Paris (AFP)

Kylian Mbappé takes his momentum towards the shock against Barcelona: one of his lightning accelerations quickly put an end to the suspense in the "Classic" Marseille-Paris SG (0-2), Sunday at the Vélodrome for the 24th day of Ligue 1.

In his style.

Flashed at 36 km / h on the first goal (9th), perfectly launched by Angel Di Maria, he pierced the Marseille defense, as he hopes to deceive that of Barça in ten days in the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League.

Mbappé easily escaped the tackle of the Japanese Hiroki Sakai.

The "Samurai", exceeded, even withheld his gesture not to cause a penalty and risk exclusion.

"The feelings return, because I also connect", noted the player at the microphone of Canal +.

"I manage to finish the meetings better, I am less at the end of the roll, that's all + benef + for the future, hoping to gain strength."

The world champion finds his legs, in the position he likes: starting from his left side to swallow the spaces.

He brought water to the mill of the supporters of his positioning on this wing.

His new trainer has tried it at both positions since his arrival, leading in a two-man attack or in that three-way with left field in front of him.

"Starting from behind, he can find spaces and gain speed, he is more free," said Mauricio Pochettino after the victory against Nîmes, where Mbappé also scored.

In 4-4-2, "he has a little less space", admitted the Argentine coach, while saying "happy with his performance".

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Pochettino "seeks the best position so that each player exploits his talent", he added without wanting to reveal his preference to him.

Not necessarily at the top of his game since the arrival of the Argentinian on the bench, Mbappé still stacks the goals.

He signed his sixth staff in a Clasico.

If he had missed his very first OM-PSG, on October 22, 2017, coming close to defeat (2-2) after talking about a match like any other before, which he had been criticized for, "Kyky" took better the extent of the stake since.

He had scored on his return (3-0) that season, then scored a goal in each game the following season (3-0 at the Parc, 2-0 at the Vélodrome).

His greatest Classic remains that of last year (4-0), where he had signed a double, like Mauro Icardi, also the other scorer on Sunday night.

This statistics enthusiast remains by far the top scorer in L1 with 16 goals and has 108 in all in this jersey.

The Bondynois is only one unit away from the podium for PSG's top scorers, occupied by Pedro Pauleta (109 goals).

He remains a good distance from Zlatan Ibrahimovic (156 goals) and Edinson Cavani (200 goals), but is only 22 years old.

At the Vélodrome, the rest of his meeting was not, however, stunning.

He could have signed an assist if Icardi had been more skilful on this blow (47th).

He also seemed to bitch against himself after a failed pass (42nd), then delayed a little too long to serve Icardi on the next action, condemning his teammate to offside (43rd).

He also railed after a cross too far from Florenzi (61st) and was shaken "on a regular basis" by Boubacar Kamara (45th + 1).

In short, not a huge game, but with the right acceleration at the right time.

Decisive.

Exactly what it would take in Barcelona.

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