“He doesn’t do the right thing on the pitch”, are the reasons for the dissatisfaction between Mbappé and the supporters

Kylian Mbappé will play his last Champions League game at the Parc des Princes with PSG, on Tuesday against Borussia Dortmund (9pm), in the semi-finals. In a special climate related to his upcoming departure, but especially to his body language on the pitch.

Kylian Mbappé (age 25) bids farewell to the Parc des Princes as a Paris Saint-Germain player this week. On Tuesday, he will play his last European game as a Parisian against Borussia Dortmund (9pm, on RMC Sport 1), a few days before hosting Toulouse in Ligue 1, on Sunday (9pm, day 33). A secondary poster that he is not even sure to play given its recent use in the Championship by Luis Enrique. The wait will be enormous, however, on Tuesday before the club’s second final in the competition. Mbappé is expected to turn the corner at some point as the striker makes people cringe over his departure this summer. But not mainly, according to Florent Gautreau, journalist for After Foot at RMC Sport.

“An exceptional player who can help you win a match but doesn’t fit into the team”

“When you say you want to be at the center of the project, that you are, that you ask for guarantees, that you change the team to your image, to your needs, then that is one of the reasons,” he agrees. But according to him, the recent behavior of the 2018 world champion on the pitch focuses more on the criticism, after a weak performance in Dortmund in the first leg.

“The spell is deserved because sportingly, Mbappé is not doing the right thing.”

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“If Luis Enrique had followed his sporting logic to the end in the last game, he would have had to take Mbappé out because he couldn’t do it and didn’t play the game he needed,” continues Florent Gautreau. “Mbappé is not happy with the way he is used. Sometimes he forgets that, he decides to do the right thing and he becomes a player who fits into the collective. But most of the time he doesn’t. He is not determined to do that. and he becomes a very complicated player to deal with non-existent defensive substitutions, he pretends to replace himself, he barely cuts the passing line. I criticized Luis Enrique’s choice to bring in Kolo Muani the other day .I know why he did it with this left side that didn’t work with Nuno Mendes, he said to himself: ‘If I put Mbappé, who didn’t do the defensive work, on the left side, we can exploit other goals.

“He is an exceptional player who can win you a game at any time, but who part of the time doesn’t fit into the team.”

“Everything that Mbappé doesn’t do, he is able to do,” continues Gautreau. “I want Mbappé to grow sportingly to become a more collective player and there will not be enchantment today, but there is romantic irritation linked to his contract, but also because of what he does not do sportingly on a pitch.”

The after journalist sees that Mbappé continues with his tasks without complaining about Real Madrid, his future club, next season. He also defends the leadership of Luis Enrique. “He’s not just trying to steal him by putting him on the bench, but the change of position is saying to Mbappé, ‘you need both positions, you have to perform well in 9, especially since I can’t play with you if you’re at the top on the left if you don’t make more defensive effort, in both positions you have to get back into the game, you have to play with your back until the goal calls for the others, and if you are a winger, yes, you have to defend’ Luis Enrique wanted Mbappé to push himself to get a ball, they explained and told him: ‘you are the best player in the world but show me that if you obey two or three very simple things, you will move on, Mbappé didn’t show enough to the coach and his supporters that he could be. It’s also the body language and the way of being in these last games that seems a bit problematic to me.”