Olivier Giroud, it's official!

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

Kylian Mbappé is decidedly in great shape. Three times scorer with Real Madrid in three games, Le Bondynois kept the pace in the French team. Author of the second French goal, Friday, against Ukraine, the world champion indeed gave this against Iceland at the Parc des Princes, even being doubly decisive.

Taking advantage of a penalty following a fault in the surface on Marcus Thuram, the former Parisian first equalized at the very end of the first period. And at the time of play, after several missed transmissions, he delivered a gold pass for Bradley Barcola on a counterattack, allowing the Blues to take the advantage.

With a goal and a decisive pass, Kylian Mbappé was obviously one of the main craftsmen of the Blues' victory (2-1). But thanks to this new achievement, the Madrid has treated its statistics. Because with now 52 goals on the clock, he exceeded Thierry Henry for good and therefore became the second top scorer in the history of the French team.

Kylian Mbappé a Olivier Giroud in his viewfinder

“I knew, it's cool, I'm very happy,
He was delighted at the end of the meeting at the microphone of TF1. I'm going to talk about Titi (Henry) again because he's an extraordinary player, he's a living legend … going in front of him is really great. »»

But Kylian Mbappé now has another goal in mind: to go beyond Olivier Giroud and his 57 goals among the Blues. “There is still one person to go beyond I think so I'm not going to party too much (laughs). There is still a job ”he launched, already turned to the next deadlines with the French team: the trip to Iceland and the reception of Azerbaijan in October.