The Spanish sports press, especially Madrid, has already been in love with Kylian Mbappé for a long time.
The hat-trick scored by the Frenchman on Tuesday night at Camp Nou in Barcelona, which earned him a score of 10 by our journalists, turned this love into an obsession.
This Wednesday morning, the PSG striker occupies the headlines of the country's four sports dailies.
While yesterday, he still shared the poster with Lionel Messi ... As on the ground Tuesday, Mbappé is now alone.
A “genius” for Marca, “Spectacular” for Sport, “hurricane” for AS…
"Mbappé breaks Barça" for Marca, "Mbappé crushes Barça" for Sport, "Hurricane Mbappé" at AS, pun for Mundo Deportivo ... @KMbappe is everywhere this morning in Barcelona #FCBPSG pic.twitter.com/ xHuQcEufb8
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In his pages, Marca believes that Mbappé “crowned himself” for his first visit to Camp Nou, “liquefying” Barça's defense.
"This performance enhances him even more while Real Madrid is still courting him," adds the daily.
The transfer market is never far away with this Spanish press.
"His superiority was insolent," Marca concludes about the Frenchman, awarding him the score of 3 stars, the maximum, as to Marco Verratti elsewhere.
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"Mbappé reigns over the ruins of Barça", AS headlines in its first pages.
"He was galactic, colossal", "touched by the grace of the gods during the most opportune match" ... There is no shortage of superlatives about Mbappé, who plunges Barça "towards a new disaster" in the Champions League.
“Destroyed by Mbappé”, writes Mundo Deportivo for his part.
“It had been a long time since an opponent had experienced this performance at Camp Nou.
With the public, it is certain that he would have been applauded, ”adds the Catalan daily.
"Too much football for Barça"
This Wednesday, no one speaks of the "remount", a memory now very distant for Barça, which "plunges again" after the recent good series of results.
“Barça were a bulldog and turned into a lamb.
The rivals are no longer afraid, ”said Sport.
"The PSG plunges it into a reality bath," adds the journalist Lluis Mascaro in his editorial of the day.
“Too much football for Barça,” wrote Mundo Deportivo.
"The return of Pique has not changed the defense, which continues to take water", we always read among the Catalans.
Barça “forces themselves” to two lifts, writes Marca.
One in the Copa del Rey semi-final against Sevilla after a 2-0 defeat.
Another now against PSG in the Champions League.
The return matches will take place on March 3 (against Sevilla) and March 10 (against PSG).
But even the Catalan press does not have the heart to believe it.
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