The reception at the Orange Vélodrome in Marseille for Kylian Mbappé, this Tuesday evening on the sidelines of the friendly match between the France team and Chile, was inevitably going to be scrutinized. In a stadium that is always hostile to Paris Saint-Germain players, especially when they have got into the bad habit of scoring on almost every visit, we rarely avoid loud whistles, even when we come to represent the ‘French team.
The captain of the Blues did not escape it, he who will return to Marseille this Sunday to play his last Clasico in the jersey of PSG. While Didier Deschamps’ men entered the pitch for the warm-up, the Marseille public, in a Vélodrome still very partially filled, let their boos be heard when Kylian Mbappé appeared on the giant screen. Before being replaced by… Jonathan Clauss and William Saliba, who were warmly applauded.
The whistles continued for the Bondynois when the teams were announced, as for the other Parisian present on the pitch this Tuesday evening: Randal Kolo Muani.
“It’s a big stadium, it’s one of the 2-3 stadiums in France which are the hottest,” Kylian Mbappé said at a press conference this Monday. I’m just going to concentrate on playing and no matter what reception I get, I’m going to give my best. To be honest I would understand if I was whistled, there is a clasico on Sunday, I am a PSG player. If I get whistled that’s life, if I don’t get whistled I’ll be pleasantly surprised. » No pleasant surprise for him this Tuesday evening, therefore.
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