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PSG-Montpellier: give us back the real Kylian Mbappé!

2021-01-21T17:34:28.247Z


The world champion has never scored since Mauricio Pochettino took control of PSG in January. Is his slump the s


Despite everything, Kylian Mbappé remains the top scorer in the French Championship with twelve goals.

If he crossed the first leg against Montpellier in early December the bar of one hundred goals under the colors of PSG, the world champion has not scored anything in 2021.

Mauricio Pochettino, in person or from a distance, has not yet seen him show his joy, the 7 goals of the era of the new coach not counting the Bondynois.

Moreover, of joy, there are few around Mbappé at the moment.

He did not post anything on social networks after the victory in the Champions Trophy against OM, nothing since Brest itself, and he was particularly upset when he was replaced last Saturday in Angers by Pablo Sarabia (80th).

“Against Angers, there was a bit of frustration not to score.

He is 22 years old, these are situations that happen, ”commented this week the PSG coach on Spanish radio.

A game without flavor

Mbappé no longer creates many individual differences.

He no longer passes the defenders of Saint-Etienne, Brest or Angers, one against one, with the key to any performance that he does not make up with a goal of plunder.

He sometimes stubbornly persists in impossible initiatives or works in a more obscure way to open up spaces like in Maine-et-Loire with relative success.

His performances remain frustrating to observe, clearly below their usual value, not in line with the expectations he aroused, undoubtedly annoying for him.

San's lack of confidence is sweating.

This Thursday, Jesus Perez, one of Pochettino's assistants, continued the hugs while making a wish: “Kylian is very important to us.

All players can do better.

He has trained very, very well all week and we hope he will show it against Montpellier ”this Friday evening.

Rain of reproaches

As a result, Mbappé has suffered a slew of criticisms for a few weeks, which provide information on his weight in football and French society (19th favorite personality according to the latest JDD ranking).

We hear that he no longer deserves his place at PSG, we evoke a player who "regresses", a "Neymarization" of his game in the dark aspect of the Brazilian (playing it personally), we stigmatize an attacker who would be bloated by his ego.

The ferocity of judgments seems to be the boomerang of former praise, the words "prodigy", "crack", "French genius" escorting his media footsteps from the start.

He is silent but thinks none the less, hurt and stirred by this new wave.

His father cracked an outing, something rather rare among his inner circle, in December on TF1: “The performances are a little worse but they are not what people want us to believe.

If we're going to worry about players of Kylian's caliber, we're going to worry about a lot of players.

“Intervened at the start of her son's sporting crisis, she was unable to stem the tide of reproaches.

The most important decision of his life

This is not the first time the striker has gone through a hollow.

But in its upward curve, this is its first slowdown this long.

His entourage did not activate any of his usual relays to explain what is really going on.

At the club, optimism remains, the witnesses of the camp of the Lodges recalling the quality of its training, that the situation will not go on forever, that the exaggeration would have won the comments about an exceptional player.

PSG do not forget either that the time has come for the renegotiation of the former Monegasque's contract, bought 180 million euros in 2017.

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The question of his future would also constitute the Gordian knot in his passage to a vacuum.

Stay?

Go?

Who will be the team for the next five years?

The eternal Real Madrid?

Still Liverpool?

Maybe Manchester City with Guardiola?

PSG with Neymar of course?

Each solution has its drawback, making the choice difficult.

There is no or less evidence since the pandemic created abysmal financial chasms and made positions uncertain.

Every power trembles.

In the meantime, Mbappé is impatient to find his.

Source: leparis

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