Kylian Mbappé denies Real Madrid did MRI on wrong knee - ESPN

Kylian Mbappé denied reports that his knee injury was misdiagnosed after Real Madrid's medical team mistakenly examined the wrong knee as it sought to treat the problem.

A journalist for France's RMC Sport — followed by a number of Spanish media outlets — claimed on Tuesday that Madrid had failed to identify a partial ligament tear in his left knee in December, when they performed a scan on his healthy right knee instead.

Mbappé played three games with the team before he was eventually diagnosed with the injury, with Madrid releasing a medical report confirming a knee sprain on Dec. 31, followed by an update this month after he traveled to Paris to seek a second opinion, which saw him sidelined for over three weeks.

«The information that [Madrid] examined the wrong knee is not true,» Mbappé said on Wednesday, on international duty with France as they prepare to play a friendly against Brazil. «Perhaps I bear some indirect responsibility for the situation, because when you don't communicate about what you have and what is going on, it leaves the door open to interpretation, and everyone is rushing to fill in the blanks.

»Now, with Real Madrid, we've always had a communication that was quite clear, whether it was when I started my rehabilitation in Madrid, or when I was in Paris, where I was accompanied by the doctor, a physiotherapist and the club's physical trainer, where we worked from Paris, so there is no problem with that.

«We're in an important moment in the season. The team has been playing well without me. When I got injured, I wasn't available and people thought I was the only solution, but it wasn't like that. The important thing is the team.»

Mbappé first suffered the injury against Celta Vigo on Dec. 7 but