'Mbappe needs to feel the love'published at 09:27 Greenwich Mean Time 18 December 2022
Argentina v France (15:00 GMT)
Julien Laurens
French football expert on BBC Radio 5 Live
With [Kylian] Mbappe the ambition and the drive is there like all the greats. What happened at Euro 2021 with him missing the penalty against Switzerland that knocked France out. The lack of support he felt after that kind of disturbed him. But also, he wants to feel the love.
This is where he is a little bit different to Leo [Messi] but maybe close to Cristiano [Ronaldo] in the sense that even if he is amongst the greatest players right now and he knows it, he still feels the need of people telling him how great he is and how much they love him.