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PIX: Emotional Mbappe makes dream Real start

August 15, 2024 14:03 IST

IMAGE: Kylian Mbappe with the trophy as he along with his Real Madrid team-mates celebrate after beating Atalanta in the European Super Cup final in Warsaw on Wednesday. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters

Kylian Mbappe could not have anticipated a better start to his Real Madrid career as he scored a debut goal to help his new team win the European Super Cup on Wednesday.

 

Mbappe fired the ball into the top corner from Jude Bellingham's pass to double Real's lead in a 2-0 victory over Atalanta.

IMAGE: Kylian Mbappe scored on his Real Madrid debut to double their lead in the 69th minute. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters

"Before the game, we didn't even talk about (whether he would score), we just expected it to happen," man-of-the match Bellingham told reporters.

"It's a kind of player who writes his own history... Time and time again, he delivers for his team and he did it again tonight."

IMAGE: This was a record-equalling 14th major trophy won by Real Madrid under coach Carlo Ancelotti. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters

Mbappe, who scored 44 goals for Paris St Germain last season, clinched his first European trophy after winning seven Ligue 1 titles with PSG and Monaco.

He previously came closest to European glory in 2019-20, when PSG finished Champions League runners-up after losing the final 1-0 to Bayern Munich.



"Mbappe did really well, he adapted really well to the team" Real coach Carlo Ancelotti said.

"He combined well with Vinicius Junior and with Bellingham. Of course, we have a lot of quality, but we have to play together and we did that tonight."

After joyfully posing with his first continental silverware, Mbappe appeared overwhelmed by emotion.



"It was a great night. It's a great moment for me. And we won a title, which is important – at Madrid you always have to win," he said.

"I am very happy. And with the goal too – it is important for a striker like me. But the most important thing has been to have the pleasure of playing with this team."

Mbappe also helped Ancelotti become the coach who has brought the most major trophies to Real Madrid, the Italian levelling the tally of 14 by Miguel Munoz who managed the Spanish giants from 1948-58.

Source: REUTERS
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