These are only figures or statistics – in today's football that is perhaps more spectacular (and with more matches) – but comparing Kylian Mbappé to the old ones allows us to measure the completely crazy career that the Bondy prodigy is leading. The top scorer in PSG history (235 goals) will soon be the Blues' top scorer at 26 years old. With 53 goals on the clock, he has surpassed Thierry Henry by two points and is only four lengths behind Olivier Giroud.
Mbappé also equaled “Titi” Henry in number of goals scored in the five major championships. And it's quite a performance from Real Madrid's star number 10, who scored his 11th goal of the season in La Liga during the Clasico won against Barça (2-1) on Sunday at the Bernabéu.
In third place in the ranking of French scorers in European championships, the two players from INF Clairefontaine and AS Monaco have 233 goals. Mbappé has scored 191 times in L1 with the Rocher club then the capital and is at 42 goles in the Spanish league.
Benzema and Lacombe well ahead of Henry and Mbappé
Titi first scored 20 goals with AS Monaco (while he was still playing as a winger), three with Juventus (sometimes playing on the left), then 174 goals with Arsenal, where he became a Premier League legend, and 35 in La Liga with Barça under the orders of Frank Rijkaard then Pep Guardiola.
Karim Benzema and Bernard Lacombe, both launched by OL, are the two top French scorers in the five major championships, with 281 and 255 goals on the clock. The 2022 Ballon d'Or has scored 43 goals in D1 with his training club and 238 in 14 La Liga seasons with the Merengues. Lacombe, who died last June at the age of 72, only played in France to compile 123 league goals with Olympique Lyonnais, 14 with AS Saint-Etienne and 118 with the Girondins de Bordeaux.
