Kylian Mbappe has endured one night to forget, because Real Madrid was beaten 3-0 on Tuesday evening by Arsenal in the first leg of the Champions League Quarterfinal First Been
Thierry Henry has revealed that he told Kylian Mbappe that he did not want to “see” him “against Arsenal during their pre-match Touchline-Omhelzing. The Gunners legend was Pitch-Side to the Emirates as part of the reporting of CBS Sports on the Refendant Champions League quarterfinals Matchup.
And Mbappe made it a point to approach his countryman, because there is a huge mutual respect between the two devastating attackers. Both came through the ranks in Monaco and are considered icons of the French national team.
Henry has since revealed that he has told Mbappe that he hoped that the Real Madrid attacker would have an off -night, in which it is explained: “It is always a huge respect when I see Kylian Mbappe, we both went to Clairefontaine. I play against the team tonight, no.”
The airy message clearly paid dividends. Although Mbappe certainly had opportunities in the opening 45 minutes – of which the best was stopped by David Raya – it was a bitter frustrating evening for the 26 -year -old World Cup winner and Real Madrid. The side of Carlo Ancelotti was blown away in the second half by two stunning free kicks from Declan Rice and a sublime third of Mikel Merino when Arsenal made a gigantic leap to the semi -final.
The Superstar Summer Signing from PSG has since posted on Instagram: “We have to believe to the end”, the hope for another brave Vechtback on the Bernabeu in next week's return bone. Real Madrid boss Ancelotti is of the same opinion that all hope is not yet lost, and adds his press conference after the game: “Normally this team increased their game by the end of the games. It was disappointing, it was bad. We have to be critical of ourselves here and do everything we can recover next week.”
To make matters worse, midfielder Eduardo Camavinga received a second yellow card in the final phase of the game after he had kicked the ball in frustration. The improvised backline of Real Madrid, including Federico Valverde Right-back and David Alaba, struggled to fight with Arsenal's hunger and potential in the last third part.
Alaba in particular could not come close to Bukayo Saka, who made his first start since December on the right flank for the Gunners. Mikel Arteta was happy with the performance of his team and explained: “I am very proud, we had a very complete and great performance together and you need that in the organization and what we had to do to dominate the game and create Madrid problems.
“This night is about both factors, one is the atmosphere that we have made 15 minutes before the kick -off, is something I have never seen before, so playing with that energy with your crowd makes a huge difference. And then magical moments, individual moments that decide all competitions and the first two goals of Declan are summarized the night.”
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