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bpp’s life at the moment of course missing the penalty as Real Madrid would lose their first away game of the season Athletic Club winning by two goals to one uh sidlo uh back with us pitch side now as we reflect on what happens Sid uh what’s interesting and you’ve heard all the talk afterwards is it the same old story kilan bappe is looking great in training it’ll be fine he’ll find his form soon blah blah blah well Ken mbappe himself was putting Instagram message out I mean it would be nice to actually hear from him rather than just just an Instagram message saying that this is a moment for him to demonstrate who he really is and I guess that’s kind of the question um and I don’t really want to push it that far but that is being asked in Spain whether there is something bigger happening whether there is something really wrong now I personally would argue that his performances haven’t always been as bad as people have sometimes made out the number of goals he scored is is really not that bad of a return but there are a lot of chances Miss of course it’s two penalties in a row and it’s not just that if you look at the the game against KF at the weekend and this has been the focal point of all the talk in the build up to this game there’s a penalty which mbappe doesn’t want an chelotti yesterday was talking about this being an act of self selflessness an act of generosity to his teammates of altruism to say no you take it I don’t want to take it you take it but I think what most people are looking at it and interpreting it as is this is a guy that despite the fact he killing mbappe despite the fact that someone who scored in two World Cup finals that scored a hatrick in the last World Cup final this is a guy who at the moment appears to be really feeling the pressure and isn’t performing at anything like the level that was expected of him now it’s true that those expectations were really really high but it’s a problem and it’s a problem that Real Madrid need to try and find a solution to so angelotti must have been asked why it was mbappe that took the penalty soon well tonight yes because because he the answer to that is the same as the answer he gave at the weekend the same as the answer he gave yesterday which the players decide between themselves and I’m happy for the players to decide between themselves and so that’s what happens um obviously look anel I mean this isn’t the first time by the way that Andrew had questions about who takes penalties I I can remember two or three occasions in in the in how many ever year how many years it is he’s been in charge of RA Madrid this time around four years and I think and two the first time around and he’s always said it’s down to them he’s never been a manager who’s defined a penalty taker who’s he’s always allowed it to be them who decide depending on how they feel of course what he now has to ask and what everybody’s asking is how does mbappe feel is he in a position where where kind of emotionally or or in terms of whether it’s motivation or confidence there is something wrong I heard you and Ali and Lis talking and I agree with said I think this is I think he’s I think he’s currently sort of drowning in the pressure of being at Real Madrid and not playing well in a side that’s not functioning particularly well but I heard you talking about getting his confidence up by giving him the penalty we’re not in the business of getting his confidence up he’s got to do that for himself we’re in a business of getting results and you may have noticed that Real Madrid they’re not out the title race of course they’re not but they’re struggling to get results they’re sort of falling over the line or faltering and you don’t give a penalty kick to a guy who’s low in confidence you just you just don’t you give it to the guy who’s puffing his chest out and who wants to take it let’s be honest he clearly wanted to take it doesn’t want to take it he did he wanted to take it cuz if he didn’t want to take it they didn’t have to take it it’s not as if he the manager I don’t think he want well has has conviction in his strike was telling me he didn’t want to take it he wanted the goal right okay he wanted the goal right to say oh there’s my stats I’ve got another goal but deep down I think he would have rather somebody else had that pressure on their shoulders and slaughtered the penalty away at the end of the day it’s about getting results it’s not it’s not about feeling sorry for one of your teammates you do that behind the closed doors you go in the dress room you put an arm around them you know we’re on the pitch it’s it’s a multi-billion Dollar business there’s Millions watching around the world uh and he’s struggling he’s absolutely struggling and maybe angelot is going to have to take I know said said it’s not it’s nothing it’s he hasn’t done it during his career maybe he has to start maybe he has to take ownership of it and say right okay you’re struggling at the moment you go just you go concentrate on your game you just concentrate on on your game let somebody else take the penalties free kicks let them take the pressure but I I I I I don’t think he realized maybe he did what the velocity of the pressure that will come at this club when things are not going to plan and Barcelona know top of the league yeah exactly of course Barcelona turning around the last 48 hours said this was another one of those flat bang average even you could say poor performances from Real Madrid that we’ve seen far too often this season yeah I mean just very briefly to pick up on what Craig saying as well in terms of the penalty of course the context of this is the fact that mbappe had turned down the chance to take a penalty the weekend and then there’s been lots of noise since then so I wonder if there’s an extra element there which is of course when the penalty happens this time around even if he doesn’t want it is he thinking I can’t say no again I already said