Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 remained silent on Wednesday night during Real Madrid\u2019s 2\u20131 defeat to Arsenal\u2014a result that sealed Los Blancos\u2019 elimination from the Champions League. The French striker has faced criticism from the Spanish press\u2014and even from his own teammates, notably goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who was far from kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No remontada for Real Madrid. After being hammered 3\u20130 by Arsenal in the first leg, the Merengues were unable to turn the tie around on Wednesday night. In the return leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, they suffered another loss, going down 2\u20131 to the Gunners. The result sent them crashing out of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This early exit has triggered a wave of harsh criticism in the Madrid press, which lashed out at Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s squad. The locker room, too, is reportedly frustrated with the team\u2019s lackluster performance, including goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who openly criticized the forwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Without naming him directly, the Belgian shot-stopper clearly aimed his remarks at Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, who was virtually invisible during the match. Courtois went as far as to suggest that his French teammate is not \u201ca natural striker,\u201d and lamented the absence of\u2026 Joselu, who left for Qatar last summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cArsenal is a team that defends well, is well organized, presses effectively, and it\u2019s difficult to find space. We send in a lot of crosses, but this year we don\u2019t have Joselu\u2014a natural striker,\u201d he told Movistar Plus+<\/em> after the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 surely won\u2019t appreciate that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 remained silent on Wednesday night during Real Madrid\u2019s 2\u20131 defeat to Arsenal\u2014a result that sealed Los Blancos\u2019 elimination from the Champions League. The French striker has faced criticism from the Spanish press\u2014and even from his own teammates, notably goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who was far from kind. No remontada for Real Madrid. After being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":492296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"pays":[93],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-527231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football-news-benews-sport","8":"pays-europe"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527231"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=527231"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=527231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}