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Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappe smiles during the lukewarm up anterior to the commencement of the Champions League opening signifier shot lucifer betwixt Brest and Real Madrid astatine Roudourou stadium successful Guingamp, France, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Paris St Germain manager Luis Enrique opined that the existent French league leaders person been amended successful onslaught and defence since guardant Kylian Mbappe near the club.
“I was precise brave past play erstwhile I told you that we would person a amended squad successful onslaught and defence. I inactive deliberation that we are amended (in both), the numbers are determination to accidental it. The players took it arsenic a challenge. Of people we would person liked to support Kylian, due to the fact that everyone loved him, but the squad is responding … astatine a spectacular level,” Enrique said.
“I told you that alternatively than having a subordinate who scores 40 goals, I wanted players who each people a lot. Faced with a concern that we did not privation but which happened, the maturity of the squad is precise good,” helium added.
Mbappe near to articulation the Spanish giants successful June aft 7 years successful Paris, having scored much than 170 goals successful Ligue 1 from much than 200 appearances for the club.
Reigning champions PSG are the lone unbeaten squad successful Europe’s apical 5 leagues aft 20 games, sitting 10 points wide of Olympique de Marseille and 13 supra Monaco.
They bushed Monaco 4-2 successful the reverse fixture successful December earlier a last-gasp Ousmane Dembele extremity helped them to a 1-0 triumph successful the French Super Cup successful January.
Luis Enrique said helium wanted the 27-year-old Dembele, who besides scored doubly astatine Monaco, to go the team’s leader.
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“Right now, helium is successful an perfectly spectacular series. His statistic person exploded compared to the opening of his career, that’s obvious,” Luis Enrique said.
“He has to beryllium important for the team, not conscionable scoring goals. To people a goal, idiosyncratic has to springiness you an assist. What we are looking for with Ousmane is … for him to proceed to beryllium a determining player, with assists and antiaircraft efforts.
“Becoming a person of the squad is not conscionable astir scoring goals. Being a person is thing different. I judge that Ousmane, precise clearly, tin go 1 of the leaders of the team.”
(With bureau inputs)
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