2023-04-16 21:57:22
Not happy ? Record. Broken down against the opposing cages for three games, Kylian Mbappé did not leave Brice Samba’s cage alone, during the Parisian victory against Lens on Saturday (3-1). Racing was the only elite club to have resisted him during his career, except PSG against which he never scored when he played in Monaco (2015-2018). Against the Sang et Or, the striker scored his 139th goal with Paris in Ligue 1. He is now the club’s top scorer in the first division, an achievement ahead of Edinson Cavani.
A month and a half ago, the Bondynois had already relegated the Uruguayan to the second step of the hierarchy of the best scorers in the history of Paris-Saint Germain. At only 24 years old, the 2018 world champion has collected 203 goals with the capital club and already has a lot of impressive statistics.
PSG’s fastest scorer in Ligue 1 (8 seconds against Lille), Mbappé is also the first Parisian to have scored a quintuple, against the Pays de Cassel in the Coupe de France. Author of 34 goals in the Champions League, he was already the most prolific striker in Paris in the European Cup. If he continues in Île-de-France next year, he should be able to aim for the record of goals in the Coupe de France internal to the Ile-de-France team. François M’Pelé scored 28 times in this competition with PSG. Mbappé only lurks one unit behind.
It will also be a question of not moving away from the Parc des Princes to match certain marks of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Swede had scored 50 goals in the 2015-2016 season. Exercise during which he traumatized the goalkeepers of the French Championship: the 1.95m striker had remotely controlled 38 balls between the opposing posts in the space of 31 games. So far, Mbappé has not “done better” than 42 goals in all competitions in 2020-2021 and 33 units in L 1, in 2018-2019.
He is only one goal away from “JPP”
With 32 goals this season, including 20 in the league, the striker is likely to remain short at the end of the current exercise. Cavani also remains the darling of the penalty areas of the Parc des Princes. The former Parisian has compiled 110 goals on the pre Ile-de-France, 15 more than the former Monegasque. The latter therefore shines more on the outside. He scored 106 times away from the Parisian base, not counting the matches played on neutral ground.
At the level of the French Championship, Mbappé should also need at least one more season to scratch the door of the Top 10 of the best scorers in the history of D 1. Between Monaco and Paris, the Parisian number 7 scored 155 times, one less than Jean-Pierre Papin, 17th in this ranking. In ten years in France, the Swede Gunnar Andersson has scored 179 goals for Marseille and Bordeaux and is in tenth place in this ranking, 24 units ahead of Bondy’s crack. Mbappé could try to dislodge him next season, which would allow him to get ahead of other legends like Alain Giresse (163 goals) or Just Fontaine (164 goals).
But although he takes care of his finish, the French international also takes advantage of the attraction exerted on the defenders to pamper his partners. The Bondynois slipped 83 assists to his Parisian teammates. This time, he appears quite far in the rear view mirror of Angel Di Maria, PSG’s largest caviar distributor with 112 offerings.
The vice-world champion is still the club’s third best passer. On the other hand, it is still very far from the 435 matches of Jean-Marc Pilorget under the Parisian colors. Mbappé’s 253 caps position him 13 lengths from the Top 20. His contract only runs until 2024, with an optional year for 2025. He would have to wait in the capital until 2027, at a rate of around 45 matches per season, to overtake Pilorget. Unless Marco Verratti (409 games) or Marquinhos (401 games) push this record even higher.
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