{"id":19433,"date":"2024-07-04T07:04:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T07:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kylian-mbappe-vs-cristiano-ronaldo-real-madrid-icons-past-and-future-meet-as-france-play-portugal-at-euro-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T07:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T07:04:05","slug":"kylian-mbappe-vs-cristiano-ronaldo-real-madrid-icons-past-and-future-meet-as-france-play-portugal-at-euro-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kylian-mbappe-vs-cristiano-ronaldo-real-madrid-icons-past-and-future-meet-as-france-play-portugal-at-euro-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe vs Cristiano Ronaldo: Real Madrid icons past and future meet as France play Portugal at Euro 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Off the pitch, Mbappe has some catching up to do. Ronaldo remains an icon in Madrid, has a hotel bearing the CR7 branding in the city, attracts more than half a billion followers across his social media accounts and even has a galaxy named after him.<\/a><\/p>\n

But Mbappe, having been the star attraction and huge selling point of PSG during his time there, will be placed on a similar pedestal once he arrives in Madrid.<\/p>\n

Before all those bells, whistles and social media debates, the small matter of a Euro 2024 quarter-final.<\/p>\n

Neither man has set the tournament alight so far. Mbappe looks hampered by a range of issues \u2013 including a broken nose<\/a> from the opening game against Austria and having to play in the discomfort and distraction of a protective mask.<\/p>\n

France\u2019s style of play, as evidenced by their lacklustre last-16 win over Belgium, is characterised by stodginess and a need for everything promising in attack to go through Mbappe. When he is crowded out or out of form, the system does not work \u2013 leading to the pre-tournament favourites failing to score from open play in four matches in Germany.<\/p>\n

Questions of Ronaldo, meanwhile, focus around whether he should even start after two below-par, goalless showings against relative minnows Georgia and Slovenia, where at times the bright attacking talent Portugal possess seemed actively hampered by the presence of a man more than a decade older than his team-mates.<\/p>\n

Will such a grand occasion as this quarter-final bring the best out of one or both of these men? We wait with baited breath.<\/p>\n

If it is Mbappe who comes out on top, the journey from doe-eyed child admiring posters of Ronaldo to being the sport’s undisputed poster boy will surely be complete.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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