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After a grand debut ceremony in front of more than 80,000 fans at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on the afternoon of July 16, Mbappe got acquainted with the Real coaching staff and some teammates at Los Blancos, before going on vacation with his family in the US. .
The striker, captain of the French national team, did not participate in any pre-season friendly matches with the Spanish Royal team.
Real’s next match is the European Super Cup match against Atalanta at Kazimierz Gorski National Stadium in Warsaw (Poland) on August 14.
Speaking at the latest press conference, coach Ancelotti revealed that he really expected Mbappe to participate in this match.
During his time off, Mbappe always works hard to train his body to be ready for battle. Before the match in Warsaw, Marca just revealed information related to Mbappe.
Accordingly, the 25-year-old striker will not be given priority for penalty kicks in the 2024/25 season at Real Madrid.
Before coming to Real, Mbappe was the player who owned the penalty kick rights at PSG. In Ligue 1 2023/24 alone, the former AS Monaco striker took 6 successful penalties.
Coach Ancelotti appointed Vinicius to perform Real Madrid’s penalty kicks next season. Last season, the Brazilian international was Los Blancos’ preferred star penalty taker.
Without the privilege of taking penalty kicks, Mbappe will be the number 1 choice in taking Real’s direct free kicks – this is a privilege once assigned to superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.
The problem is that Mabappe has never scored a goal on a direct free kick throughout his career. Meanwhile, Ronaldo is more comprehensive than Mbappe. At that time, CR7 was already a great free kick striker and had scored many super goals in the MU shirt. Maybe, Ancelotti wants to give Mbappe another “powerful weapon”.
Also related to selection for Real’s set-piece situations, according to Marca, next season Arda Guler is given priority to take corner kicks.
Last season, this role belonged to the legendary Toni Kroos. Ancelotti’s assignment to Guler must have had his reasons. Guler somewhat demonstrated his ability to take corner kicks by passing for Nicolas Paz to score a header in Real’s loss to Barca 2 days ago in the US.
Previously, the Turkish international showed off his corner kick ability at EURO 2024 when he assisted Demiral to score in the win over Austria. Behind Arda Guler in the top players prioritized for corner kicks are Modric, Valverde, Bellingham and Alaba.
