After equaling his former teammate Edinson Cavani thanks to his double scored at the Vélodrome during the 25th day of Ligue 1, Kylian Mbappé became, on Saturday March 4, the top scorer in the history of PSG with his achievement against Nantes. A real feat for a player who joined the capital club in 2017 after appearing in the eyes of the general public with AS Monaco.
Over the years, Mbappé has overtaken the big names of the Parisian club like Raí, Susic, Pauleta or even Ibrahimovic. Ahead of everyone, it took him only 246 games to reach the symbolic bar of 200 achievements. For his part, Edinson Cavani had played 301 games with PSG to reach this total.
After his little physical glitch at the start of the year, Kylian Mbappé has returned to full speed. Christophe Galtier did not fail to emphasize how his player is in another dimension: “He is surely the best striker in the world. He goes fast, and he does everything fast. He knows how to be present in the big meetings, it is also the sign of the great players. With his hat-trick in the final of the last World Cup against Argentina, Mbappé had already made an impression. This sentiment has not changed in 2023.
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For Tripy Makonda, former Paris Saint-Germain player interviewed by Le Point, this goal record within the capital club gives even more legitimacy to the 2018 world champion. fast, it’s impressive. Each time he has this motivational endurance, he is a player who challenges himself. On the pitch, Mbappé knows what he has to do. It is sometimes difficult to maintain constant motivation, but he is aware of the records to be broken. “Current top scorer in Ligue 1 with 18 goals, the native of Bondy is still on schedule to equal and exceed his record for the 2018-2019 season with 33 goals.
Beyond the statistics, this is what Kylian Mbappé gives off, calling on Tripy Makonda, with an aura that impacts opposing teams and upsets the coaches’ plans. “He embodies the hope of being invincible, in the sense that when PSG have him in the last games, the atmosphere changes with him. We also had that with Ronaldo and Messi. He radiates this fear to his opponents, but he has remained the same. Football is a playground for him, he has a child’s soul but he has also assimilated it with performance. His game has not fundamentally changed with his intrinsic speed, but we can see that he has worked on the strikes a lot, with his own strengths. »
Now alone at the top of the ranking of Parisian scorers, Kylian Mbappé still has deadlines ahead of him to enter a little more into the Pantheon of Paris Saint-Germain. It’s hard not to think of the Champions League which eludes them again and again. The French striker was not far from being the hero, but his too crushed strike in August 2020 against Bayern in the final did not make the difference. But two and a half years later, Mbappé has changed a lot. The second leg against the same Bavarian team on Wednesday, after the 0-1 defeat in the first leg, gives him a perfect opportunity to assert his mark on PSG a little more.
