Brest (AFP)

In the heart of a summer envenomed by a missed Euro and questions about his future in Paris, Kylian Mbappé returned to basics by scoring again Friday night during the victory of PSG in Brest (4-2).

The anomaly is fixed.

Since 2017, Mbappé had scored in each game at the start of the season: a goal from a long shot in his first match in the Paris jersey in September 2017 in Metz (5-1), a double at Guingamp in August 2018 (3-1 ), a strike from the left in August 2019 against Nîmes (3-0).

In 2020, he caused and transformed a penalty in Nice (3-0), before recording a total of 7 goals and 4 assists in 6 L1 matches.

But while he missed his Euro, with 0 goal in 14 shots and a missed goal that sealed the elimination of the France team in the knockout stages, Mbappé did not have this year that two decisive passes to be put in their mouths in Troyes then against Strasbourg.

The first half hour in Brest started off in the same vein.

Well served by Ander Herrera in the back of the defense from the 4th minute, he collided with goalkeeper Marco Bizot, before being muzzled by Brest captain Brendan Chardonnet.

Kylian Mbappé scores the goal of the break for Paris against Stade Brestois, August 20, 2021 in Brest LOIC VENANCE AFP

And Marco Verratti (15th) then Mauro Icardi (21st) harvested two jewels of passes from Bondy kid in the area.

- Mute since June 2 -

After the opening of the score of Herrera (23rd), the deliverance came in the 36th for Mbappé, who tumbled in force to regain a header from a strike from Georginio Wijnaldum pushed back from the thigh by Lilian Brassier.

His last goal was on June 2, during a friendly match between the France team against Wales.

In front of the parking lot of enthusiastic Parisian supporters, all his teammates gathered around him to congratulate him.

Last week, his name was whistled at the Parc des Princes before the match against Strasbourg ...

Suddenly greedy, he almost doubled the bet on a long shot (40th) after a demonstration of speed and skill.

But it was the Brestois who reduced the mark on a ball he had lost, while he claimed a fault (42nd).

Thursday, his coach Mauricio Pochettino reiterated that he was counting on him this season, and assured that the young player lived "quietly" the rumors around his future.

But negotiations are dragging on between the world champion, under contract until 2022, and the Parisian leaders, who want to extend it to avoid seeing a player go free next year for whom they have paid 180 million euros to Monaco. .

The Parisians at the party on the first goal against Breste on his lawn, August 20, 2021 LOIC VENANCE AFP

According to the Spanish press, Real Madrid have not given up on trying to bring him in before the end of the transfer window on August 31.

But for the president of PSG Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, Mbappé has "no excuse" not to stay, given the five-star transfer window succeeded this summer by Paris.

While Lionel Messi and Neymar, still recovering, were not on the trip to Brest, Parisian supporters are now firmly awaiting their association in Mbappé to form the "MNM", which promises to be as formidable as the famous "MSN" "that the Brazilian and the Argentinean formed with Luis Suarez at FC Barcelona.

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