AAfter the American tour, an entertainment company with more marketing than real football, even if it consumes everything equally, the serious thing finally begins. In five days, in Warsaw, the European Super Cup against Atalanta. The first official match of the season, the first title in the game and the debut of Mbappe. Serious things start, I say, and that’s why it seems like a joke to me that the best football player in the world will not have a start. Q, since Ancelotti is in favor of the Super Cup being a kind of tribute to the footballers who won the right to play it and that’s why they should be the novices. Indeed, the other repeated after one of the friendly matches: “the players who won the Champions League should play the Super Cup. The missing Nikos are Nacho and cross. Mbappe could be in the Super Cup eleven, obviously. Billingham too and the others too. They are ready, they have followed a plan and they will all play.”
But , I insist, it does not seem serious to me that Mbappe could be a substitute for merkols with a title in dispute, as some of valdipipas point out. It’s very nice to reward the players and start managing the good atmosphere in the dressing room, but you also have to manage what the fans want. And what the president wants, by the way. What is to see Mbappe as a start after many years of waiting. Logic suggests that the losses of Nacho and cross were covered in those first eleven with Militao and Modric. But following the same logical reasoning, if you have the best attacker available, then you should use it.
It is the first of many decisions Ancelotti will have to make this season. The technician already knows that, except for an unfortunate incident in the form of injuries from here to the end of the market, the club will not sign the center-back. They are also not going to divorce themselves after Davies, a process that has been postponed for next year, with the risk that his loss entails (see euro case). So, although Carlo considers that he lacks troops in the rear (he has no Alaba for several months after his mission), he faced the September season with what he has. And it’s probably the best Real Madrid team in its entire history, Ah, it’s nothing. So much so that what can cause you the most headaches is managing the distribution of minutes from the midline onwards. Because the thing about rotations and “individual breaks” that you have declared is very good as a theory. But then there are games, the big ones, that all the good ones want to play. And the Super Cup is one of them.
