Kylian Mbappe needs to get BACK TO THE BASICS - Stevie Nicol on Real Madrid struggles | ESPN FC

and I'm interested it's going to be so interesting if he doesn't turn it 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 Louis and it could turn out that way for Killian mbappe if it is to continue this way you know it well it's it's what it is when you wear the jersey of Real Madrid it 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 he's expecting from you the criticism is will start they going to give you a period everybody's talking and trying to be understandable you arrive to a different Club is is a big SPO light on you because of course you created that SPO light so now we're going to give you a trial we're going to give you maybe on 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 goingon to talk and it's goingon 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 Ling 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 in nobody wants to go any team regardless of what position you play and the team that's struggling just to make yourself but 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 moreti what happened today 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 it was it was him he wants to get his goal and by H high water he's going to do that regardless of whether somebody else is in 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 onean band the harder it's going to he get but is he doing that because he feels the pressure on him already that he's trying to so 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 is 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 Hots what PSG do outside of Paris and and one or two other places and you know we look at them 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're either going to be a superstar there or you're 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 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 CU 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 people down he's he's helping help me out he's been a great teammate that's what he 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 he'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 particularly well [Music]