Colossal Kylian Mbappé, who chose the prestigious stage of a classic against Marseille to join, with a double, Edinson Cavani as Paris Saint-Germain’s top scorer with 200 goals, during the 25th day of Ligue 1. A fifth against Pays de Cassel (7-0) in the Coupe de France, a pair against Lille (4-3) and another against OM, it is at this diabolical pace that the 2018 world champion devours another record, to only 24 years old.
His total is counted as follows: 136 in Ligue 1, 34 in the Champions League, 27 in the Coupe de France, 2 in the Coupe de la Ligue and 1 in the Champions Trophy. With his two goals in 30 minutes against OM (25th, 55th), two tumbles at full speed on passes from Lionel Messi, he joins the Uruguayan, who had scored his double hundred goals in seven years (2013-2020 ) when “Kyk’s” achieved it in five and a half seasons (since 2017).
“No need to motivate him”
This new record installs the kid from Bondy a little more in the legend of the club, where he extended this summer for two years after very long negotiations: Real Madrid dreamed of seeing him tackle the figures of the “White House” , the 450 goals of Cristiano Ronaldo, one of Mbappé’s role models.
The 2022 vice-world champion is heating up the “data centers” compiling statistics. “He scored 56 goals in 56 matches over the calendar year,” said his coach at PSG, Christophe Galtier. “He is one of those very great strikers, one of the best in the world, he is formatted to score goals” adds the technician.
Against the fans of Cassel, “Kylian did not abuse, was not obsessed, the goals came naturally, with combinations, good balls”, underlined the coach before joking: “To break records , I don’t need to motivate him!”
JPP’s equal in L1
Very keen on statistics, the prodigy could tackle another brand that seemed untouchable, if he remained several seasons at PSG, that of top scorer in the history of the French Championship, still held by the Argentinian Delio Onnis, who scored 299 times between 1971 and 1986, with Reims, Monaco, Tours and Toulon. Mbappé can already approach the second in the ranking, and first Frenchman, Bernard Lacombe, 255 goals over almost the same period, from 1970 to 1987, in Lyon, Saint-Étienne then Bordeaux.
The ex-Monegasque is already at 156 goals in L1, he has just equaled Jean-Pierre Papin (156 goals), 17th top scorer in history. In the France team, the candidate for the captaincy, after the international retirements of Hugo Lloris and Raphaël Varane, could not let Olivier Giroud (36) enjoy his title of top scorer in the history of the Blues (53 goals) for long. .
If the Milanese overtook Thierry Henry (51 goals) during the World Cup in Qatar, Mbappé is already at 36. That of selections, held by Lloris (145 caps) is a little further, but at 24 the prodigy pulverizes all passing times, with already 66 selections.
In Ligue 1, there remains a record that Mbappé has not touched, the septuplets of Jean Nicolas with FC Rouen (against Valenciennes in 1938, 9-1) and André Abegglen with Sochaux (again against VA in 1935, 12 -1). Otherwise, he will eat them all…