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Barcelona-PSG (1-4): the messiah is Mbappé

2021-02-16T22:46:36.013Z


Author of a hat-trick, Parisian striker Kylian Mbappé delivered a performance from elsewhere on the lawn of Barcelona. He erased the sex


Star wars did not take place.

For their very first match in the Champions League, the “Jedi” Lionel Messi was stolen the spotlight by his Padawan, Kylian Mbappé.

For his very first visit to Camp Nou, the PSG striker gave an air of transfer of power to this round of 16 first leg of C1, as he made his garden of the mythical Catalan lawn.

Two and a half years after having stolen the light from him in the round of 16 of the World Cup in Russia, the Kid de Bondy has put the cover back in an even crazier way.

Author of two goals and to be credited with a penalty caused twenty-eight months ago in Kazan, the machine of Bondy combined its reunion with the Argentinian more than perfect by signing a hat-trick of the big mark.

This match, "it is not a duel between Messi and Mbappé" had warned the Catalan coach Ronald Koeman, as if to cut short a match in the match, Monday at a press conference.

It is clear that the Barça coach was right.

Tuesday, while Lionel Messi attended, helpless or almost, the sinking of his family, it is a service from elsewhere, from another galaxy, that Kylian Mbappé delivered in Spanish lands.

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In the absence of Di Maria, victim of a thigh injury, but especially of Neymar, affected in the adductors, the whole football planet was waiting for the tricolor world champion at the turn.

Not content to demonstrate the range of his talent, the Parisian has displayed his high mental color to the world.

After Messi, against the course of the game, allowed Barcelona to take the advantage on a controversial penalty, Kylian Mbappé pumped up his chest, took matters into his own hands and put Paris back on track.

Mardi Gras obliges, the top scorer in Ligue 1 made his carnival on the field and gave the evening real festive air.

His sequence of control oriented right (to eliminate Lenglet) chained with a strike from the left had allowed Paris to equalize after a school action (32nd).

His second strike from the left, this time following a cross from Florenzi, offered his family a good deal (65th).

He overtakes Zinedine Zidane

But his resumption of law, on Draxler's serve, sent him and his team to another dimension.

After leaving the competition in the round of 16 against Real Madrid in his first season at PSG, being taken out by Manchester United at the same stadium the following year and being eclipsed by Neymar in the Lisbon Final 8, Mbappé has this time took the light, and even more, by delivering his best performance in the Parisian jersey.

More beautiful, undoubtedly, than the one against Argentina at the World Cup, its copy is already set in stone.

Since yesterday, he has become, with 111 goals, the third trigger in the history of PSG behind Ibrahimovic (156) and Cavani (200).

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By scoring his ninth goal in a knockout match in the Champions League, he overtook legend Zinedine Zidane (8).

He is also the first player in history to score a hat-trick against Barcelona in a C1 knockout match.

At only 22 years old, he has definitely entered the big leagues.

Source: leparis

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