Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso hailed star forward Kylian Mbappe’s influence on the team ahead of the Los Blancos’s first major test in the UEFA Champions League this season against Juventus at the Santiago Bernabeu on Thursday.

Mbappe has started the season from where he left off, scoring 10 goals in nine La Liga games to go with five strikes in the first two UCL matches. However, Alonso believes Mbappe’s role in the team goes much further than that.