By: Osabuohien Imuetinyanosa
France striker and captain of Les bleus welcomed back to the Madrid team against Pachuca in Doha after suffering from hamstring injury in the champion’s league match against Atalanta last week. Thereby missing Saturday’s 3-3 draw with Rayo Vallecano.
At 37 minutes Mbappe broke the silence of the match after setting up the standard against Pachuca as he began the damages and crumbling of the opponent defense line-ups, with a sharp reaction as he swept in from close range to master the brilliant quick pass from the left side of the opponent box to eventually break the deadlock, and kudos to the brilliant play from Vinicius Junior, winner of the FIFA Best Men’s Player of the Year award a day earlier after missing out on the Ballon d’Or, and Valverde and Bellingham could not be left out as they also form the pillars responsible for the goal.
At the clock of 53 minutes play Mbappe turned the table around yet again as he became the assist by providing to Rodrygo this time who took a swift pass from Mbappe and then run through with the ball finding his way to the edge of the penalty box and with an excellent effort he made an arc with the ball rocketting into the left corner of the net.
Real Madrid again was not done yet as they found their third in the 83rd minute of the final from the penalty spot, after Idrissi had fouled Vazquez inside the box, and the aid of the VAR decision was made in favour of los bloncos. Then Vinicius creatively converted the penalty with so much force that the ball went through even though the goal keeper had his hand on it.
Man of the match award went to Kylian Mbappe who has had his fair share of so much bullets of criticism fired at him this season without escaping any. but the Frenchman has started putting himself together to always stand out as he was absolutely brilliant duringj 62 minutes on the field on Wednesday, causing the defensive of the opponent to find no rest all through and making the breakthrough in the 37th minutes and yet stagging Rodrygo with a comfortable posture to drive home a first class curve into the opponent net to have a 2-0 lead in the second half
