Kylian Mbappé runs to embrace Luis Enrique during PSG’s celebrations for having won the Champions League semi-final. The French striker breaks away from the group and just wants to go towards his coach to thank him.
Double and PSG in the semifinals. Kylian Mbappe he once again had his way, dragging the Parisians to the penultimate act of the Champions League. The 4-1 over Barcelona iCatalonia drove the French crazy and they all celebrated this great achievement together on the pitch. Players and staff united in chants and shouts, but Luis Enrique was missing. The PSG coach had remained further behind, a little behind the group, allowing due credit to be given to his boys. However, something that didn’t go well for Mbappé.
And in fact a video in which you can see it has started circulating on social media the French striker suddenly breaks away from his teammates to reach his coach. She observed him, ran towards him and then they joined in a single, long hug. For a moment Mbappé left behind the hypothetical tensions that accompanied the striker’s last few months at PSG, ready to wear the Real Madrid shirt next year. Luis Enrique was enthusiastic on his face, appreciating that gesture very much.
Between substitutions and matches started from the bench, from February to today between Mbappé and Luis Enrique a case seems to have opened precisely around the management of the French striker by the Spanish coach. However, Luis Enrique has always made it clear that he has nothing against the player as well he ruled out that he could have insulted him after the substitution against Marseille played at the beginning of April in an important match for the Ligue 1 rankings. The image of Mbappé running towards Luis Enrique thus excludes everything.
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The player voluntarily wanted to break away from the group of his teammates only to run towards his coach. He hugged him and then Luis Enrique pleasantly let him go, patting him on the shoulder. A gesture of enormous impact, of great significance, which also highlights how Luis Enrique was able to create at PSG first a group and then a team which perhaps in recent years has been a little too overshadowed by champions who in the end are not never managed to make an impact.
