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Barça-PSG: the crazy figures of Kylian Mbappé's superb evening

2021-02-17T11:37:30.393Z


The PSG striker scored a hat-trick on FC Barcelona's lawn on Tuesday night in the Champions League. There is the number three, that of his number of goals scored on Tuesday on the lawn of FC Barcelona, ​​the same that appears on the back of his victim of the evening, the Spanish defender Gerard Piqué. But the demonstration of Kylian Mbappé during the victory (4-1) of PSG in the knockout stages of the Champions League is summed up by many other statistics which show the extent of the performance


There is the number three, that of his number of goals scored on Tuesday on the lawn of FC Barcelona, ​​the same that appears on the back of his victim of the evening, the Spanish defender Gerard Piqué.

But the demonstration of Kylian Mbappé during the victory (4-1) of PSG in the knockout stages of the Champions League is summed up by many other statistics which show the extent of the performance achieved by the 22-year-old striker .

At Camp Nou, the world champion became the third player to score a hat-trick against FC Barcelona in C1 after Faustino Asprilla and Andreï Shevchenko in 1997. But the Colombian and the Ukrainian, who then played in Newcastle and Dynamo Kiev, had achieved this performance in a group match, and not in a knockout match.

Better than Pauleta and Zidane

Personally, Kylian Mbappé has become the third top scorer in the history of PSG with 111 goals in the Paris jersey since his arrival in 2017. He is now ahead of Pedro Miguel Pauleta (109), but still points far behind Zlatan Ibrahimovic (156 ) and his former partner, Edinson Cavani (200).

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With his hat-trick, the world champion became the third most prolific Frenchman in a knockout match in the Champions League.

His ten goals, including six with Monaco, put him ahead of Zinédine Zidane, who has eight goals in these choppy matches.

Mbappé nevertheless remains behind Thierry Henry (12) and Karim Benzema (18).

At Camp Nou, he also became the first Frenchman to score a hat-trick in a C1 knockout match since Sylvain Wiltord with OL against Werder Bremen in 2005.

Beyond his goals, the French ended the evening with a formidable statistical record.

According to Opta, Mbappé shot six times, framing four times.

He also won 80% of his duels (12 out of 15), succeeded 9 of his 13 dribbles and finished his match with 84% successful passes.

Source: leparis

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