If PSG got the best of Lyon on Sunday, it is largely thanks to a huge Kylian Mbappé, author of his 100th goal in the league.
“The 100th goal, it goes well”, smiled Kylian Mbappé Sunday evening, at the microphone of Canal+. And how ! The 22-year-old prodigy had already passed the bar of 100 goals for professionals, that of 100 club goals or, more recently, of 100 goals under the Parisian colors. This time, he scored his 99th and 100th goals in the French league. A double – and a high-level performance – which allowed PSG to get the best of Lyon at Groupama Stadium (2-4), during the shock of the 30th day of L1. Double blow, Paris has (re) taken the lead in the standings, two weeks away from another shock, against Lille (April 3). “It was good, we played a good game, we won, we regain our first place and we will try not to let it go. We came with our playing convictions, this desire and we played with a lot of personality. It worked, ”said Mbappé, replaced in the 70th by the returning Neymar. Besides, maybe it wasn’t the plan to get him out. “Kylian’s exit, it’s just as a precaution, he had received a blow in the first half,” said Mauricio Pochettino. To be continued, therefore… We will undoubtedly have news from Clairefontaine in the coming days, Mbappé being expected there for the gathering of the Blues.
Better than Messi and Ronaldo at the same age
In the meantime, the international tricolor (39 caps, 16 goals) has therefore passed this new milestone of 100 goals in L1 with relish in Lyon. “It was a good date to score the 100th goal, he relishes. I knew I had to score two to reach this total. Last week I already wanted to do it, but I gave one to (Ronald) Kolo-Muani. We had to make up for it (smile). ” In this case, Mbappé had offered on a plateau a goal to his fellow Bondynois during the defeat against Nantes (1-2), at the Parc des Princes. And to add: “It’s a new stage in my career, a new step towards history, things that remain. 163 goals between the clubs and the national team? It’s good, the road continues, it has only just begun. I still have many years ahead of me to perfect myself, to improve myself, it can only get better. ” It promises, while he has already broken all the records of precociousness and that he does better than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo at the same age. It is important not to get used to the extraordinary or to normalize the exception: it is a phenomenon.
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One thing is certain: if he started the season softly, like most of his comrades, between the covid-19, a non-existent preparation, the sequence without transition after the “Final 8” and the remains of his injury to the ankle in the final of the Coupe de France, the prodigy of 22 is in shape. At the best time of the season. That it seems far away the time when there was a year without scoring in C1, then blocking the 100 goals mark in Paris. If we had to come out with two matches in the season for PSG, it would undoubtedly be the victories in Barcelona (4-1) and Lyon (4-2). As if by chance, Mbappé was big at Camp Nou like at Parc OL. As luck would have it, it was when he came out on Sunday that Lyon found color again. Although, it started a little earlier in fact, with the changes made by Rudi Garcia and this goal from Islam Slimani shortly after the hour mark. Still, the Red and Blue did not seem to have the same resources for end the meeting without Mbappé that with. Even if the Lyonnais would tell you that they are the ones who missed out during the first hour … “On the first hour of play, Paris wanted more than us and to say that evokes an anomaly”, plague coach Garcia. “This is not acceptable”, abounds the midfielder Maxence Caqueret.
“Getting to 100 goals at 22 is incredible”
Leonardo
Faced with this Mbappé, however, there is not much to do. “It’s nice. If we see the last performances of Kylian and his total of goals, it’s really … To reach 100 goals at 22 years old, it’s incredible ”, ignites Leonardo, who was not particularly inclined to speak of the contract extension of the native of Bondy. “This is not the day to talk about his contract. As we have already said, we will arrive at a time when it will be clearer in relation to its future, ”evades the sports director of PSG, repeating what he has already said on several occasions. And it is true that the hour was more for the celebration than anything else in the Parisian ranks, with this victory which counts double. It is also the first for Paris against another member of the Top 4 in the league this season. Timely. Is the Pochettino method paying off? “We didn’t manage to play well right away. But I think it’s starting to show, little by little. Now we have to confirm, ”swears Mbappé. And if possible against Lille in L1 and especially Bayern Munich (April 7 and 13) in C1.
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