Is Kylian Mbappe’s problem? Real Madrid holders face the exit while the old PSG club becomes the Champions League favorites

Paris Saint-Germain had fairies against Aston villa, but they went through a difficult test, and Luis Enrique believes it will be stronger for it. They remain favorites to win the Champions League. Over you, Kylian Mbappe.

Since PSG is well placed to become the first French side in more than 30 years to raise the trophy, this is awkward time for Mbappe. He risks that the man who has joined the current European champions is just to discover that he is leaving the next European champions.

Just in itself, but worse when it is quite claimed that the power to move from Madrid to Paris partially made its move in the opposite direction. Only the return to Real Madrid would change the narrative against Arsenal.

Even in losing 3-2 from the villa at night, enough to progress 5-4 to the aggregate, PSG showed why the opposition captain John McGinn assessed them as the best team he ever faced. Technically excellent and full of tempo, they are punished in different ways.

“Of course, we’re a team that attacks a low block,” Luis Enrique said after that. “But we’re still better when there is room.” Their two goals were scored on a counter -attack. But teamwork also stands out, holding on to this in the middle of the attack.

Their story is a team that has lost probably the best player in the world, but found something in the process. For Luis Enrique, that’s revenge. Not only did he believe he could improve PSG after Mbappe left, he told everyone.

“I was very brave last season when I told you that we would have a better team in the attack and defense,” said the former Barcelona coach in February. “I still think we are better in attack and defense, the figures are there to say it. The players took it as a challenge.”

PSG has already created a more chance in Ligue 1 than in any of the previous five seasons – with six more games. “I told you that instead of having a player who scored 40 goals, I wanted the players that everyone would score a lot.” That happened.

Ousman Dembele, a scorer only three league goals last season, this time has 21 competitions and 29 total. Bradley Barcola weighed with 16, and Desire Doue scored eight. In criminal conditions, they replaced Mbappe to the aggregate.

But what is the harmful message that sends this from the perspective of Mbappe is what can be achieved when everyone puts a job in defense. It was a point Luis Enrique Radio last season – the most pronounced caught in documentary recordings.

“You have to put that example first as a person and as a player so you press,” said PSG coach, asking Mbappe to take his defense responsibility seriously, trying to convince him, emphasizing that Michael Jordan did so in basketball.

“And so fast,” Luis Enrique continued. “Why? Being a leader. Because you think you only have to score goals. Of course, you are a world phenomenon, a top player – no doubt that, but it doesn’t work for me,” he said wickedly.

“The real leader is when you can’t help us with goals … You help us with everything related to defense tasks,” he added, before summing up, concluding, “If … set up as an example of pressure, do you know what we have? F ****** teammate.”

Luis Enrique has that now. It is well illustrated when Doue found back to put out a break of the villa during the first leg in Paris. There were some defenses on the wall in the play Park, but there were also a lot of defense on the front.

Mbappe never realized that. Maybe he achieved too much too soon to be able to convince himself of the need. Understandably, when you brought Monaco to the 18th year, he won the World Cup while still a teenager, and then in the next finals he scored a hat-trick.

It is probably, however, winning the Champions League – and Ballon d’O or who could follow it – something is quite interested in Mbappe. It was one of the reasons to join the 15th European European Championship. Now the matter is actually doing it.

For Carla Ancelotti, the ultimate problem of the first world is that Mbappe has won it, but this is a coach who has made his career in making parts in harmony. Despite this, adjusting the team that has just won the Champions League is a management test.

The Mbappe itself is insightful enough to appreciate the complications. “My arrival has changed many things on the team.” Asked to play more centrally, although he is not a natural player on goal, he would rather take up Vinicius Junior positions.

It could happen that the Brazilian eventually moved in the end, but in the meantime, Ancelotti is trying to accommodate three last season with Mbappe to company. This means that Jude Bellingham moves deeper and Rodrygo is also adjusting.

Against Arsenal, unlike the willing of PSG attackers, Madrid wore several passengers defensively and it cost them. The first two goals came from Declan Riceo free kicks, but attempts to explain the results were unconvincing.

Madrid knows it’s easier for them to play now. What seemed last season as Bellingham played between Vinicius and Rodryg, it now looks like a relative template for success, winning them by the Champions League and returning to Laligu.

Compare the team that won the wembley at Wembley at Wembley with the one that Arsenal beat up well on the other side of the northern London. In simplification, Mbappe came for Carvajal Days, while others, including Fede Valverde, had to move back.

He left them vulnerable. Mbappe still scored goals, a lot of them. There are signs of understanding with Bellingham. If it clicks, it can be nice but no guarantee. Yet, because this is Madrid, belief in a potential return still exists.

If it feels fantastic, Mbappe is more like an emergency. His horror in the game against Alaves over the weekend, for which he sent, suggests that the player is used to bending the games in his will feels that pressure on him.

It’s been 16 years since Zlatan Ibrahimovic left Inter to sign for Barcelona and then the ruling champions of Europe, only to not only throw them out of the Italian side, but will win it themselves. It is Mbappe that only to make a reunion date.