[FULL REACTION] Kylian Mbappe's struggles continue as Real Madrid DRAW with Las Palmas | ESPN FC

but it is their second draw in three in this La Liga campaign so far and when you think about where things are in the standings right now we're only three games in but Barcelona have been perfect in this time Real Madrid not in the top four at this point four points after three games behind Barcelona Luis Garcia big smile on your face looking at those standings there wasn't a big smile on the face of Carlo angelosi and his men on the sidelines tonight yeah definitely it's a b that we are just the beginning of the La Liga competition is a long long race that we got in front of us but yeah I think that Real Madrid needs to improve a lot and not only at the front but also at the back into the mid we've seen a team that is not together it doesn't work as a unit we've seen the first 45 how the team tried to press just in in waves with three four players and then the rest of the team is waiting at the back so there's no intention to work as as a as a as a unit to work in in one site or in one area so kind of misunderstanding not not not a talking not communication so when you have to work like this is is not easy everyone is focusing on what mbapp can do what benus junor can do and I think we are forgetting that they have to to work as a team individuals can win you a game but a champions league is going to be won by a by a whole team so um yeah I think that it needs to improve it needs to improve quick because you cannot allow Barcelona Atletico Madrid and the teams at the front to make a bigger Gap because then Champions League will come back and you will be involved in another competition tough competition this year just don't forget there are more games and you're going to need to rotate it's not going to be easy to get back to to of En closing that Gap what's wrong with them right now Real Madrid what's going wrong for them is it have some of the players tired from Summer are they not adapting well they had the appetite in the first half the first half of this game they had the appetite to play in this game about as much as I've I've had the last 24 hours for this Champions League draw in new format and that's s right they looked as disinterested uh there was no speed to the play without with the ball there was no uh grafting and trying to as soon as Los palas won the ball there was no you know when the teams say now some of these best teams and in Real Madrid obviously last year were the best team in Europe uh and the best team in Spain but we talk about a lot of teams particularly in England when they don't have the ball they try and win it back as quickly as they can and then the pressure again thinking about Man City Arsenal have been like it and others Liverpool but there's no intensity there was no I think interest to win the ball back and then put pressure on they were happy to let Los palas pass the ball around because they had two or three passengers that didn't want to work hard defensively and two of them were the biggest biggest stars mbappe and Venus Jr Venus Jr got got the hook towards the end of the game got subbed uh mbapp got a little better in the second half I mean was a low bar uh but it's been it was as disjointed and as sluggish as mayorca was as via the lead was at home until valver scored the free kick it was it was no better and You could argue it was probably worse so uh angelot he said after the meorc game he was very Frank in his media interview he said not good enough not good enough and I'm interested to know what he's going to say in the next 24 hours about this because that was very poor you got to be saying that again hasn't he not good enough he can't see anything other than that I mean it's one thing not to win games but it's another thing to be Real Madrid and not even deserve to win the game and and not even create opportunities I mean the question you asked is what's the pro I mean it's so much easier to say what's going right because you could be here all day talking about what's going wrong defensively that's a horrible goal to lose milit to was as bad defensively tonight as mbapp was going forward the middle of the park didn't dominate anything for any period of time and the front line look looked as though it had just been thrown together I mean there's been no cohesion on this team from back middle to front since this this since the league started started back up and Angelo's got a tough job to get it going and if your only problem was cohesion then that's a lot easier but when you're adding when you're adding appetite for the game that's that that that's a problem you know it's just every which way you want to look at this team right now there's a problem in every Department basically how do they stop this being a problem then they've got another Match Day Louise before the international break comes how do they make sure that they put out a good image in that one to go into the break on a high because this is not a good start and as you know we're already seeing the Press saying things questioning when goals are coming they need a big result at the weekend how are they going to get it yeah exactly I think it's starting from a a different energy I think from the very beginning you could see that he didn't match the intensity of Las palalas and he happened exactly the same against Maya we I think that we we said many times that Talent don't win games if hard work is is doing the right thing you need to match this kind of energy if you because you're G to have more Talent at all in every single line but if the energy is not the right one no nothing can you cannot do anything they are very well organized we saw Las Palmas with a very clear idea how to how to contain the attacks of M or venicius Jun doubling up in the wide areas also bringing the ball and having the ball what he was needed to rest with the ball not being around we saw Las palas pressing in the last 10 minutes with four players in the other half so that means that the teams know how to how to deal with Real Madrid at the moment because they know and I think that in the end ancelot will agree cross is going to be very important missing Cru into the middle of the park as soon as the time continue moving forward we're going to see that Real Madrid is going to be very very damaged into the center of the park because there is no one like with the capacity of having the ball to have the clear idea and what is needed to be done every single time so need to find a way of uh having a player of that intensity or two players who can create from the middle of the park so I think that Real Madrid first of all needs to bring that intensity higher to bring that competitiveness higher and once then the talent up front he will do the job but uh meanwhile they continue with this lack of intensity or dynamism I think they're going to continue struggling and let's get to the elephant in the room he's done nothing hasn't he done nothing really in his three leate games killing mbapp cuz he's not even close to the standards that those players set at this level uh they did it year in year out and when they dropped dropped their level even just a little bit in the team struggle they got it and I'm interested it's going to be so interesting if he doesn't turn that around if this crowd turn early on him not suggestion they will but they've done it to others how he will handle that how will he handle the pressure of being this big Superstar now and it's not quite happening cuz they'll turn on somebody and it's probably going to be him we've seen them do it we've seen the Spanish media turn quickly Louise and it could turn out that way for Killian mbappe if it is to continue this way you know it