He’s going to have to get used to it: if the French press hasn’t always been kind to him, his Spanish counterpart won’t forgive him for anything either. Silent and disappointed for his very first match in La Liga, where his Real Madrid conceded a 1-1 draw against Mallorca, Kylian Mbappé is, this morning, on the front page of the Iberian newspapers, the symbol of this first galactic misstep of the season.
Just a few days after having unblocked his counter in the European Super Cup against Atalanta, praised by the press at the time, the captain of the Blues, this time, remained silent in a match where Real failed, and he can even be considered guilty on the equalizer of Muriqi. “The return to earth”, headlines the main sports daily of Madrid and the country, Marca. “Mbappé did not shine for his debut in the championship”, adds the daily.
As, the second Madrid headline, shows the Frenchman’s crestfallen face with the title “Pinchazo”… “The flat”. In the pages of his site, we can also read that “the Mbappé era in La Liga is starting off wrong”.
The other Spanish dailies have also, of course, commented on this first misstep. “Galactic fall for the first time”, mentions “Sport” on the front page of its newspaper mainly focused on Barça, and the Ilkay Gündogan case. Mundo Deportivo, for its part, did not hesitate to devote its front page to the “white disappointment” and the “uninteresting first time of Mbappé”.
On television too, Spanish journalists have analyzed this draw that looked like a defeat from every angle. El Chiringuito, the leading debate show on the other side of the Pyrenees, for example, isolated an image in which Bellingham, Rodrygo, Vinicius and Mbappé all ask for the ball in the same area. With a reflection that everyone had seen coming: the cohabitation of all these talents will inevitably be a headache.