No at the weekend and I got murdered for it I can’t say no again to pick up your question about Real Madrid yes it is a kind of performance we’ve seen before funnily enough I actually the feeling in the ground I think when Madrid equalized was exactly that this is the kind of performance we’ve seen before and Madrid are going to go and win 2-1 now because we’ve seen that happen as well haven’t we not play particularly well find their way into the game almost out of nowhere we should probably point out this this point in terms of being fair to mbappe the goal comes because of his shot he’s the one that creates effectively creates it with that with that effort on On Target and then at that point you think Madrid are going to get away with this and I think what happened for the to not get away with it was really just a an application of justice and I think that underlines what you’re saying this wasn’t a good performance if you look at the I mean Craig was talking about the the Midfield in the in the English Premier League teams if you look at the Real Madrid Midfield tonight and I don’t know how this looked to you on the on on the TV but being being down by the side of the pitch it was really really noticeable to me how weak that Midfield was you’ve got four men across Midfield and it felt to me like you had chman who when he won the ball with the and gave it away again M they couldn’t bring the ball out from the back the other deep midfielder who was Theos in the first and then of course he got replaced later on Theos who is the one guy in that Midfield who in theory is a central midfielder of pass of judging the pace of the game of speeding up slowing it down reading the game he wasn’t able to get into the game at all you had fedy Valverde partly playing on well playing on the right of Midfield but effectively playing as a backup to the fullback to try and protect them against the the the attack from Williams and then you had Jud Bellingham it felt really clear this to me in terms of the frustration Jude Bellingham trying to do the work of everyone and being all over the pitch and I think in terms of his generosity in terms of his attitude you could not criticize him at all in terms of where he is on the pitch and how actually effective that is maybe you could but that’s because of there was an all round malfunctioning Midfield which just never really got hold of the game at any point tonight but but you know going back to the sorry for doing this but going back to the mbappe said it feels like we’re looking for a needle in a ha stack in terms of what he’s done well you know we’re we’re searching for something within a game that you said well he did you know he did this or he did you know we’re actually searching for things that that he that he’s done well within the game whereas yeah we should be really eulogizing about him we should be sitting back going wow look at me he’s caused all these problems again tonight but we’re having to as I say look for that needle in a Hast that well what what did he do did he do something well tonight or not he’s not not he’s not terrorizing these defenses in Spain like he was in France or or even when he’s playing for France he he’s just he looks just so off color and as you said maybe there’s a lot of other stuff going on off the field and but the pressure but how how the hell does he regain his confidence playing like this well I mean from a from a Spanish point of view at least and the way that it’s been talked about here and and watching him play there’s a whole load of things I I think In fairness I think if we looked at the way he played more or less up to the Classico I thought you would look at it and say okay it hasn’t been the very very highest level the kind of expectations we’ve had of him but he’s been okay and his goal scoring return is pretty good and venicius I think had only overtaken him in goals in the last week or maybe two weeks before the Classico then he has the Classico where of course he gets caught offside eight times and there’s the pressure on him and that sense that he got caught offside and he’s missing chances and it’s not quite happening and those things that we assumed he could do even if nothing else was working finish his chances not happening that explosive Pace to get away from people not really happening we expected maybe some difficulties in terms of fitting in with the team we expected maybe some difficulties in terms of the nature of the football being slightly different but even those things that we thought he could do we’re not seeing very much of now as I say I’m relatively defensive of him in the in the sense that I think what happens is and this plays into this idea the pressure that we go over the top in both the the positive things and the negative things around Real Madrid all the time and that happens a lot in Spain I think with mbapp it’s the the sort of the the the the Pyon with him certainly until the last two or three weeks I would have said felt a little bit over the top to me but now you are watching him and thinking I wonder yeah I wonder if there is something deeper here that we’re not quite getting at and I’ve got French colleagues here by the way who and and look I can’t judge this because I didn’t see anything like enough of him at PSG who even in the summer even before all this happened and who now of course are repeating it were saying to me this summer you know he’s not the player that he was and he hasn’t been for quite a long time and I I had conversation with one of them a couple of days ago he said look honestly it’s 18 months now that we haven’t seen a good killing mbappe and that does make you worry that maybe this isn’t about Real Madrid maybe this isn’t just about the pressure although the pressure obviously is building maybe it’s not about the club or the new environment maybe it is something bigger and the real fear of course would be something that’s not temporary 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