Revealed: How Real Madrid Supporters Reacted to Kylian Mbappé’s Offside Calls

Despite being early in the season, the former PSG player might be wearing Real Madrid fan’s patience as he adapts to a new squad and league. After the loss, ESPN FC’s Sid Lowe spoke about how the supporters reacted to the winger being caught offside on several occasions.

“It’s difficult to give you a really clear answer on that because I don’t think that we saw a unanimous reaction,” Lowe said Saturday on ESPN FC. “Obviously, the fundamental thing is we saw a frustration.

“I think the fundamental thing is we saw a sense of disbelief because if anybody should be finishing his chances often, if anybody should be able to know how to run a line, particularly, it’s Mbappé, not just because he’s obviously a brilliant forward and quite possibly the best player in the world, but also because of the nature of his game, the speed that he has, the awareness of that speed that he has, means that surely timing his runs is something that he has been through a million times in his career.

“There was, I think, a frustration and kind of a disbelief. There was a little bit of edgy as the game went on, a little bit of a sense of getting irritated with him, a little bit of a sense of thinking, ‘Come on, this is a really poor performance.’ But it didn’t reach the point, I don’t think, of people turning on him. I think it would be much too much to suggest that that was the case.”