Author of a double, Kylian Mbappé flew over the clash between Paris SG and Lyon Sunday (4-2) Sunday in Ligue 1, reaching the symbolic bar of 100 goals in the French Championship, including 84 with PSG, in 142 matches in total.
He also registered sixteen with Monaco where he had made his professional debut.
“This is a new stage in my career, a new step towards history, these are things that remain,” he savored at the microphone of ‘Canal +’. “The road continues, it has only just begun. I have many years ahead of me to perfect myself and improve myself, it can only get better.”
Mbappé, who was playing his 101st game with the Parisian club in Ligue 1, animated the PSG attack line with Moïse Kean and Angel Di Maria.
He opened the scoring in the 15th minute by resuming a shot from Marco Verratti repelled by goalkeeper Anthony Lopes to whom the French international left no chance after a good oriented control.
In the second half, after being alerted full axis by Marco Verratti, he dropped Marcelo to shoot closely the unfortunate goalkeeper Anthony Lopes (52).
And once his job was done and after a final raid in the Lyon defense, he was able to give way to Neymar who made his comeback to competition in the 70th minute, after more than a month of absence due to injury.
Eight goals since the break
Here are the 19th and 20th goals this season in Ligue 1 for Mbappé, very fit since the start of 2021 with eight goals after the winter break.
But it is also his 29th and 30th goals in 36 matches in all competitions this season, which places him on the basis of his record of the 2018-2019 season at the end of which he reached a total of 39.
But his performances remain correlated with the volatile season of his team, capable of defeating Barça at home in the Champions League with a hat-trick of “Kyky”, then losing the next match against Monaco (2-0) or even against Nantes (2-1), Sunday.
The absence due to injury, for more than a month, of his accomplice Neymar, replacing against Lyon, may have something to do with it, unless it is the ongoing discussions around the extension of his expiring contract in 2022.
“Not a robot”
“It is not a robot. He has given so much, he has the right to have a little less legs. There is fatigue from the sequence of matches, also linked to the health situation,” said Thursday his coach with the Blues, Didier Deschamps.
“He is one of the best, even less well he has the capacity to be decisive,” he added. Author of eleven goals in eight confrontations (including eight in Ligue 1) against OL, the former Monegasque feels good between Rhône and Saône.
And it doesn’t matter who those around him are in the Parisian attacking league. “He is good everywhere whether he is in the axis on the right or on the left. He has the capacity to adapt”, recognizes Mauricio Pochettino who finds him perhaps “more competitive” on the left wing.
Against OL, with a PSG who outclassed his opponent, it was in this area that he proved to be a constant danger for the Lyon defense.
And in particular the Italian Mattia De Sciglio, tenured as a right-back in place of Léo Dubois, whom he martyred like the overflow made in the 6th minute.
In contrast, Memphis Depay, with fourteen goals in Ligue 1, six less than Kylian Mbappé, completely isolated, did not exist while he was hoping for a lot of this shock against PSG. Rudi Garcia put an end to his ordeal in the 57th minute by replacing him with Islam Slimani.