The Frenchman has scored fifteen goals this season and the Bianconeri have scored a total of fifteen. The former PSG has not been without a goal between La Liga and France since September 5th. Xabi Alonso: “His importance goes far beyond goals”
In Spain there is an expression that is often used in sports, ‘pleno al quince’. It refers to the 15th of the maximum win in the ‘quiniela’ the local football pools. The 15th is our ‘thirteen’. And it is a significant number on this eve of Real Madrid-Juventus, because 15 are the goals scored by Tudor’s team in the first 9 seasonal outings between Serie A and the Champions League, and 15 are the goals scored by Kylian Mbappé in the last 11 appearances with the Blancos and the Blues in which the French ‘Kyller’ has always found the way to the net, a streak that began on 5 September last and which represents his personal best.
DRY JUVE
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The season’s goals for him are 18, because Mbappé had also scored in the first two days of La Liga, so here is the impressive figure: in the 14 matches played between Madrid (11) and France (3) he did not see the goal only once, against Mallorca, on 30 August. Juventus have already been left empty twice as often, in the last two outings, the 0-0 draw with Milan and the defeat against Como, and have reached 214 minutes (plus recoveries) without a goal.
LIKE CR7
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Kylian Mbappé scored 42 goals in his first Spanish season and was ‘pichichi’ in La Liga (31 goals). Now with Madrid he is already at 15, our number that returns, after just 11 games of a season which for Los Blancos could reach well over 60 matches. Mbappé travels to the middle school of Cristiano Ronaldo, who in 9 years at the Bernabeu scored 450 goals, 50 per season on average… but there’s more.
THE INFLUENCE
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And here we leave the floor to Xabi Alonso, to whom this morning in Valdebebas we asked for an in-depth analysis of his super striker: “When we talk about Mbappé we cannot limit ourselves to goals, which are obviously super important. His positive influence on the team is almost as important. How his teammates follow him when he is with or without the ball, how he helps direct and direct the matches… Kylian has always scored goals wherever he has played, but now here his influence is greater and it is fundamental, he has grown a lot in this sense. He is in a very positive moment in his life and after the first year today his adaptation is excellent. Kylian is an analytical, intelligent guy who always does things for a reason: he has to understand them well, and only when he has done it then everything fits in his head and this allows him to do very well.”
1-0 REAL
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Xabi, a very intelligent person, described the head of his crack very well. A restless, demanding, ambitious type. It’s overwhelming. Today Madrid with Mbappé starts 1-0, exactly as it happened in Ronaldo’s time. The rest of his teammates so far in 25-26 have scored 12 goals (5 from Vinicius, 3 from Arda Güler, one each from Militao, Brahim, Mastantuono and Camavinga): if they really start to follow him and adapt to his incredible level, this Madrid team can become unstoppable.
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