Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti has urged Kylian Mbappe to focus on scoring goals for the club instead of pressing to help the team.
The defending champions will take on Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday in a repeat of last season’s Champions League final.
The Spanish and European champions have not been at their peak this season and are still looking for the best way to incorporate Mbappe into the team alongside their other superstars
Ancelotti is demanding more goals from their latest high profile signing, who joined the club on a free transfer in the summer from PSG.
He said: “I prefer that (Mbappe) scores goals than he presses.
“The central striker position in our team has not changed, I ask him the same I asked of Karim (Benzema, who left in 2023).
“To be well positioned and to be ready every time we get the ball back to make a rapid transition.”
Mbappe has scored eight goals for Madrid in 12 games across all competitions this season.
Due to Mbappe’s arrival, Bellingham has taken up a more defensive role to accommodate him and the other attacking stars at the club.
The former Borussia Dortmund midfielder is yet to score for the club this season in nine games, after netting 10 in his first 10 appearances last year.
Ancelotti revealed that he is satisfied with Bellingham’s performance despite his goal drought this season.
He said “We’re satisfied with his work because he works a lot on the pitch, he’s always there, he competes, fights, sacrifices himself.
“The truth is he hasn’t scored the goals he did last year, but the surprise isn’t this year, it’s last year, he scored a heap of goals that no-one expected.
“We’ve always scored goals and we’ll always score goals, we have players with great attacking talent up front. So, for us at this moment, the work he is doing is much more important for us.
“I want (rock and roll football) because I have players with these characteristics.
“We find it harder to play a game based on possession and control because we don’t have players with characteristics to play in reduced spaces.
“A back and forth game suits us well, but we’re focussed on defending better as we did very well last year.”
Real Madrid are currently unbeaten in the Spanish Liga and they trail table-toppers, Barcelona by three points ahead of the El Classico on Saturday.