2023-11-19 16:36:00
Kylian Mbappé shortens the time as he now scores the furthest goals in the history of the Blues since a statistic exists in this area. His fabulous 44m lob, during the French team’s gargantuan victory on Saturday November 18 in Nice against Gibraltar (14-0), marked the 300th goal of his professional career. At 24 years and 333 days.
He is thus ahead of Léo Messi, who crossed this threshold at 25 years and 122 days and Cristiano Ronaldo, at 27 years and 91 days, to compare only with contemporaries. “There are players who have scored 800 goals, others 850. 300 goals compared to that is ridiculous. It’s a step and I want to continue to be decisive for my national team and my club,” he put into perspective on TF 1 after the meeting.
The striker remains on two hat-tricks in a row – Reims and Gibraltar – but it is especially with the Blues of which he became captain last March that the excitement turns into a pile-up. With 46 goals for the national team, he is eyeing the 51 pawns of Thierry Henry and the 56 of his elder Olivier Giroud, who is not going to stop there even if his horizon does not go beyond Euro 2024 for the moment.
With 18 goals in less than a year, from France-Australia at the opening of the World Cup on November 22, 2022 to his famous lob on Saturday, the crack player has just scored almost 40% of his total in the French team. As usual with him, it’s always faster, always higher and always louder.
“He is totally involved on the pitch and in his role as captain too”
The phenomenon had started before he took the armband – notably with his 8 goals in Doha in less than a month – but the phenomenon accelerates with the tissue around the biceps. “He is totally involved on the pitch and in his role as captain too,” rejoices Didier Deschamps. It’s a double win for the coach: it reinforces the social weight of the Parisian in A of which he is the major player and obtains better performance from his attacker. A triumph.
Echoing this, the media Kylian Mbappé of the week – press conference before Gibraltar; passage on TF1 afterwards – wanted to bring everything back to the collective and nothing to the individual. Perhaps Luis Enrique’s little dig after Reims (0-3), wanting more from him without expanding into which compartment exactly, remained suspended above his current performances. “I have teammates and coaches who always ask me for more. I am very happy that there is this requirement around me. I want to continue to progress,” replied the number 10 of the French team to Téléfoot.
His race for the Ballon d’Or launched perfectly
With 18 goals in 16 games since Toulouse-PSG (1-1) on August 19, he has perfectly launched his race for the Ballon d’Or as he goes through a paradoxical first end of the season. This is his best statistical start but he continues enchanting outings with unusual black holes like at Newcastle and Milan, very exposed matches. If he regains his regularity, he will accelerate his domination in Europe while his lob will go around the screens of Ballon d’Or voters, which can’t do any harm even if the Champions League then the Euro will decide only from the verdict.
With his two teams, he totals 46 goals in 2023 and follows two very serious competitors for the coronation: Harry Kane and Erling Haaland at 48 each to remain in Europe and in competitive championships, which excludes Cristiano Ronaldo, playing in Saudi Arabia. In the name of rotation and prudence in view of other club deadlines, the Parisian should only play part of the match in Greece this Tuesday. Perhaps enough to power this meter which runs constantly.
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