Author of the opener against Real Sociedad, Kylian Mbappé has further improved his statistics in the Champions League, a competition which is particularly successful for him.
Kylian Mbappé could have had the mask on when returning to the locker room after the first period against Real Socidad. And not only because of the service delivered by the Parisians. “ In the first half, we had difficulty getting out of the pressing. I think we could have added a little more personality because we had a numerical superiority in our camp, eight against six. We could have done a little better, but there you go, this is the learning of this team and we didn’t pay dearly for it “, he confided on this subject after the match.
The Bondynois probably still had the enormous opportunity missed in the first minutes of the match in his throat. Launched in depth by Ousmane Dembélé, the former Monegasque nevertheless presented himself alone in front of the goalkeeper but lost his face to face, having a firm hand to stop the world champion’s shot. And this complicated first period would undoubtedly not have been the same if Kylian Mbappé had materialized this opportunity.
Six units out of the Top 10!
The Parisian number 7 nevertheless caught up. Faster than his opposite number, Kylian Mbappé took advantage of a corner to open the scoring shortly before the hour mark. Staying at the far post, he emerged to transform Marquinhos’ deflection into an offering, leaving no luck to the goalkeeper. And while PSG took the advantage, before Bradley Barcola doubled the lead a few minutes later, he further panicked the counters in the Champions League.
At only 25 years old, Kylian Mbappé has now scored 44 goals in C1. Only one player has done better at his age: Lionel Messi, who already had 59 goals. But with 44 goals, he continues to climb the hierarchy of top scorers in the history of the Champions League. Now 16e, on the same line as Didier Drogba or Alessandro del Piero, the French striker has overtaken Neymar, whose tally has 43 goals in 81 matches. And he is only six points away from the Top 10…
But the main thing was obviously elsewhere. “We are happy with this first step, there is still a lot of work to do, but we are still leaving with a significant advantage”he confided after the match at the microphone of Canal+.
