Kylian Mbappé has scored more goals in the Champions League or European Cup than Alessandro Del Piero, Sergio Agüero and Ferenc Puskas. El Liverpool.
Here are the most ridiculous stats from the Frenchman’s career so far. No Liverpool are so desperate to sign Mbappe.
* Mbappe scored 310 goals and provided 127 assists in 419 career appearances for club and country, winning 15 trophies.
* Mbappe ranks ninth in all-time goals in Ligue One (182) and is first in goals scored in Ligue One in the 21st century.
* Mbappe has been Ligue One’s top scorer for five consecutive seasons, a record he holds alongside Jean-Pierre Papin.
* Mbappé is the first player to finish off the top scorer and assists in the same Ligue Un season (2021/22).
* Mbappe is the only player to have won the Ligue One Player of the Year award in 4 consecutive seasons. He is also the first player to win it 3 consecutive seasons.
* Only 15 players in Champions League and European Cup history have scored more goals in the competition than Mbappe (43), and of those just Eusebio, Alfredo di Stefano, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Robert Lewandowski, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have a better goals-per-game record than the Frenchman’s 0.65.
* Mbappe has scored more Champions League or European Cup goals than Alessandro Del Piero, Sergio Aguero, Ferenc Puskas, Gerd Muller, Samuel Eto’o, Wayne Rooney, David Trezeguet, Ryan Giggs, Luis Suarez and Romario, among many others.
* Mbappe was the youngest player to score 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 goals in the Champions League, most of which have since been beaten by the equally ridiculous Erling Haaland.
*Mbappé is one of three players to score a hat-trick in the Champions League against Barcelona, and the first to score four goals against the Catalans in a single Champions League campaign.
* Mbappé is Paris Saint-Germain’s top scorer in all competitions, despite being 24 years old and joining the team six years ago. He scored 237 goals in 284 appearances.
* Only 8 players have scored more in Champions League knockout rounds than Mbappe (15), who has more than Wayne Rooney, Didier Drogba and any Liverpool player.
* Mbappe is the youngest player in Champions League history to score in both quarter-final and semi-final matches, with those goals coming with Monaco in 2017. The first six goals of his Champions League career were all in the circular. of 16.
* Mbappe is the youngest Champions League goalscorer for two clubs, which is ridiculous the more you think about it. He was quite inevitably the first teenager in history to score a Champions League goal for two different clubs.
* Mbappe is the highest-scoring teenager in Champions League history.
* Mbappe has already scored at Camp Nou, Bernabeu, Old Trafford, Anfield, Etihad, Allianz Arena, Juventus Stadium, Signal Iduna Park and Celtic Park.
* Only five of the 24 groups in which Mbappe has played in Europe have prevented him from scoring. He has faced Atalanta, Bayer Leverkusen and Spurs once, making CSKA Moscow and Napoli in the groups that will face Mbappe twice in Europe without conceding a goal.
* Mbappe has made 14 appearances for English clubs, scoring six and providing three assists against Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham and Newcastle.
* Mbappe has scored more goals (13) against Lyon than any club in 15 games. In the Champions League, he scored the majority of his goals against Club Brugge (five).
* Mbappe was the most expensive teenager in football history and remains the second-most expensive player ever after his £166m move to Paris Saint-Germain in 2018.
* Mbappe has scored most of his goals for Thomas Tuchel, bagging 83 goals in 98 games during the German’s reign at PSG.
* Abroad, Olivier Giroud (56 in 127) and Thierry Henry (51 in 123) have scored more goals for France than Mbappe (46 in 73), and Just Fontaine has scored more goals for France at the World Cup. He is also the youngest French player to score at a World Cup.
* Only players have scored more World Cup goals than the 24-year-old Mbappe (12): Lionel Messi, Just Fontaine (both 13), Gerd Muller (14), Ronaldo (15) and Miroslav Klose (16).
* Only players have scored more goals in a single World Cup than Mbappé’s 8 in 2022: Gerd Muller (10 in 1970), Eusebio (9 in 1966), Just Fontaine (13 in 1958), Sandor Kocsis (11 in 1954). and Ademir (9 in 1950).
* No player has scored more goals in the round of 16 of the World Cup (16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final) than Mbappe, who is on par with Ronaldo with 8 goals.
* Mbappe was the first player to score eight, nine, 10, 11 and 12 World Cup goals before their 24th birthday.
*Mbappé, the second teenager to score two goals in a World Cup match and the second teenager to score in a World Cup final; Pele was the first to do both.
* Mbappe is only the second player to score a World Cup final hat-trick, after Geoff Hurst in 1966.
* Mbappe is only the second player to score in back-to-back World Cup finals, after Vava in 1958 and 1962.
* Only four players have been top scorer at a World Cup tournament at a younger age than Mbappe (8 goals) in 2022: James Rodriguez was 23 in 2014 (6), Thomas Muller was 20 in 2010 (5), Mario Kempes was 23 in 1978 (6) and Florian Albert was 20 in 1962 (4).
* Mbappe is the top scorer in World Cup finals matches with four goals in 2018 and 2022.
* Mbappé is the only player to have scored a competitive hat-trick in France Mbappé’s life. Before his four goals against Kazakhstan in a World Cup qualifier in November 2021, three against Argentina in the 2022 World Cup final and his hat-trick. In a bombing of Gibraltar in November 2023, Les Bleus’ last hat-trick outside of friendlies was in 1985, through Dominique Rocheteau.
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