Mbappe, kick in the air
Over and over and over again. Sometimes Maignan intervenes; others – the lack of judgment of Mbappe himself. So up to eight times eight scoring chances that the French star missed in the match with Milan. Kylian has won the award for his fighting spirit, but the yellow jersey is eluding him. The Bondi guy is haunted by a cursed number. He was offside eight times in the Clasico against Barcelona and missed eight times against Milan. “At least they didn’t call it offside.”stood out for some sarcasm from France on the pages L’Equipe. Three of Kylian’s shots on Tuesday were blocked by Maignan. Another five didn’t even reach their goal. Shot in the air. And there were already three games without goals. “Mute, he has only scored one goal in the last six games,” observed another French midfielder. Le Parisian.
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The match against Milan was both a display of persistence and helplessness. He tried it as soon as the game started, with a cross kick that managed to break through the defensive tangle. Rossonerabut he lost his way. Maignan stopped him with a score of 0:1.. He also collided with his compatriot early on in the break in a real counter-attack made in style. And so again, again and again. AND The match ended the same way it began. This was the first shot of the match, his was the last with the same result: there was no goal.. “Mbappé offered a new and absurd demonstration of how uncomfortable he is as a centre-forward.”they said in L’Equipe. “Mbappe has run out of fuel. The crisis is coming for Madrid and for Kylian, who wanders in the desert, helpless in the stagnation that is still taking over his new team,” the French newspaper added.
Mbappe is the second top scorer in this Champions League before the matches played on Tuesday.with 21 tries (the same as Harry Kane), according to BeSoccer Pro and Opta. Only Haaland is more persistent than them with 22 shots. But If the Norwegian from Manchester City scored three goals, and the Englishman from Bayern – five, then the Madrid player scored only one goal.the one who scored against Stuttgart and opened the scoring on the first day. “I think the team is disappointed with him and I can understand that… We have to give him time, but at the same time he has to learn to play like a number nine and have the desire and the will to prove himself,” commented Thierry Henry. on CBS.
Mbappe is the eleventh all-time leading scorer in the European Cup with 49 goals. But You’d have to drop down to 40th in the rankings this season to find him on the top scorers list.. A list topped by Harry Kane (Bayern) and Gyökeres (Sporting), in which he is ahead of his teammates Vinicius (four goals) and Rudiger (two, which could have been three if the one he scored against Milan, was valid). Mbappe’s balance in this Champions League is 20 shots: 9 on target (45%, 1 goal), 5 away and 6 rejected by the defense..
Increase
The Champions League, a competition he failed to win in seven seasons at PSG, is his Achilles heel. Because In the league, Kylian puts up more decent numbers. He has six goalsthree of them from fines, in ten days. In the Pichichi ranking, Mbappe, although far from Lewandowski’s 14 goals, occupies fourth position.second only to the Pole and seven goals from Ayoze (Villarreal) and Rafinha (Barcelona). Of his 33 shots in the league, 23 were between three sticks, or nearly 70%.
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Although the League presents more decent numbers, His records are still far from those he made in France.. He has six goals, three of them from penalties, in ten matches. In Pichichi, although far from Lewandowski’s 14 goals, Mbappe appears in fourth position, behind only the Pole and the seven goals of Ayoze (Villarreal) and Rafinha (Barcelona).
To score these six goals in the championship, Mbappe needed 47 shots. Success rate 12.8%. Worst percentage of his career. His lowest figure to date was in his 2017-18 season at PSG, when he took 78 shots and scored 13 goals in Ligue 1, a 16.7% success rate. Since then it has never dropped below 19% and with PSG he averaged 21.6% in the French league. The percentage with which Mbappe must score at least 10 goals in the League (four more than him) and four in the Champions League (three more). At the moment, his strikes are shots in the air.
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