2024-03-02 21:10:00
For the second consecutive match, Luis Enrique chose to replace Kylian Mbappé, during PSG’s draw once morest Monaco (0-0), a key match for the Parisian team in the race for the Ligue 1 title. During these 45 minutes, he apparently had no physical problems, despite a chance meeting with Guillermo Maripán which caused him to suffer in the first instance.
The expected explanations from Luis Enrique at the end of the match were the same as last week: “ You have to get used to it“, without ever denying that it was a “punishment”. Although a novelty in itself, what happened following Mbappé remained in the dressing room when the second half resumed is even more striking.
Despite the traditional unwritten rule of football that substituted players wait until the end of the match with the rest of their teammates on the sidelines, the match cameras filmed Mbappé, first of all, smiling and chatting on his cell phone in the tunnel, as if the match was not going to take place. Shortly following, following walking around the athletics track of the Louis II stadium and signing autographs, which was once his home, he might be seen in the stands with his mother and his agent, Fayza Lamari, in the same playful attitude and far from any image of competitive seriousness that a club wishes to see in its players in the middle of a match. Mbappé chose to do this instead of watching the rest of the match with his teammates.
At the final whistle, Mbappé came down onto the pitch and was seen smiling and jumping alongside his teammates, waving to the stands. “ The presence of Mbappé in the stands in the second half? I didn’t see what was happening off the field. It’s part of the spectacle of football and my spectacle is what happens on the pitch“said Luis Enrique.
Mbappé walking aroung the stadium following he got subbed off. 👀pic.twitter.com/yPggK93gpw
— KMZ (@KM10Zone) March 1, 2024
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