2023-11-11 20:58:36
The supporters of the Auguste-Delaune stadium in Reims, in hindsight, may not have been very inspired to welcome each of his first touches of the ball with loud whistles. Because we think back, after the fact, inevitably to this sentence pronounced in 2018 which had helped build the foundations of his legend. “Aren’t you happy? Triple.”
“I was younger, I am much calmer and calmer,” he laughed, when asked about this sentence on Prime Video’s microphone. Of course, it feels good to score a hat-trick, but the most important thing is to have a good feeling in the game. In all humility, I don’t need to play well to score, but I want to play well AND score. »
Thanks in particular to the hat-trick of @KMbappe and at the stops of @donnarumma, the Parisians won in Reims to take the lead in Ligue 1 (0-3)! The victory report. ⤵️ ????️#SDRPSG
— Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) November 11, 2023
Playing well and scoring, Kylian Mbappé actually does it regularly but it had been fifteen months since he had shaken the net three times in a Ligue 1 match (during the 7-1 against Lille, in August 2022 ), almost a year in all competitions (a quintuple against Pays de Cassel in the Coupe de France, in January).
In a match that had all the trappings against the attractive 4th in Ligue 1, coming out of a lukewarm performance for the Parisians in Milan, a match through which the Bondynois had completely passed, Mbappé therefore scored this victory (3-0) of his iron. Auguste-Delaune is not San Siro: 2 minutes 35 on the clock, Mbappé waits wisely at the far post until Ousmane Dembélé has finished having fun with Thibault de Smet and sends him a perfect cross, which he takes with a uncrossed volley in the small net of Yehvann Diouf (0-1, 3rd). First offering from number 10 for his big friend, number 7, in the Parisian jersey.
A second period with fanfare
A good start, but Mbappé was especially unleashed after the break. An event pushed him there: Luis Enrique’s decision to bring out Gonçalo Ramos, once again unconvincing on the attacking front. Of Mbappé’s 9 shots in this match (5 on target), 6 came after returning from the locker room. The Bondynois is untenable on the attacking front, makes the opposing defenders dizzy and it is in two similar situations that he crashes twice, enhancing the good climbs of Soler (0-2, 59th) and Barcola (0-3, 82nd) right side by sharp calls in the axis.
A change which should be unanimous, especially since the Parisian number 7 could have added a fourth goal to his personal statistics for the evening if he had improved his good dribbling on Diouf (84th) or if the bar had not repelled his powerful strike at the end of the match (86th). But that would be a poor way to know Luis Enrique, who couldn’t help but push his player to his limits after the match, at Prime’s microphone: “I’m not really happy with Kylian Mbappé today, a- he asserted. On the goals, I have nothing to say. But he can help the team more, in a different way. I’ll talk to him about it first, I’ll never tell you what it is because it’s private. We want him to do more things. » This Saturday evening in any case, he did the essential thing.
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