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Does Real Madrid Have an Mbappe Problem?

ESPN FC

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew continue to react to Real Madrid's loss to Lille and question if Kylian Mbappe's lack of defensive effort is holding back the Champions League holders. Plus, Kieran Gibbs joins the show to break down Arsenal's set piece dominance and explain why he thinks Manchester United will upset Aston Villa on Sunday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome into this edition of ESPNFC, I'm Dan Thomas joined today by Dr. Shaka,

0:09.3

it's still up later on in the program here and Gibbs will be here to tell us why he thinks Manchester United

0:14.1

will beat Aston Villa at the weekend, but we kick things off in Spain.

0:18.7

It's been a bad week, hasn't it, for the defending champions of both the Champions League and La Liga and the newspapers

0:24.8

are pulling no punches.

0:26.2

The front page of ass is saying X-ray of a down-for marker goes even further, we've hit

0:32.2

rock bottom. This is what Carlo Androlotti said. Of course,

0:34.8

they'd lost against Lille, it was a lacklust of performance against Adleti as well.

0:38.4

He said, this defeat can be a great opportunity if we're able to react well. I'm pretty used to it. I'm not worried at all.

0:45.8

My only concern is that we have to play better. We agree that we are lacking a bit of

0:50.8

intensity. The ball needs to get quicker to our forwards. We welcome

0:56.2

to the show the man the myth the legend Adrian Healy of course now resides in

0:59.9

Valencia in Spain he has his finger very much on the pulse of who's being blamed here

1:04.8

agent of this real Madrid downfall? Well it's a good question Dan you know you know

1:11.5

the Madrid press had never wanted to hold back in a

1:15.1

signing blame at all. Even Jude Bellingham is coming under the

1:18.8

microscope for goodness sake and he's playing a completely different role than what he

1:22.4

did last year.

1:23.2

But it's been interesting watching Carlo Entewardi handle this kind of assault.

1:29.6

You know, one defeat away from a crisis is the constant state he lives in and he hasn't had to do a press conference

1:38.0

following a defeat for a long time.

1:40.0

So he might have been out of practice a little bit but he basically said

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