Mute for three matches with Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappé made up for it on Wednesday. Taking advantage of the Merengue’s trip to Athens, the French world champion scored all four of his team’s goals against Olympiakos. Enough to allow the Madrid club to win (4-3) and move forward three weeks after their defeat against Liverpool.
If it was the Greeks who opened the scoring, Kylian Mbappé’s response was brutal with three goals scored in just 6 minutes and 42 seconds (22nd, 24th, 29th). In the history of the Champions League, only one player has been faster to score a hat-trick: Mohamed Salah, who only needed 6 minutes and 12 seconds to score three goals for Rangers in 2022 (7-1).
But Kylian Mbappé did not stop there and therefore added a fourth goal after the break. A first in the Champions League. The former Parisian is also only the third French player to score a quadruple in C1 after Bafétimbi Gomis with Olympique Lyonnais against Dinamo Zagreb on December 7, 2011 and Olivier Giroud with Chelsea against Sevilla FC on December 2, 2020.
Unheard of since 1958
Kylian Mbappé never stops panicking the counters. Top scorer in the Champions League, the Frenchman has already scored 9 goals in five matches, which already constitutes his record over a season. And with now 59 goals, he is also the most prolific French striker over a year since Just Fontaine, author of 66 goals in 1958.
However, the former Bondynois did not boast at the end of the meeting, refusing the idea of Mbappé-dependence on Real Madrid. “It’s a term for journalists. Each player has his role in the team, my job is to score goals, he said. But I can also say that without the other players we would not win. When we don’t win, you have the right to say that I am one of the responsible ones, but don’t talk to me about “dependency”. »
