Real Madrid brought their league phase campaign to a disappointing end on Wednesday, as they lost 4-2 to Benfica in Lisbon. That result meant they fell into the Champions League play-off round for the second in a row, much to their disappointment.
After the match, star striker Kylian Mbappe was very unhappy at the defeat. As per Marca, he spoke in the mix zone about the poor performance, as well as explaining why he thinks Real Madrid have been below their best this season.
“I have no clear explanation. We don’t have continuity in the game, it’s a problem that we have to solve. We can’t be there every other day, this is not a champion team. It hurts a bit because we wanted to have February to improve, but we deserve the position we are in.
“We played terrible… Then losing 3-2, the fourth goal doesn’t change anything, it’s a bit embarrassing, but it doesn’t change anything. Last week we played good games, but not now and we have to have continuity. We lack a little bit of everything. I’m not going to say that it’s just a problem of attitude or only of football, I think it’s a general issue and in the Champions League every detail is important. If you don’t come with everything to win a game…”
Mbappe issues rallying cry to Real Madrid supporters
Real Madrid return to La Liga action on Sunday with a home match against Rayo Vallecano, and Mbappe wants those in attendance to be on the players’ side.
“I ask the Bernabeu to go with the desire to support the team. We are not eliminated and in La Liga we are in a good dynamic. If the Bernabeu is with us we will play a good game on Sunday.”
Mbappe is right on target. The mid and offense including all 3 midfielders and 2/3 forwards are terrible. I really believe the main problem in number 14, Asencio. None of them deserves to be in an RM shirt. Shame on Perez for letting Endrick go. He is far better than Franco by a mile. Blame everything on Perez and be done with it. The goals scored against us were embarrassing. With such an attitude, how are they going to win the next round, they will be trophyless, thanks to Perez and a bunch of idiots put together who don’t deserve to wear the shirt. The last goal is well beyond embarrassing. The RM mindset was that they would win so why try? Jude is making the team worse with stupid dribbling and Arda is no different along with Rodrygo. Why are they even wearing an RM shirt???????
“I ask the Bernabeu to go with the desire to support the team. We are not eliminated and in La Liga, we are in a good dynamic. If the Bernabeu is with us, we will play a good game on Sunday.”
I’ll be curious to see if the fans whistle down the team on Sunday.
It absolutely makes no difference how home-field advantage. This team is not even close to being a championship club. So, forget about this season, change mgmt, and let Perez go to Hawaii and let a better coach come in with the right players who won’t accept defeat and a defense excluding Asencio, Dean, and all of them, and rebuild the team. Let Vini Mini go to Saudi Arabia. He has passed his prime. Shameful.
Madrid need to sell Vini Jnr, make sure they appoint a coach who is discipline and all the problems will be solved
Mbape is a cursed player and has brought that bad luck to Real Madrid. Shame
Mbape is the best in the club right now.
His team members are wicked they don’t want him to win a trophy with the club. Mbape will win the most important trophy for himself. You like it or not
Hmmmm. So having useless Vini Mini and Arda are the answer. You have a weird ideology. Shameful.
RM players are fully jealous of Mbappe success though the proper position is left wing in place of Vini Mini. Vini is cancer on RM team. Plus RM defense and midfield are worst players ever wearing RM shirts. I also blame idiot Perez for signing sissy Dean vs someone with great strength in CB. Other teams will eat RM alive. Even Benefica will win first game big enough and not allowing RM home game to become even relevant.
Now think of any miracle beating Benefica, they have zero chance against next round team and won’t make it pass current round coming up.