Real Madrid wants the win so Barca doesn't get too far behind, Mbappe: Defend a little, this could be a problem

Kylian Mbappe has spoken without the usual "fear" of press conferences.

"I'm tired of interviews. The journalist is there to make you say what you don't want to say and you don't want to say what he wants you to say. It's like a boxing match," the Real Madrid forward said at the beginning.

He also spoke about one of the criticisms that has accompanied him the most since arriving in Madrid.

"I'm a player who defends a little, less than others, and sometimes that can be a problem. It's true that I do it less, but I notice that when I do it, it really affects the team. In Madrid, when I do it, you can say that everyone else does it too. They criticize me for it, and that doesn't bother me, because it's constructive criticism."

Mbappe recounted what he experienced after missing the decisive penalty against Switzerland at Euro 2021. "I wanted to leave the French national team. I realized that I had put France very, very high on my priorities, but as soon as I failed, a lot of people started calling me a monkey and insulting me. And I asked myself: are these the people I fight for on the pitch?" He described his subsequent vacation as that of "a dead man walking."

"I fell from a very high place, because my first tournament with France was the 2018 World Cup, I won it, I was a kind of national hero, I was very young. And in the next tournament you have it in your face. It's difficult, because people are waiting." He went to the president of the French Federation and told him bluntly that he didn't want to play for France anymore. The answer stopped him. "Do you really think I'm going to let you leave this office?" he replied, laughing. "I don't forget things."

At the 2022 World Cup, he and Hakimi experienced a special situation. "We played 'Football Manager' together and called each other every day. The further we went, the more we realized that we could face each other. He told me 'we'll pass' and I said 'us too'. But in the semi-finals there were no more passes. We kept talking, but with a 'hmmm' in the air". The easiest moment came with the driver's license story. Mbappe wanted to take the car out to Paris, but it was very complicated. In Madrid they found the formula to do it in a kind of private session. 'He paid'. The teacher, to make matters worse, was an Atletico fan, but he gave me the license out of spite", concluded Mbappe.

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