Kylian Mbappé does not yet know if he will be world champion a second time, two days before his 24th birthday. It would be a great birthday and early Christmas present. It is not there and three rather steep steps remain to be climbed. Including the first against England on Saturday night. What the number 10 of the Blues can be almost certain at this time is that he will not be far from the title of top scorer of the World Cup.
After four matches, the Parisian has already scored 5 goals. Statistically, this is quite exceptional if we take into account the fact that, since Gerd Müller’s 10 goals at the 1970 Mexican World Cup, ten of the twelve top scorer titles have been won with 6 goals – the norm – or less (5 goals in 2006 and 2010). Only Grzegorz Lato in 1974 and Ronaldo in 2002 went for their crown higher: 7 achievements for the Pole, 8 for the Brazilian.
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In short, with five goals on the clock, Kylian Mbappé is already in a favorable position, especially since, if the competition is still long, and a cohort of pursuers follows him at 3 goals, including Lionel Messi (Argentina), Marcus Rashford (England), Bukayo Saka (England), Cody Gakpo (Netherlands), Richarlison (Brazil), Gonçalo Ramos (Portugal) and Olivier Giroud (France), all still in contention, his margin places him in comfortable pole position. A successful course for the Blues would greatly help him to ensure his good.
Mbappe = Ronaldo 2002
Five goals after four matches played is obviously a rarity. Just Fontaine had scored 6 in the first round of the 1958 World Cup and, after four games, posted a counter of 8 units on the road to his 13 achievements in 6 matches. In 1994, Igor Salenko, the man of the quintuplet against Cameroon, had struck 6 times in three matches. But the road to Russia had stopped there. The Frenchman’s trajectory is seriously approaching the Ronaldo of 2002, who had also already scored five times before the quarter-finals of the competition.
Kylian Mbappé is already launched in the footsteps of Klose and Ronaldo
Credit: Quentin Guichard
If we take a step back and add up his loot from 2018 and 2022, Mbappé is already at 9 achievements. At the next goal, in Qatar or later, he would join the top 8 of the best scorers in the history of the World Cup, up to Gary Lineker (England), Thomas Müller (Germany) or Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina). In front of him, there would be “only” Miroslav Klose (16 goals), Ronaldo (15), Gerd Müller (14), Just Fontaine (13), Pelé (12), Sandor Kocsis and Jürgen Klinsmann (11). Which gives an idea of the performance of the young man, 24 years old in December.
Already the earliest at 9 goals, ahead of a certain Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Kylian Mbappé can imagine going higher soon. And if Thomas Müller, 10 goals at the age of 24, is yet another example of the famous “everything goes very quickly in football, one way or the other” while the German, now 33, no longer has marked after 2014, we can be quite optimistic for Mbappé. A priori, he is likely to climb a few additional steps and go to titillate the top of the classification.
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