"Mbappé came off the bench as Madrid beat Oviedo 2-0 - and was greeted by loud whistles from the Santiago Bernabeu crowd - and set up the second goal for Jude Bellingham. The real drama was still to come, though, with the France striker making his frustration clear in the mixed zone. Mbappe has only just returned to full fitness after a hamstring problem but was baffled as to why he was not in the starting XI. "I'm well, I'm 100%," Mbappe said. "I didn't play because the coach told me I'm the fourth-choice forward in the squad behind [Franco] Mastantuono, Vinicius [Junior] and Gonzalo [Garcia]. I accept it and play the time I'm given. I think I played well.""
""I was ready to start. I'm not angry with the manager. You always have to respect a coach's decision. I'll work hard to get back into the starting line-up." That claim was vigorously denied by Arbeloa, who claimed he said: "I didn't say that phrase to him. I would like to have four strikers, he must not have understood me well.""
"Mbappe's next barb was to suggest Madrid have got worse following the sacking of Xabi Alonso in January. "We started the season well, in the league, in the Champions League... but we lost it in the second half," said the former Paris Saint-Germain striker. "And it hurts a lot, because I feel that we had a game structure and we let it go." When that was put to Arbeloa, he replied: "I think it would be good for him to think that he scored many more goals in the first half of the season than in the second.""
"Mbappe insisted he was happy in Madrid and had no intention of leaving and also claimed to have no problem with Arbeloa. "You have to respect him. You have to ac"
Mbappé appeared as a substitute as Real Madrid beat Oviedo 2-0, drawing loud whistles and assisting the build-up to Jude Bellingham’s second goal. After the match, Mbappé expressed frustration in the mixed zone, saying he was fully fit and questioning why he was not in the starting XI. He claimed the coach told him he was the fourth-choice forward behind Franco Mastantuono, Vinicius Junior, and Gonzalo Garcia, and said he would work to return to the lineup. Arbeloa denied saying the quoted phrase and suggested Mbappé misunderstood him. Mbappé also linked Madrid’s decline to the sacking of Xabi Alonso, while Arbeloa responded by pointing to Mbappé’s first-half versus second-half scoring output.
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