Striker Kylian Mbappe stands at the threshold of a historic achievement with Paris Saint-Germain, the leader of the French Football League, against its guest Nantes tomorrow, Saturday, in the 26th round, before the upcoming confrontation against its German host Bayern Munich in the second leg of the Champions League final.
The striker of the "Roosters" team, with his two goals during the 3-0 victory over Marseille in the last stage, raised his tally to 200 goals in the Qatari-owned Capital Club shirt, equaling his former Uruguayan colleague Edinson Cavani as the best scorer in the club's history.
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It is not excluded that Mbappe - who scored 4 goals in his last two matches after returning from injury - will visit the net once again against the French Cup holders, the "Canaries", who are 14th in the league, at the "Parc des Princes" stadium, to be the only one with the record.
"Without a doubt, Killian will break the record," Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier said after the victory over Marseille, who had knocked him out of the local cup. "He is the best scorer in the world at the moment, there is no doubt about that."
He continued, "He is very fast and does anything quickly. He always appears in the big matches, which is something that the big players are good at."
💙❤️ @KMbappe and Edinson Cavani: Top scorers in club history with 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ goals!
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Mbappe is faster than Cavani
Mbappe needed only 246 games and 5 and a half years to reach the 200-goal barrier with Saint-Germain since he signed his statements from Monaco in August 2017.
On the other hand, Cavani needed 298 matches between 2013 and 2020 to reach this threshold. As for the Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, one of the first stars in the era of ownership of Qatar, he previously held the record with 156 goals in the 4 years he spent in Paris until 2016.
Mbappe, 24, will be facing a new achievement in his career, just two months after he was crowned top scorer in the World Cup in Qatar with 8 goals, including a hat-trick in the final against Argentina teammate Lionel Messi, which France lost on penalties after a 3-3 tie.
This loss in Doha cast a shadow over Mbappe, and prevented him from winning the title of “The Best” in the FIFA Awards, which was won by his little “flea” colleague at a ceremony held in Paris last Monday.
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Mbappe and Messi are preparing for the expected match in Bayern, where Saint-Germain will be a guest on the German champion in the past ten seasons in the second leg of the final price of the main continental competition, after losing 0-1 in the first leg.
Mbappe, returning from injury during the first-leg loss, sat on the bench, but got the opportunity to enter the green rectangle and score a goal that was ruled out by the referee for offside.
Although Saint-Germain misses the third episode in his fiery Brazilian attack, Neymar, due to an ankle injury, he believes in his chances of turning the equation against the giants of Bavaria, thanks to the duo Messi and Mbappe, who ignited the “Velodrome” stadium in the victory over Marseille, with two goals from Mbappe, with two assists from the Argentine, who scored in turn. Reel from the French.
Saint-Germain tightens its grip on the lead with 60 points, 8 points ahead of Marseille, who will visit Rennes the day after tomorrow, Sunday, at the end of the competitions of this stage.