Kylian Mbappe had a fantastic debut season, but new team Real Madrid finished the season virtually empty-handed.
Real won 2-1 at home in the 36th round of the Spanish Primera Liga against Mallorca in the 2024-2025 season at Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid, Spain, on the 15th (Korea time), raising hopes for a come-from-behind victory. Mbappe scored a 1-1 score with an equalizer in the 23rd minute of the second half, and rookie Jacobo Ramon scored the theater winner in the 5th minute of extra time in the second half.
However, a day later, the championship race came to an end when Barceloga won 2-0 with consecutive goals from Lamine Yamal and Fermin López in Espanyol away. Barcelona, which had 85 points, widened the gap between second-place Real (78 points) to 7 with two games remaining, winning early and confirming its 28th career championship. For Real, losing two El Clasico this season led to a failure to win.
Real lost to Barcelona in the Copa del Rey final earlier, and failed to cross Arsenal's wall in the Champions League. The European Super Cup at the beginning of the season and the Intercontinental Cup in December are trophies that have been collected 'easy'. For the first time in four years since the 2020-2021 season, he has not won any of the La Liga, Copa del Rey or Champions League titles.
Mbappe was the only player who shone in a season that was defined as a failure for Real. Mbappe scored his 28th league goal of the season against Mallorca, breaking the La Liga record for the most goals in 71 years held by Alfredo Di Stefano. Di Stefano scored 27 goals in the 1953–1954 season while playing for Real.
Mbappe reached 39 goals with the El Clasico hat trick last time, breaking Ivan Samorano's record of most goals (including cup tournaments) in 32 years. Samorano played in 45 games and scored 37 goals in the 1992-93 season. He scored 40 goals (53 games) against Mallorca.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Mbappe's role model, scored 33 goals in his first season (2009-2010) when he moved from Manchester United to Real, seven goals short of Mbappe. This shows how outstanding Mbappe performed in the first season after overcoming the pressure. Mbappe, the current leading scorer, is expected to win the Pitch (Lariga Scoring Award) unless something big happens. He is three goals behind Robert Lewandowski (25 goals for Barcelona), who is ranking second in scoring. Mbappe wore a Paris Saint-Germain uniform and won the French Ligue 1 scoring title for six consecutive seasons from the 2018-2019 season to the 2023-2024 season.
Mbappe and the Real squad were in tears. Barcelona, on the other hand, led by 17-year-old supernova Lamine Yamal, ended the season with joy. Yamal has already won two La Liga titles at the age of 17. It took nine years for Ronaldo to win two La Liga championships.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
