Kylian Mbappe had already won 17 trophies and scored 329 goals in his career before joining Real Madrid. And it went quite well.
Here are the Frenchman’s most ridiculous career statistics so far. He has joined the European champions.
* Kylian Mbappe has scored 344 and assisted 161 goals in 470 career appearances for club and country, winning 18 trophies.
* Kylian Mbappé has scored 19 hat-tricks in his career in seven other competitions (Coupe de los Angeles Ligue, Ligue One, Champions League, Coupe de France, World Cup qualifiers, World Cup qualifiers and Euro Cup) against Rennes, FC Metz (x2), Lyon (x2, one = 4 goals), Guingamp, Monaco, Club Brugge, Barcelona, Clermont Foot, Vannes, Lille, US Pays de Cassel (five goals), Stade Reims, US Revel, Montpellier, Kazakhstan (4 goals), Argentina and Gibraltar.
* Mbappé ranks seventh in all-time goals in the French top flight (191), but is first in goals scored in Ligue One in the 21st century.
* Mbappé is Ligue One’s top scorer for a record six consecutive seasons, a record for the competition.
* Mbappé is the first player to finish with the top scorer and assists in the same Ligue Un season (2021/22).
* Mbappe is the only player to win the Ligue Un Player of the Year award in five consecutive seasons. He was also the first player to win it in three and four consecutive seasons. No other player has won it more than three times overall.
* Only seven players in Champions League and European Cup history have scored more goals in the competition than Mbappe (50), and of those just Ruud van Nistelrooy, Robert Lewandowski, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have a better goals-per-game record than the Frenchman’s 0.63.
* Mbappé has scored more goals in the Champions League or European Cup than Alfredo Di Stefano, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Eusebio, Mo Salah, Didier Drogba, Neymar, Alessandro Del Piero, Sergio Agüero, Ferenc Puskas, Gerd Muller, Samuel Eto ‘o, Wayne Rooney, David Trezeguet, Ryan Giggs, Luis Suárez and Romario, others.
*Mbappé 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 defeated by the equally ridiculous Erling Haaland.
* Mbappe was the second youngest player to score 50 Champions League goals, behind only Lionel Messi.
* Only Ruud van Nistelrooy (62 games), Lionel Messi (66) and Robert Lewandowski (77) scored their first 50 Champions League goals in fewer games than Mbappe (79).
*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.
* Mbappe is Paris Saint-Germain’s record goalscorer in all competitions, despite being 25 and spending only six years there. He scored 256 goals in 308 appearances.
Only five players have scored more goals in the Champions League round of 16 than Mbappé (20), who has more than Andriy Shevchenko, Raúl, Neymar, Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and which Liverpool player.
* Mbappe is the youngest player in Champions League history to score in both legs of a quarter-final, and to score at all in a semi-final, with those goals coming for Monaco in 2017. His first six Champions League career goals were all in the knockout stages.
*Mbappé is the youngest Champions League goalscorer from two clubs, which is ridiculous the more you think about it. Inevitably, he became the first teenager in history to score a goal in the Champions League for two other clubs.
* Mbappé is the most successful teenager in the history of the Champions League.
*Mbappé has scored in the past as a visitor at the Camp Nou, Bernabéu, Old Trafford, Anfield, Etihad, Allianz Arena, Juventus Stadium, Signal Iduna Park and Celtic Park.
* Only five of the 26 groups in which Mbappé has played in Europe have prevented him from scoring. They have faced Lille, Bayer Leverkusen and Spurs once, making CSKA Moscow and Napoli in the groups that will face Mbappé twice in Europe without conceding a goal.
* Mbappe has played 14 games against English clubs, scoring six goals and assisting three against Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham and Newcastle.
* Mbappé has scored more goals (15) against Montpellier than any club, in 15 games. In the Champions League he scored most of his goals against Barcelona (six).
*Mbappé is the most loved teenager in football history and remains the second most loved player of all time following his £166 million move to Paris Saint-Germain in 2018.
* Mbappe scored the most of his goals for Thomas Tuchel, scoring 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 the French team than Mbappé (48 in 84), and Just Fontaine has scored more goals for France in the World Cup. He is also the youngest French player to score in a World Cup.
* Only players have scored more World Cup goals than the 24-year-old Mbappé (12): Lionel Messi, Just Fontaine (both 13), Gerd Müller (14), Ronaldo (15) and Miroslav Klose (16).
* Only five players have ever scored more goals in a single World Cup tournament than Mbappe’s eight 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 16-man World Cup (16-for-16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final) than Mbappe, who is level with Ronaldo on 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; I 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.
*Mbappé is the second player to score in consecutive 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).
* Mbappé is the top scorer in the World Cup finals with four goals in 2018 and 2022.
* Mbappe is the only player to score a competitive hat-trick for France in Mbappe’s lifetime. Before his four goals against Kazakhstan in a World Cup qualifier in November 2021, three against Argentina in the 2022 World Cup final and treble in a November 2023 shellacking of Gibraltar, the previous hat-trick for Les Bleus outside of friendlies was in 1985, by Dominique Rocheteau.
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