Kylian Mbappe continues to make history PSG. The attacker scored five goals in the 7-0 win against Kassel country (sixth division) in the round of 16 of the French Cup. Thanks to this performance, the 24-year-old striker became the first footballer to score that many goals in the Parisian team’s jersey in a match.
As this were not enough, the “7” is one step away from another record with the club from the capital. The Frenchman has already reached 196 goals and was only four behind the Uruguayan Edinson Cavani, the top scorer in the history of the Parisian institution. A mark that possibly reaches and surpasses in the next duels that the team of Christophe Galtier.
PSG’s next rival in the French Cup
After beating the Pays de Cassel at the Félix Bollaert-Deléli Stadium with the aforementioned goals from “Donatello”, one of Neymar and another of Carlos SolerParis got into the round of 16 of the French Cup, where it will be measured in the classic against Olympic Marseillewho beat Rennes 1-0 in their duel for the round of 16.
Why didn’t Lionel Messi play?
La Pulga did not make Galtier’s squad for this match against a lesser rival. The DT made the decision that the star from Rosario rest after the trip that the French team made to Saudi Arabia for a commercial tour, which included the friendly against Riyadh Season. In that duel the “30” faced Cristiano Ronaldo.
The friendly that brought the group together
“The goal was to play a serious game in Saudi Arabia. The players were very focused and we needed a lot of training to recover our automatisms. We can no longer take refuge in the break for the World Cup. It was better than a friendly match, there was a real opportunity, which allowed us to have a very good work session,” said the French strategist. «The fact of having spent three days together made it possible to have exchanges and find a unit of the group“he added.