After the match, star striker Kylian Mbappe was very unhappy at the defeat. As per Marca<\/a>, he spoke in the mix zone about the poor performance, as well as explaining why he thinks Real Madrid have been below their best this season.<\/p>\n \u201cI have no clear explanation. We don\u2019t have continuity in the game, it\u2019s a problem that we have to solve. We can\u2019t be there every other day, this is not a champion team. It hurts a bit because we wanted to have February to improve, but we deserve the position we are in.<\/p>\n \u201cWe played terrible\u2026 Then losing 3-2, the fourth goal doesn\u2019t change anything, it\u2019s a bit embarrassing, but it doesn\u2019t change anything. Last week we played good games, but not now and we have to have continuity. We lack a little bit of everything. I\u2019m not going to say that it\u2019s just a problem of attitude or only of football, I think it\u2019s a general issue and in the Champions League every detail is important. If you don\u2019t come with everything to win a game\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Real Madrid return to La Liga action on Sunday with a home match against Rayo Vallecano, and Mbappe wants those in attendance to be on the players\u2019 side.<\/p>\n \u201cI ask the Bernabeu to go with the desire to support the team. We are not eliminated and in La Liga we are in a good dynamic. If the Bernabeu is with us we will play a good game on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Kylian Mbappe slams Real Madrid after Benfica defeat – “This is not a champion team”<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid brought their league phase campaign to a disappointing end on Wednesday, as they lost 4-2 to Benfica in Lisbon. That result…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4771,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/4771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/sl-benfica-v-real-madrid-cf-uefa-champions-league-2025-26-league-phase-md8-2-1-scaled.jpg\")
Mbappe issues rallying cry to Real Madrid supporters<\/h2>\n