{"id":1458,"date":"2026-04-11T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/1458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:41:15","slug":"real-madrids-disastrous-results-directly-coincide-with-superstars-return-to-starting-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/1458\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid\u2019s disastrous results directly coincide with superstar\u2019s return to starting XI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kylian Mbappe\u2019s return from injury was expected to boost Real Madrid\u2019s squad and performances on the field, especially given how he has been the team\u2019s top goalscorer all season.<\/p>\n

Yet, the reality has been far from that and it is clear that the player\u2019s return has not seen the team pick up positive results in any capacity.<\/p>\n

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On the contrary, Real Madrid performed exceedingly well without him on the field, both in terms of results and their performances themselves.<\/p>\n

A stark difference<\/p>\n

Los Blancos played seven games across all competitions without Mbappe as a starter between February and March, of which they won six and lost just one.<\/p>\n

The last five games before Mbappe returned as a starter against Mallorca, in fact, ended in five straight wins for the club.<\/p>\n

In the games against Celta Vigo, Elche, Atletico Madrid and two games against Manchester City, Real Madrid scored 14 goals and conceded just five.<\/p>\n

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Real Madrid have failed to win three games in a row. (Photo by Alex Caparros\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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He returned as a starter against Mallorca after the international break and the team immediately slipped to a 2-1 defeat.<\/p>\n

The Merengues then lost by the same scoreline to Bayern Munich before earning just a draw against Girona<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n

Correlation may not imply causation, but it is clear that Mbappe\u2019s return has directly seen the results of the team take a turn for the worse. What action is taken given the findings, however, is a question for Alvaro Arbeloa to ponder deeply on.<\/p>\n

So far this season, the Frenchman has made 26 league appearances for Real Madrid and has a staggering 23 goals and four assists to show. He has created eight big chances and averages 2.2 key passes per game.<\/p>\n

The only downside of his involvement, however, is seemingly the lack of a constant work rate off the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe\u2019s return from injury was expected to boost Real Madrid\u2019s squad and performances on the field, especially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[179,266,829,1272,871,84,557,82,600,272,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-1458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-bayern-munich","10":"tag-celta-vigo","11":"tag-disastrous-results","12":"tag-elche","13":"tag-girona","14":"tag-kylian-mbappe","15":"tag-madrid","16":"tag-mallorca","17":"tag-manchester-city","18":"tag-real-madrid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}