Real Madrid to ‘push deadline’ for Mbappe to make Atletico Super Cup return

Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe is retired of Sunday’s Real Betis clash successful La Liga, but could beryllium accelerated tracked for instrumentality successful Atletico Super Cup derby.

Real Madrid guardant Kylian ‌Mbappe volition miss Sunday’s La Liga location crippled against Real Betis owed ‍to a genu ‍injury but is pushing to beryllium disposable for adjacent week’s Spanish Super Cup semifinal against Atletico Madrid, manager Xabi Alonso has said.

The 27-year-old France captain, who equalled Cristiano Ronaldo’s nine grounds of 59 ⁠goals successful a calendar twelvemonth for Real successful their 2-0 La Liga triumph implicit Sevilla ​on December 20, has a sprain successful his near knee.

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The archetypal presumption was that specified an wounded would mean a spell of astatine slightest 3 weeks connected the sidelines.

“We’ll ‍definitely miss Kylian,” Alonso told reporters connected Saturday. “We person to person a batch of religion successful those who are going to play tomorrow.

“Now we’ll see. We person to hold and spot however things ‍develop, and ⁠we’ll bash everything we tin to get him backmost arsenic soon arsenic possible.

“We’re going to beryllium pushing the deadlines; it’s precise overmuch a substance of feelings. When is arsenic soon arsenic possible? That’s the question. I don’t know. The Super Cup? We hope.”

Alonso’s men were 5 points wide astatine the apical earlier their signifier took a downturn successful November. They ​drew 3 league games successful a enactment earlier suffering ‌a daze nonaccomplishment to Celta Vigo astatine location successful December, allowing defending champions Barcelona to surge 4 points up successful the rubric race.

Real’s dip successful signifier has coincided with a goalless tally ‌for guardant Vinicius Jr. The 25-year-old Brazilian winger, who scored 22 goals past season, has struck conscionable 5 times ‌across each competitions this word and has not ⁠found the nett since October.

When asked however Vinicius is doing aft being booed by a conception of fans successful their past lucifer against Sevilla astatine the Bernabeu, Alonso said: “Vini looks good to me, ‌cheerful and smiling. The interruption has been bully for each of america to recharge our batteries.

“Tomorrow, we are the ones who person to springiness successful bid to ‍receive, to dispersed that enthusiasm and bushed that we need. If that flows successful some directions, we volition bask ourselves.”