Mbappé arrived at the Club World Cup shot. He was the only one in Real Madrid, along with Courtois and other isolated cases, which could afford to say that he was in full way after a season to forget. The achievement of the Golden Boot, after a scoring explosion in matches such as the classic, It was enough argument to think that the future of the white club would be built around French. All this, despite the fact that projects with a star as a center do not usually go well. Mbappé's case in the PSG was no exception.
Loss of muscles after gastroenteritis
Before the tournament, after the team of selections, Mbappé contracted a stomach virus that incubated before traveling to the US. The journey aggravated everything and when his condition came to Miami, he did not improve. Despite the treatments dispensed, if situation was complicated in such a way that it ended up admitted for a few hours in a hospital in the city. Until they managed to lower the fever. He lost between four and five kilos, something easily noticeable in the images disseminated by the club.
Until Wednesday 25 he failed to return to training, first with individual character, and since this weekend, integrated with the group with the aim of reaching the quarterfinals on Tuesday against Juventus (9:00 p.m.). He will do it without minutes in the group stage, important to process the accelerated change that Xabi Alonso has implemented in just 20 days that leads to the command of a club he wants to make recognizable through the ball. The situation is opposed to what has lived with Ancelotti.
It will be Mbappé who will have to adapt to his teammates and not vice versa, as it seemed in the outline of a project with the Frenchman in the center that will not take place. Because Xabi Alonso has marked the pattern since very soon: he who does not attend to the lessons will end up losing privileges. Logically, Real Madrid is not conceived without Mbappé, but the Frenchman returns to the time of Luis Enrique. PIzarra and pressure as life forms. From there the identity of the white club will be built. The 'Laissez-Faire' of Ancelotti was over.
Vinicius inside to look for more association
Xabi Alonso is not going to make the continued error of the PSG that a team was making around the Frenchman, who took the competition of other egos such as Messi or Neymar with the approval of Al-Khelaifi, which he would later betray. This formula allowed Mbappé to gain his individual numbers, but did not work at critical momentswhen only in danger, as has happened to France sometimes, it was not able to load with all the weight that must be distributed in a competition such as a Champions or a World Cup.
In the absence of Mbappé, a quarry player, such as Gonzalo García has given a lesson to perfectly understand what Xabi Alonso wants from a striker. The top scorer of Castilla and the first RFEF this season knew how to understand the flexibility that the Basque scheme is requested, being a reference in positional attack, but also having the ability to associate inside with Vinicius. Always asking unchecks and having intelligence to see their classmates. With two goals and two assists has been the best white player of the first phase (2 goals and 2 assists).
The reappearance of Mbappé is one of the great incentives of the Club World Cup that the Golden Ball was going to decide and that for the moment has not added in any of the candidacies. Dembélé is expected to also be available for the crossroads against Inter Miami. ANDThe Real Madrid player already knows what awaits him with Xabi Alonso. First, pressure intensity if you do not want to be warned, as it happened to Vinicius in these two games. And then, synergies with the Brazilian, who, inside, resurfaced in front of the RB Salzburg after drowning in sterile dribbles against Pachuca and the Hilal.
