• Kylian Mbappé was the detonator on the three Parisian goals against Leipzig. 

  • Involved in 41 achievements since his Champions League debut with PSG, the international striker has been his team's lethal weapon for many months.

  • He perfectly masks the collective weaknesses of his team, still in great difficulty at times.

At the Parc des Princes,

The penalty missed in the last moments will have just been a scribble on the almost perfect copy of Kylian Mbappé.

First scorer, the French international striker will have been the great man of this match, even if it was Lionel Messi who scored twice.

Back on Kyky's crazy evening in four quarters, to celebrate the resumption of the NBA.

First quarter: the flat of the closed foot, a gift from the house

Before arriving at the goal itself, a reflection that must make everyone agree: is there something that messes more hair today than a Mbappé who receives a ball in the off-center depth just enough on the left side, apart from a Zemmour vs Mélenchon fight in an MMA cage, at a pinch? We were there in the action in the 10th minute of this strong training PSG-Leipzig, when we saw the drama take shape from afar for poor Gulasci. Kyky who sprints, Kyky who comes back inside, and Kyky who shuts his foot at the last moment. A finish that belongs to him, or almost, the inverted mirror of the flat of the foot of Titi Henry of the great time, a gesture which still brings him royalties in 2021 when the least striker of Bulgarian D3 will seek the small one opposite thread. It looks like a personal signature,the one that we will repeat in a loop in ten years, a tearful eye, when we launch the compilation "All 676 goals from Mbappé from Monaco to Real Madrid".

Second quarter: the science of passing

Now involved in 41 goals in C1 since his arrival at PSG in the summer of 2017, Mbappé will have to contribute a while to join the two mutants at the top of the ranking of the scorers of the event.

As for the assists, on the other hand, it will take less time.

The Frenchman already has 19 offerings, and the way he manages the tempo to serve Messi in the ideal timing on the 2-2 goal says it all about his excellent perception of the game, far from the caricatures that escort his career.

One day, we wrote “Kylian has a very interesting potential in the offensive passer / scorer diversity” and this is what Jean-Claude Lafargue, his trainer at the INF de Clairefontaine, replied: “Passeur he already was.

He was a goalscorer too, of course, but he was already scoring a lot of goals for his teammates.

Except that over time, depending on the positions he plays, and also the players he plays with, he still experiences a whole lot of things.

We tend to forget him but he is still young and I think he is still in a testing period.

The tests are progressing well, thank you.

Third quarter: great lord on the penalty spot

If his communication strategy can annoy, sometimes, let us recognize in Kylian Mbappé a certain freshness in his expression on the field, or around it.

This applies as much when he indulges in calling Neymar a tramp as when he naturally apostrophes Lionel Messi to give him the 3-2 penalty, with the little hint of arrogance that goes well in the wink that follows the "Take it Leo", captured by the cameras.

Bondy's frog got it right, especially since it always pays to be nice.

The Argentine returned the favor in stoppage time, but Gulasci must have looked a bit too much like Le Sommer to send such a warhead to the stands.

Mbappé telling Messi to take the penalty pic.twitter.com/GQv7yhNJdH

- Mbappe (@ Mbappegols1) October 19, 2021

“It's normal, he's the best player in the world and I've always said it was a privilege to see him play with us.

The first one, he must shoot it, “reacted the Frenchman to the microphone of the broadcaster.

It just goes to show that Pochettino was right when he told us that imposing a hierarchy of shooters was more of an obsession for the plumitives than for the staff.

Fourth quarter: "we do not play well", finally someone who assumes

Paris is at the top of its group and has won nine of its ten C1 matches, of course, but the balance sheet is not fooling anyone.

We therefore thank Mbappé for having spared us the usual salamalecs based on "we need time, we reacted well, the team has character" gnagnagnagnagna.

"It's true that we have to do better," Mbappé launched at RMC Sport's microphone.

For now, we are not playing well and we are winning.

I think we have to play better to win more calmly.

There are times when we were in weak times and we had to be a little lower, times when we were in their camp in possession.

Maybe we have to impose our style too, but there we were a little more in the adaptation.

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