Mbappe breaks Messi and Ronaldo’s scoring record among players under 25
Paris Saint-Germain and the French national football team striker Kylian Mbappe broke the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo’s scoring record. This was reported by the statistical portal Opta Sport on the social network. X.
The forward scored a hat-trick in the Euro 2024 qualifying match with Gibraltar. Thus, he surpassed the 300-goal mark in his career. Mbappe did this at the age of 24, thus ahead of Ronaldo, as well as Argentine Lionel Messi and Brazilian Neymar, who reached this milestone after reaching their 25th birthday.
In addition, Mbappe took third place in the list of scorers for the French national team. He scored 46 goals for the national team, surpassing Antoine Griezmann, who scored 44 goals.
On November 18, the French national team defeated the Gibraltar team in a qualifying match for the 2024 European Football Championship. The game took place in Nice and ended with a score of 14:0. In the first minutes of the meeting, Gibraltarian Ethan Santos scored an own goal. In addition to Mbappe, the French scored Olivier Giroud and Kingsley Coman, who scored a brace each. Warren Zaire-Emery, Jonathan Kloss, Youssouf Fofana, Adrien Rabiot and Ousmane Dembele also scored goals.
Source: Lenta
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