Kylian Mbappé has not scored for three games. A statistic that rarely happens to him, the last time being in the fall of 2021. Facing RC Lens this Saturday evening, Bondy’s crack must end this bad series to help his club win this eleventh French championship title. But Mbappé is a man of records and he might enter a very closed circle by the end of the season, if he finishes top scorer in Ligue 1.
For the moment, Kylian Mbappé is the top scorer in the championship, but the competition is very fierce this year. With 19 goals scored, he is tied with Alexandre Lacazette et To install Jonathan David. Folarin Balogun (18 goals) and Wissam Ben Yedder (17 goals) lurk behind the top three. Mbappé knows he will have to fight and he intends to do so.
Mbappé only fourth
For the moment, in the ranking of the record holder of the top scorers of Ligue 1, Kylian Mbappe is quietly installed in fourth place. Having finished top scorer four times in a row Ligue 1 (2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022), he is one unit ahead of the French Thadée Cisowski, the Yugoslavian Josip Skoblar, the Brazilian Sonny Anderson and the Swedish Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
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One more step to take
And Kylian Mbappe wins a fifth top scorer title Ligue 1, he will join a legendary trio. The quartet would then be composed of the French Mbappé, Jean-Pierre Papin and Argentinians Delio Onnis et Carlos Bianchi. So far, no one has done better than these three players, having finished top scorer five times in Ligue 1.
Two records in one
More Kylian Mbappe might also break another record if he finishes top scorer in the Ligue 1 this season. Among the three players who finished in the highest place in the scoring charts in the France championship, only Jean Pierre Papin was for five consecutive seasons (1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992). Kylian Mbappe is a man of records, he must necessarily have in mind these peaks to climb. And if his forward march resumed facing Lens ?
