2023-10-13 17:26:34
It is a successful team that Kylian Mbappé will find this Friday, October 13. Flashback: it is August 31, 2017, the now captain of the Blues is only in his fifth selection and starts the match against the Netherlands on the bench, but he will already open his account with the Blues .
Officially a Paris Saint-Germain player for a few hours, with a one-year loan with a purchase option of 180 million euros, crowned with his first start a few days earlier against Spain, the native of Bondy was came to close the offensive spectacle of the French team.
At the origin of the action, Kylian Mbappé had combined with Djibril Sidibé and concluded with a recovery without control of the right foot. Returning in the 75th minute in place of Olivier Giroud, the neo-Parisian then offered a fourth goal to the public at the Stade de France (91st). With a double from Thomas Lemar and a goal from Antoine Griezmann, the Blues won 4 goals to zero and gradually moved closer to qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.
“I wanted it since I was little”
“It’s a great evening,” the man who wore number 20 for the Blues at the time commented on FFF TV. It’s a source of pride to score for your country, especially in a match like this against a great nation. (…) I wanted it since I was little. I was watching the matches on TV and today it was me who scored. It’s a whole life that passes over twenty meters, twenty seconds. It’s beautiful, it’s beautiful.”
Kylian Mbappé was able to celebrate for the first time in the blue jersey and demonstrate his now legendary crossed arms, he who used to do it with AS Monaco. At just 18 years and 8 months, he became the youngest scorer for the French team since Georges Lech in 1963, then aged 18 years and 5 months.
Two more goals scored against the Netherlands in March
Since this meeting, Kylian Mbappé has scored again against the Dutch: a goal in September 2018 in the Nations League and two others last March during these same Euro 2024 qualifiers. In November 2018, still in the Nations League, the only other match between France and the Netherlands since this first goal ended in a defeat for the Blues who all remained silent (2-0).
Today, Kylian Mbappé occupies fifth place in the ranking of the French team’s top scorers – dominated by Olivier Giroud – with 40 goals. He is getting very dangerously close to Michel Platini, fourth with 41 goals. “It’s both an honor and the next target to take down,” he assured last March, when he was on his 38th goal with the France team. Michel Platini is an absolute legend, and will remain so whether I pass him today or tomorrow. Here I am, I’m going to continue my journey and it will go through Michel Platini.”
An objective which could be achieved this Friday evening at the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam and which could also, in the event of victory, allow the French team to move closer to qualifying for Euro 2024.
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