well is is what it is when you wear the Jersey of Real Madrid he comes with a with a lot of expectation and because we've been talking about mbappe everybody's been waiting for him and let's don't forget he said no to Real Madrid few years back and people is going to remember that moment once you arrive here if you don't H deliver what expecting from you the criticism is will start they going to give you a period everybody's talking and trying to be understandable you arri to different Club is a is a big Spotlight on you because of course you created that Bight so now we're going to give you a trial we're going to give you maybe a mon three four games and then get ready but if K mbapp doesn't show up in the next games and then I'm talking about scoring 16 being a threat every single time yes Real Madrid crowd is going to talk and he's going to talk very quickly and it's not something that is going to help him to adapt to the new the new team might it have been easier for him to come into this side had they been struggling more if they had more to win you know he's coming to a side where all these guys know they were already winning without him has that made it more difficult for him no I I don't think so no I mean nobody nobody wants to go nobody wants to go any team regardless of what position you play in a team that's struggling just to make yourself I say struggling by their standards I suppose because then he could be seen as the savior in his eyes listen at the end of the day what he has to do is get back to basics you know we've just we've just shown a little Montage here of what happened today you you talk about making the wrong decision at the wrong time and he did it other than the one strike he got on Sison that went straight at Sison he was taking shots when he shouldn't have done he had too many players around him the shot wasn't on but yet he still tried it now when you're playing for Real Madrid and you've got Vinnie and Rodrigo either side of you the second half in particular if you've got three players on you get your head up and pick the right pass that's not what he's doing he certainly wasn't doing that in that montage do it was it was him he wants to get his goal and by Hil high water he's going to do that regardless of whether somebody else isn't a better position cuz he wasn't looking for anybody in a better position right now his focus is on him and my opinion would be get the focus off yourself and just play as part of the team cuz if you do that everything will fall into place the more he tries to make it a oneman band the harder it's going to get but is he doing that because he feels the pressure on him already that he's trying to make yeah I mean I've never seen him making so many bad decisions in one game as he did today that has to be has to be down to a little bit of anxiety and as I said he better got over that because his anxiety is beginning to spread to everybody else on that team well let's be honest he's him with the big boys now isn't he and I don't mean that he's won a World Cup with with France but he was at PSG and and you know being honest Champions League apart or whether you live in France it doesn't nobody really gives two Hoots what PSG do outside of Paris and and one or two other places and you know we look at him in the Champions League and that's where we can of judge him be for that reason uh and now he's front and center probably twice a week you know and and that's that's the do and die at this at this club you know you either going to be a superstar there or you going to morph back into mediocrity which I don't expect he's going to do but I mean he's still what he has to go out he's not he's not in France now he's not he's not getting pampered he's not getting Molly coddled he's in Madrid and it it's a burning fire of people just want results right he has to work harder than he's ever worked he has to run faster he has to tackle harder and he has to be a better teammate than he's ever been and on top of that he's going to have to produce moments of magic that getting people off their back back sides he's going to have to do all of that and I suggest he starts by working a lot harder than he's doing right cuz what he did in France isn't going to be good enough in terms of what rate for what he needs at Real Madrid and that's a starting point for your teammates if you want respect from your teammates you got to make them you got to make them look at you say look at that guy look at him he's working his socks off he's closing P down he's he's helping me out he's been a great teammate that's what it has to be and I never and I think he's always struggled in that department because it has always been about him but I think at Real Madrid is's going to have to be more than just worrying about himself he's going to have to think about the sum of all the parts and how how they get the best out of it and at the moment he and not not him alone but he's not doing that particular will when they were given a penalty Lis did you wonder who was going to step up and take it did you think we might have seen mbappe yeah at some point I I thought about it I was expecting Maybe to step forward or at least someone say listen you take it and we want you to to take that pressure of your back same question to you done with him already done with him today did you I feel I feel like people might be watching this saying oh you picking on him a little bit it's not that he's he's as L said he's put himself in this position he had two years fluffing around he gave Florentino Perez a big custard pie a couple years ago oh I'm staying here it's a project in Paris what utter nonsense so he brought this pressure by people who have just been H Madrid fans in particular just been hanging on waiting when's he coming when's he coming and now he's here it it's there's a lot of superstars on this team and venius Jr has not scored the penalty he's not had the best start of the season right Jude bingham's injured we had luuka Modric come in today to offer control in the middle of the part and as Stuart Robson said he just did not have a very good game maybe AG is catching up with him as well it's not easy so there are lots of other factors but you know if Cristiano Ronaldo was still playing at Real Madrid and playing like this would that be our number one person to talk about and Kelling mbappe is now that incumbent person so he is now that person to talk about and in some sense he's put him in himself in that position and then no surprise we always talk about keep your mouth shut and just do it then you can talk once you've done it you can talk what was he talking about a couple of weeks ago 50 goals 50 was it I don't see I missed that he was talking about sco 50 goal was he asked it or was he saying it well he he he went along with it let's put it that way he quite liked the idea that he was going to get 50 goals well still yet to score so far you know how many he's got in La Liga none zero okay you're good M AR you I'm no bad well oh killing mbapp fans will be watching going no the haters just ha mbappe fans will be able to watch Julian Lon I mean he'll be watching it could be turned around on I don't know he's hiding three times we could have had Julian L got he was very happy to come on tonight and help us talk about problems with Real Madrid and what's going on I know you can make sure to catch more La Liga action this weekend and see if Real Madrid can turn things around when they take on real Al Bettis on Sunday Barcelona Riding High at the top of the table right now they kick off the round against ra B an athleti will need to do better when they take on athletic Club it's not going to be easy there though all of these games available on ESPN Plus [Music]