Kylian Mbappé is playing his first Champions League match with Real Madrid this Tuesday evening against Stuttgart, and is looking to improve his statistics quickly.
Failing to win the Champions League With PSG, Kylian Mbappé has regularly scored goals on the European stage for six seasons. At 25, the captain of the French team has scored 48 goals in the Champions League, 42 with the Rouge et Bleu (with an average of 7 goals over the last four seasons) and 6 during the 2016-2017 season with AS Monaco. By joining Real Madrid, the prodigy from Bondy can therefore explode his statistics in addition to putting more luck on his side to lift the cup with the big ears for the first time.
Halfway through his career, Mbappé has already entered the top 10 of the best scorers in the history of the Champions League, equaling Andriy Shevchenko and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 10th position. He is just one goal away from 9th place, occupied by Casa Blanca legend Alfredo Di Stéfano, as well as two goals behind Thierry Henry, the competition’s 8th best scorer with 50 goals (7 with Monaco, 35 with Arsenal, 8 with Barça). Two players that Mbappé can symbolically surpass in the coming months.
Mbappé far from the top 5
If Real Madrid catches fire during the eight days of the new phase of the league (against Stuttgart, Lille, Dortmund, AC Milan, Liverpool, Atalanta, Salzburg and Brest), Mbappé has a chance of making a leap in the rankings and overtaking Thomas Müller and Ruud van Nistelrooy, authors of 54 and 56 goals respectively. Robert Lewandowski and Karim Benzema, 94 and 90 goals in the C1 (knowing that the Pole still plays in the C1), seem very far away. And what about Lionel Messi at 129 goals and the record holder Cristiano Ronaldo at 140 goals?
Real’s new number 9 will already try to do as well as last season with PSG and his record of 8 goals. Author of three goals against Real Sociedad in the round of 16 (2-0, 1-2) then a double in the quarter-final return in Barcelona (2-3, 1-4), the prodigy from Bondy remained silent during the double confrontation against Dortmund in the semi-finals (1-0, 0-1) for a last painful elimination.
