Kylian Mbappé has said that he was so immersed in his thoughts that he struggled with Real Madrid, being as poor as he could be until very recently during which he is in full charge again.
Mbappé now seems to be on a roll in his top engineering with 18 goals for the season and, fantastically, four in his last three.
However, he previously acknowledged he had “hit rock bottom” when he missed two penalties within the space of a week while playing for the Champions League against Liverpool and La Liga against Athletic.
“I have been feeling a lot of sadness,” Mbappé said this before the press conference ahead of the match against RB Salzburg, when asked why it took him a long time to adapt to the team.
“I was trying to adapt, to think about the best way to move, how to find my position on the field, whether to go into the area of Vinícius Júnior or Rodrygo. When you think too much, you can’t play well.”
He added: “It was a mental issue. Physically I was fine, and I was happy with the team and the players, but I needed to give a lot more. I knew that. I told myself, ‘It’s time for a change. You didn’t come to Madrid to play poorly.'”
Mbappé has already won two trophies with Real Madrid since arriving last summer – the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Intercontinental Cup – but the team suffered a 5-2 defeat to Barcelona in the final of the Spanish Super Cup, although Mbappé scored a stunning goal at the start of that match.
