Mastantuono: Loose debut at the Champions League with Real Madrid
Franco Mastantuono debuted as a holder in the meeting between real Madrid and Olympique de Marseille in the First date of the League phase of the UEFA Champions League 2025/2026and had a discreet game at Santiago Bernabéu with a couple of clear opportunities to score a goal.
The 18 -year -old Argentine, who became the Youngest headline in the history of Real Madrid in Championshe only needed five minutes to start showing his desire to celebrate his first goal with the meringue shirt, but the stick denied it.
From that moment on, Mastantuono associated a lot with his teammates, but was inaccurate.
In the first part he had a shot from the outside of the area that went far from the arch that Gerónimo Rulli defended, but another of course came before the halftime.
After a good pass from Kylian Mbappé, Mastantuno completely received only inside the area to finish off and Rulli won the duel.
To the 63 minutesXabi Alonso decided to leave the court and instead entered Brahim Díaz.
Mastantuono numbers in their Champions League debut
As to The numbers who left Mastantuono’s performance in his debut in the UEFA Champions League, They were quite poor.
The best thing he had were his auctions to the arcas we mentioned earlier, but in the rest it was due.
In passes It was very inaccurate and only contreated 9 of 16 (56%)although He won several duels (6 of 11) To be in attack.
The worrying thing was the great Amount of balls he lost with a total of 12 times.
