The former attacker of real Madrid and the French team, Karim Benzemastated on a Spanish television channel that his compatriot Kylian Mbappé He is not really a center forward, while pointing out a lack of compatibility with the Brazilian Vinicius Junior.
“The problem for me is that Mbappé is not a center forward. Every time he plays for France as ‘9’ it is not good, it is not his position. The problem is that on the left there is another player who is at the same level as him,” said the French star, 36, in an interview given Monday night on the sports program El Chiringuito.
“You can’t put Vini on the right or as a center forward, where he makes a difference is on the left. Let’s see how (Carlo) Ancelotti does that,” the Italian coach of Real Madrid, continued Benzema, who currently plays in Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ittihad.
“Ancelotti knows a lot and is going to see how he solves that. Mbappé is not a 9. People ask him for a lot of things, a lot of pressure. And this is not PSG,” said the French striker, who won the Ballon d’Or in 2022.
Benzema is clear that Mbappé does not have to give up: “He doesn’t have to give up. I don’t think Vini is going to move because he is the best in the world now. He has to get it into his head that he is now a 9 and forget about it.” of the left.”
The former forward of the merengue club, who spent 14 seasons in the team, also recalled the pressure at Real Madrid: “My situation the first year and Kylian’s is different. I was 21 years old and he is 25, it is not the same” .
“He knows that there is a lot of pressure at Real Madrid. You don’t score a goal in two or three games and they are going to kill you. He has to learn to live with that. He has to put that pressure on himself. Every game is new and you have to score goals , they have brought him for that and he has the level for it,” he added.
