leader. Because you think you just have to score goals. Of course, you are a global phenomenon, a first -class player – there is no doubt that, but this does not work for me.”

He added, before summarizing him: “If you are not able to help us in the goals … you help us in everything related to defensive tasks.”

Luis Enrique has that now. This was well clarified when you follow a sound again to close the villa break during the first leg in Paris. In the game in Villa Park, there was some defense of the wall, but there was also a lot of defense from the introduction.

MBAPPE didn’t really realize it. Perhaps he achieved a lot that was convinced of the need. It is understood when you have pushed Monaco to the title in 18 years, won the World Cup while still a teenager and then scored a trilogy in the next final.

It is supposed, however, winning the Champions League – and Ballon d’or that can accompany him – is something that MBAPPE is keen. One of the reasons for joining the European Champions was 15 times. Now it’s the issue of doing this already.

For Carlo Ancelotti, the problem of the first world in the first world is that the mbappe has been imposed on it, but this is a coach who made a profession to make the parts appropriate. However, change and switching in the team that just won the Champions League is a management test.

MBAPPE itself is smart enough to estimate complications. “I changed my arrival many things in the team.” He was asked to play more centrally although he is not a natural player to return to the goal, he prefers to occupy the positions of Vinicius Junior.

This may be the Brazilian who is asked to move forward in the end, but in the meantime, Ancelotti is trying to accommodate the MBAPE team for the last season with MBAPPE. This means that Jude Bellingham is moving deeper, and Rodrigo has also seized.

Against Arsenal, unlike the contestants wishing to Paris Saint -Germain, Madrid was carrying two passengers and cost them. The first two goals came from a free kick in Diklan Rice, but attempts to explain the result are not convincing.

Madrid knows that it is easier to play against it now. What seemed to be a candy last season, as Pelingham played between Vinicius and Rodrigo, now he looks like a relative template for success, after he won them in the Champions League and regained Laja.

The team that won the cup in Wembley in June compared one to hit well from Arsenal on the other side of northern London. In simplified phrases, MBAPE came to Danny Carvagal while others, including Fedi Valverde, had to return.

He left them weak. MBAPPE did not score goals, many of them. There are some signs of understanding with Bellingham. If you click on it, it may be beautiful, but there are no guarantees. However, because this Madrid, belief in a possible return continues.

If this feels imagination, it is more like an urgent need. His horror in the match against Alaves at the weekend, which was expelled for him, indicates that the player who used to bend to his will is to feel pressure to surrender.

16 years have passed since Zlatan Ibrahimovic Inter was left for his signature with Barcelona, ​​then the ruling European Champions, only for Italian beating not only expels them, but continues to win it themselves. Now, MBAPPE is just scrambling to make a date for reunification.