Mbappé after his hat-trick in Champions League: “We must not forget what happened against Atleti”

Sports Writing (EFE).— Kylian Mbappé shone with a hat-trick in Real Madrid’s thrashing of Kairat Almaty (0-5) in the Champions League, but the French striker made it clear that the victory should not erase the harsh defeat suffered days earlier in the Madrid derby against Atletico Madrid, the first fall of the season.

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“You must never forget what has happened. This is another competition, but you have to keep thinking about what happened at the weekend so that something like that doesn’t happen again”, said the attacker after the match in Kazakhstan. With his three goals, Mbappé reached 60 goals in the Champions League, although he insisted that his priority remains collective success. “I work to help the team. The most important thing is to win matches and trophies. If I score, better; if not, I help in another way”. The Frenchman, demanding of himself, assured that he could have increased his goal tally: “A player like me, when he has five chances, has to score five goals. That’s why Real Madrid signed me. I always want more“. He also valued the connection with Arda Güler, whom he described as a “young man with a lot of quality and talent”, and joked about an assist from Thibaut Courtois in the long run: “I don’t know if he did it on purpose, but it was a huge pass; he did 80 percent of the goal and I did 20.” With this triumph, Real Madrid regains confidence in Europe after the fall at the Metropolitano, although Mbappé reiterated that self-criticism is necessary to maintain the competitive level.