{"id":246651,"date":"2024-11-06T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/06\/benzema-advises-mbappe-to-adapt\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:38:08","slug":"benzema-advises-mbappe-to-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/06\/benzema-advises-mbappe-to-adapt\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzema Advises Mbappe To Adapt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kylian Mbappe with Karim Benzema<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kylian Mbappe must learn to play as a central striker at Real Madrid because he will not be able to displace Vinicius Junior on the left, the club\u2019s former forward Karim Benzema says.<\/p>\n<p>France star Mbappe, who joined Real after his Paris St-Germain contract ended in July, has eight goals in 14 appearances for his new club but has scored just once in his past five games.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old\u2019s favoured position is on the left wing, but manager Carlo Ancelotti has kept Brazil international Vinicius in that position, forcing Mbappe to play centrally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem, in my opinion, is that [Mbappe] is not a central striker, even with the national team, every time he plays as a number nine he doesn\u2019t feel right, because that\u2019s not his position,\u201d former France striker Benzema said on Spanish television show El Chiringuito.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the left, he\u2019s got a guy who\u2019s at the same level as him, Vinicius, so there is a problem, you can\u2019t play Vinicius as a number nine or on the right, because when he plays on the left he makes the difference in every game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMbappe isn\u2019t a real number nine. People ask a lot of him and he\u2019s under a lot of pressure, this isn\u2019t Paris St-Germain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benzema is Real\u2019s second-highest scorer of all time, behind Cristiano Ronaldo, and the Frenchman won the Ballon d\u2019Or when at the club in 2022 before signing for Saudi Arabian side Al-Ittihad last year.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old, winner of five Champions Leagues and four La Liga titles during 14 seasons at the Bernabeu, warned Mbappe that \u201cif you go two or three games without a goal, you\u2019re going to have a lot of problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbappe with Karim Benzema \u00a0 Kylian Mbappe must learn to play as a central striker at Real Madrid because he will not be able to displace Vinicius Junior on the left, the club\u2019s former forward Karim Benzema says. France star Mbappe, who joined Real after his Paris St-Germain contract ended in July, has eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benzema Advises Mbappe To Adapt - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/06\/benzema-advises-mbappe-to-adapt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benzema Advises Mbappe To Adapt - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kylian Mbappe with Karim Benzema \u00a0 Kylian Mbappe must learn to play as a central striker at Real Madrid because he will not be able to displace Vinicius Junior on the left, the club\u2019s former forward Karim Benzema says. 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