The armband did not suit him badly at all, Monday evening at the Bollaert stadium. For his first as captain at the start of a PSG meeting, Kylian Mbappé was ruthless with the Pays de Cassel (0-7), in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France. As if he had not signed enough early records, the star striker of the France team offered himself the first quintuplet of his career (29th, 35th, 40th, 56th, 78th, the count is good , right?) against the small northern club of Regional 1. It is above all the first player to sign such an individual performance with Paris Saint-Germain. This shows how the kid from Bondy enters a little more into the story each week.
So imagine that Kylian Mbappé became in Lens the co-top scorer in the history of the Coupe de France with 29 goals, alongside Jean-Pierre Papin. Yes yes, at the age of 24 and after only 25 games played in this competition… He overtook a former PSG icon, Pedro Miguel Pauleta, scorer 28 times in the Coupe de France with Bordeaux and Paris.
“No need to encourage him for the records”
“He is formatted to score but he was not obsessed with the goal tonight, reacted his coach Christophe Galtier on Monday evening. It’s Kylian, he’s a man of numbers and statistics. I don’t need to encourage him to break records. Another eminently prestigious is already for tomorrow: thanks to this new individual carnage, the Parisian number 7 is only four lengths from the impressive total of Edinson Cavani, best director in the history of PSG with 200 goals.
And what better context than the Vélodrome stadium, for a boiling round of 16 of the Coupe de France OM-PSG, in order to do a double blow and overtake JPP and Cavani? It is still necessary that the record of the Uruguayan can hold two additional weeks, which is not guaranteed given the joker.