At the Vélodrome stadium,
Kylian Mbappé had not planned to “hide”, we hardly saw him on Sunday evening during Paris Saint-Germain’s victory in Marseille (2-0), at the end of the 28th day of Ligue 1. The future ex-Parisian striker was very expected for his probable last classic, after the announcement to his managers of his wish to leave Paris this summer, it practically did not exist.
First aligned on the left side, he was refocused after the expulsion of defender Beraldo just before the break (41st). But Mbappé never managed to create danger, whether on the side or in the center. The 66,046 spectators obviously trembled at almost every one of his shots, but he ultimately remained moved between missed dribbles and missed passes.
“The same music every week is boring”
And when he was in a position to score, Vitinha preferred to finish rather than serve it (53rd). A transparent match which ended in the 64th minute, when Luis Enrique did not hesitate to replace him under a thunder of whistles, as with each of his ball catches. Kylian Mbappé then returned directly to the locker room. “It’s the same music every week, the same music… it’s boring, I’m the manager, I make decisions every week,” Luis Enrique defended himself at Amazon Prime.
If some colleagues were able to read “son of a bitch” on the lips of number 7 at the time of his exit, his trainer “saw nothing, saw nothing at all”. And it was his replacement Gonçalo Ramos who definitively killed the match by concluding a counter-attack carried out at lightning speed (85th). “I saw him smiling in the locker room, he was happy that we won,” said defender Milan Skriniar in the mixed zone.
But Kylian Mbappé posted a photo of himself in the evening, head down as he left with the captain’s armband in his hand, without the slightest comment. A new episode in the difficult management of Kylian Mbappé since he is no longer untouchable in Paris and the announcement of his departure. But he will be able to boast of never having lost against OM in the colors of PSG, when he leaves this summer.