It’s a game with a lot at stake for Paris Saint-Germain. The Parisians welcome Benfica Lisbon for the fourth day of the Champions League football, Tuesday, October 11. After a draw conceded in Lisbon last week, Christophe Galtier’s men will have to win at the Parc des Princes to take the lead of their group alone. And PSG hopes to count on its star Kylian Mbappé, who is going through a more difficult period at the club.
There is indeed a kind of unease around the “crack of Bondy”, and it is almost to wonder if he does not sometimes regret having stayed in Paris. Kylian Mbappé is having an exceptional start to the season, his best in four years with eleven goals already scored, and yet he is frustrated, nervous. In question: his positioning on the ground with PSG, pivoting at the forefront of the attack, to weigh on the defenses, like Olivier Giroud.
But Kylian Mbappé does not like it. And he had complained about his situation a month ago. “I have a lot more freedom here, the coach knows there is a number 9 like Olivier (Giroud). Me, I can walk around, go into space, to ask for balloons. In Paris, it’s different, there isn’t that“, he confided, after his successful match with the Blues against Austria.
Rebelotte Saturday night, with PSG this time, after the game in Reims in the League. The striker posts a message on social networks which does not go unnoticed and in which Kylian Mbappé again refers to this pivotal position which he does not want.
His trainer Christophe Galtier, is obliged to recognize that there is a problem. “These are discussions that we often have with Kylian. I try to reassure him by trying to find different options, which for the moment have not been implemented for different reasons“, he explains, adding that the club “is obviously very sensitive to his remarks and his reflectionWe must hope for the capital club that the discussion bears fruit, and quickly. Kylian Mbappé has scored only one goal in his last four games with PSG.