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Real Madrid Target Mbappe Leaves Future Open And Takes Blame For PSG UCL Exit

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Real Madrid target Kylian Mbappe left his future open when asked if he had played his last Champions League game for Paris Saint-Germain.

In the same post-match appearance before the media, he also took the blame for his current employers' exit from the Champions League semifinals to Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund.

Again losing 1-0 at the Parc Des Princes as they had done a week ago in the Westfalenstadion, PSG hit the woodwork four times and crashed out on the continent by an aggregate score of 2-0.

Following the final whistle, Mbappe lamented that he "tried to help my team as best as I could" but "didn't do enough".

"When we talk about being efficient in the boxes, I think I'm the one targeted. I'm the guy who should score goals and be decisive. When things are good, I take all the limelight and when they are not, you have to take the shadow. That's not a problem.

"The first one who should have scored tonight was me. That's life and we have to move on, me and the team," he added.

Despite his side clipping the post and bar as much as it did across 30 shots, and also enjoying nearly 70% of possession, Mbappe didn't want to say that they were better than Dortmund or vice versa.

"I don't know if they were better than us. We don't need to denigrate them," Mbappe insisted.

"In my humble opinion, they were superior in the two boxes. They came once or twice in ours and scored. We went often in theirs and we never managed to score. It's a fact.

"I don't like to talk about being unlucky. When you are good, it doesn't hit the post, it goes in. Today we were not good enough - us, the attackers."

ESPN reported that Mbappe rolled his eyes and walked off when asked if he had played his last game in the Champions League for PSG.

Yet according to SPORT, the Ballon d'Or hopeful said "this season, for sure", in an answer that some could interpret as leaving his future open.

This summer, however, after his contract expires on June 30, it is widely expected that Mbappe will join 14-time winners of the competition Real Madrid on a free transfer.

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