The defenders couldn’t do it, so it took an injury to stop Kylian Mbappé. In great shape since the start of the season, the Real Madrid and Blues striker will have to rest for a large part of the month of January. According to information from the Team, which we are able to confirm, the captain of the France team was hit in the left knee and suffers from a small lesion in the external ligament which will keep him away from the field for at least three weeks.
This injury, revealed by an MRI this Wednesday morning, dates from before the break and has even bothered Mbappé for several matches, without him having imagined its seriousness. He thus played all of Real Madrid’s matches at the end of December, equaling the record of 59 goals for the “White House” in a calendar year previously held by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Second top scorer in the major European championships behind Bayern’s Englishman Harry Kane (30 against 29), Mbappé will experience the first real setback in his season, having only missed a handful of matches with the Blues due to ankle pain.
Mbappé will miss the Madrid derby
“When Mbappé is not on the pitch, his absence is felt,” his coach Xabi Alonso admitted at a press conference. We had enough chances to score that second goal, but when it’s not your turn, it doesn’t matter how hard you try. »
Kylian Mbappé should therefore miss the four receptions of Betis Sevilla, Atlético Madrid, Levante and AS Monaco in the Champions League. He will therefore finally be able to recover after a long period without stopping playing. He had already taken advantage of the winter break to go to Rabat a few days ago to watch his friend Achraf Hakimi’s Morocco match against Mali in the African Cup of Nations.
