10/7/2025–|Last update: 19:06 (Mecca time)
Brazilian Vinicius Junior and French Killian Mbappe (Real Madrid attack) are facing increasing criticism after the Royal team was excluded from the 2025 Club World Cup at the hands of Paris Saint -Germain.
Real Madrid bid farewell to the first expanded championship yesterday with its humiliating loss 0-4 against the Parisian giant in the match that took place at the Mettlif Stadium in New Jersey, in the semi-finals.
Despite the catastrophic errors of the Real Defense in the first 9 minutes, especially from Raul Asensio and Antonio Rudger, which cost him two goals and caused the team to completely collapse with the exception of goalkeeper Thibaut Crotoa, the shares of criticism focused more on Mbappe and Vinicius, according to the Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo.
The two players appeared throughout the match at a very frustrating level, as they were unable to form any danger to Gianluigi Donnaroma, Saint -Germain goalkeeper, and harmoniously missed them on the field.
The newspaper said that the new project for Real Madrid, led by coach Xabi Alonso, received the first harsh slap after some positive references about the team level in previous matches, at a time when Vinicius and Mbappe in particular were attacked due to their weak offensive impact and their lack of pressure.
It seems that Alonso has inherited the “bad habit”, which has received widespread criticism from the public and the Madrid media, for his Italian predecessor, Carlo Ancelotti, who was unable to last season 2024-2025 to find harmony between Mbappe and Vinicius.
This play between Vinícius and Mbappé is to cry, and then they don’t even go down to defend 😔pic.twitter.com/f23JFQWmuS
— REAL MADRID FANS 🤍 (@AdriRM33) July 10, 2025
Although Alonso insists on his desire to make all players attack and defend at the same time, Mbappe and Vinicius failed again to pressure, not only because of the lack of enthusiasm, but also due to the absence of coordination between them, according to the same newspaper.
Real Madrid tried to press the front with the aforementioned couple and the assistance of the young Gonzalo Garcia, but they did not succeed in confusing the ball out of the Saint -Germain players, who moved and transferred it as they wished, starting with Donnaroma to Osman Dembele.
The newspaper indicated that “the difference in high pressure between the two teams clearly showed the situation in which the Madrid and Saint -Germain project is going through.”
The numbers of Mbappe and Vinicius confirm the eligibility of a state of intense anger among the Real Madrid fans towards their performance. The first fought the full match and passed the ball only 12 times, and he made a single dodging and lost 8 balls, as he hit once on the goal, and won in the confrontation of one out of 5 confrontations.
As for Vinicius, whose level retreated months ago, he played 65 minutes before being replaced by Ibrahim Diaz, and he came out without any shot on the goal and only one paradigm and 10 successful passes while losing the ball 7 times.
The Spanish newspaper completed the praise of the Paris Saint-Germain team, which continues to achieve great victories and mediums on big teams in Europe such as Inter Milan 5-0 in the Champions League final, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid with the same result 4-0 in the World Cup clubs.
“No team is able to match it now,” she said of the team trained by Spanish Luis Enrique.