Kylian Mbappé scored again after 36 days without marking with the real Madrid and after not being called up with the France team on the last FIFA date, in which The Gauls took the lead in their group from Italy and advanced with honors to the quarterfinals.
It seems that The break suited Mbappé wellwho dedicated himself to training and focusing on his club, something that his coach Carlo Ancelotti had already anticipated since yesterday, hours before the duel in which Madrid won 0-3 at Leganes in LaLiga.
“Mbappé has improved his condition and hopefully against Leganés he can show all his qualities, which are many. All the great forwards have gone through the bad streak. But I see Mbappé motivated and happy to train, be with his teammates… the streak is going to end sooner or later and I am convinced that tomorrow the streak of not scoring goals will end. He has enormous quality and sooner or later he will show it,” he said at the pre-match press conference.
And it seems that Ancelotti had up his sleeve the ace of moving Kylian Mbappé to the left side of the offensive with the consequent presence of Vinícius Jr. thrown to the center. And it worked for him.
That option of finally showing yourself in your natural habitat Aroused the voracity of the Frenchman, who set his side on fire from the initial whistle and found the goal after ten minutes after a first through pass from Vinícius. However, The goal was disallowed for offside. another one on the white ‘9’ list, the one who falls the most in an anti-regulatory position in LaLiga.
A similar situation, in the other area, was experienced by Munir El Haddadi, whose shot was later invalidated and ended up crashing against the crossbar. The Spanish-Moroccan, who was assumed to be an extreme starting point, was placed up front along with Miguel de la Fuente. Behind, a line of four in which Darko Brasanac and Juan Cruz fell to the sides, the latter more dangerous when they moved him from the left to the right.
The ‘Lega’ did little else in front of Thibaut Courtois’ goal. This lack of threat allowed Real Madrid to go for the goal without fear, benefiting from their rival’s mistakes. One, from Yvan Neyou, conceded a counterattack started by Vinícius, who stood in the area and could not complete a pass that could have been fatal if Sergio González had not touched it. He did not forgive the second person who was similar.
That time the rude ruling was made by Adrià Altimira. The right back of the blue and white team seemed too comfortable driving the ball along the edge of the area towards the crescent and, before he realized it, he had entered a cave from which he could no longer get out.
Eduardo Camavinga’s good pressure guided him towards the area where Jude Bellingham was, who scored the ball from him. This ended up falling at the feet of Vinícuis, who, after avoiding the entrance of Sergio González, only had to raise his head to give the goal to Mbappé on the stroke of half-time.
Nothing changed after passing through the locker room, with a Leganés team that couldn’t find a way to do damage and a visiting team in which Arda Güler acted as a metronome. The Turk, who cries out for more minutes, is currently doing everything he can with what he has.
In the first half he left a video game impact on Yvan Neyou and drove the defense crazy in an individual action in the right zone which he continued with a great shot deflected by Marko Dmitrovic, the same one who well placed cleared a powerful shot from lack of the Turk shortly after.
That foul did not enter, but there was another one twenty minutes into the second half for the Madrid side to decide. In reality, more than a foul it was a ‘déjà vu’ of an episode that occurred three months ago, on August 25, at the Santiago Bernabéu against Valladolid.
That day Güler, Endrick and Valverde lined up to execute a direct free kick at the left corner of the area. The Ottoman touched the ball, the Brazilian stopped it and Valverde hit it low and hard at the opposite post to score the goal. this sundayor Dani Ceballos started the action, Güler left the ball dead and the Uruguayan’s shot from the same spot entered the first post. In both cases, a great goal
With everything already in place, the rest was a pleasure trip until the ninety minute along the highway that enabled a local team that sought to close the gap despite the fact that it was neither there nor expected. The runs after behind-the-back balls shined, like one from Mbappé, who couldn’t beat Dmitrovic one-on-one.
Less showy, but more effective, was the situation that gave rise to the Final 0-3, the work of Jude Bellingham after heading at will a ball rejected by the crossbar after a shot by Brahim Díaz that tripped over a defender. It was the icing on the cake to a solid and convincing victory, one that the white team needs to move towards its best version.
*With information from EFE.
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