New twist? ‘I’ve not decided on my future. I play for PSG”

Real Madrid has done everything they could to avoid defeat in the first leg of the Champions League match with Paris Saint Germain. The Royal club played ultra-defensively at Park de Princes, they managed to get injured Karim Benzema in shape for the match (lasted until 87th minute) and Courtois saved Leo Messi’s penalty in the 62nd minute. That should have been enough against any other club, but not against PSG with Kylian Mbappe. The potential Real player come June has done his magic, and boy, it was some magic, and secured the win after all.

If Real crashes out of the Champions League thanks to that goal, it will be the ultimate sacrifice which they had to pay in order to finally secure the signature of one of the best strikers in the world. And according to Real coach, and maybe his next coach Carlo Ancelotti, he IS the best player.

“Mbappe is the best player in European football. Mbappe is unstoppable, we have tried to control him. Militao has done very well, but he is a player who always invents something. We didn't play well but we are not dead yet. We need to press more in the second leg. We are behind on the scoreboard and need to be better on the ball, which we didn't do well today. We couldn't get out with the ball and we misplaced a lot of passes because of their high press. They did that well and put us under difficulty in that sense” said Ancelotti after the game.

And the hero himself? Well, he enjoyed quite a bit, and didn’t want to say anything about his future with Real. On the contrary.

“I've not decided my future. I play for Paris Saint-Germain, one of the best clubs in the world. This game to influence my future? No - I've not decided, I give my best and then we will see what happens next season. How to ignore the transfer context? It's easy, you have to play football. We ask too many questions, we say too many things. We talk about PSG and Real, two big clubs. I'm a PSG player, I'm always very happy. I said I would give it my all. I had to show it with actions. I did it the first time, we'll have to show it a second time at the Bernabeu. How do we approach the return? We have to win. First of all for us to be competitors. Going there to say that we have a result is not worthy of a club like PSG. We'll have to analyse the match, it will be a different context” said Mbappe to the Movistar and Canal +.

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Round of 16

Tuesday

Sporting - Manchester City 0-5 (0-4)

/Mahrez 7, Silva 17, 44, Foden 32, Sterling 58/

PSG - Real Madrid 1-0 (0-0)

/Mbappe 90+4/

Wednesday

23:00: (8.00) Salzburg (5.30) Bayern (1.40)

23:00: (3.35) Inter (3.50) Liverpool (2.25)

February 22nd

23:00: (1.37) Chelsea (4.80) Lille (8.50)

23:00: (2.70) Villareal (3.10) Juventus (2.75)

February 23rd

23:00: (3.50) Benfica (3.45) Ajax (2.10)

23:00: (2.55) Atl.Madrid (3.15) Man.Utd. (2.85)

***odds are subject to change