This is yet another figure that attests to the precocity of Kylian Mbappé.
Author of a double during the victory of PSG (4-2) on the lawn of Lyon on Sunday evening, the Parisian striker scored his 99th and hundredth goals in Ligue 1. A symbolic bar, reached in 142 games with Monaco - where he had scored 16 goals in a year and a half of Ligue 1 - then PSG at only 22 years, three months and one day.
A record in the hexagonal elite, where the earliest previous “centenary” was Hervé Revelli, who reached this total at 23 years and five months in 1969, according to Opta.
It is also better than Just Fontaine, reached this symbolic figure at 24 years, eight months and two days in 1958.
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At the scale of the cracks of the five major European championships, Kylian Mbappé is also an exception.
Still according to Opta, the world champion put a year in sight for Lionel Messi, who reached the 100 mark with Barça at 23 years and 149 days, and more than two to Wayne Rooney, author of his hundredth goal in Premier League at 24.
Cristiano Ronaldo arrived at this total at 25, once he arrived at Real Madrid, just like Karim Benzema.
"A good date"
“It was a good date to score the hundredth goal, I knew I was missing two goals,” explained Kylian Mbappé after the meeting at the microphone of Canal +.
I gave a goal to Kolo-Muani (Editor's note: against Nantes) last week, we had to make up for it.
It is a new stage in my career, a new step towards history.
The road continues.
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In December, Kylian Mbappé reached the 100 goal mark for PSG in all competitions.
An impressive passage time, for the one who joined the club from the capital in the summer of 2017.