PARIS (AP) — Kylian Mbappé breaks France’s scoring record with two goals. Senegal match in world cup on tuesday.
The 27-year-old Real Madrid striker reached 58 goals during the match, which France won 3-1, advancing to a one-point difference. Olivier GiroudHe retired from the national team.
He will look to add to that record when he faces Iraq in Philadelphia on Monday. Group I action against Norway concludes four days later in Boston.
Mbappé’s first goal for Les Bleus came nine years ago. Other statistics from his French career include:
14
Number of goals scored by Mbappé in the World Cup. Two people in this tournament. In 2022, he scored eight goals and won the Golden Boot Trophy as the top scorer. He surpassed compatriot Juste Fontaine’s 13 goals, all of which came in the 1958 World Cup. Former German national team striker Miroslav Klose and Argentina national team Lionel Messi. amazing hat trick Just hours after Mbappe’s brace, let’s share the record of 16 World Cup goals.
3
Mbappé scores a hat-trick for France. his first work was 4 goals scored He played alongside Karim Benzema in the 2021 World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan. The next match was against Argentina. 2022 World Cup Finalsthe other is 14-0 losing record He will represent Gibraltar in the 2023 European Championship qualifiers.
18
Mbappé was the age he was when he made his debut in France as a substitute in a World Cup qualifying match against Luxembourg in March 2017. He scored a goal while still only 18 years old. first goal In a qualifying match against the Netherlands at the Stade de France in August of the same year.
7
The last time he scored one or more goals in consecutive games for the French national team was from early June last year to late March this year.
10
The number of times Mbappé was shown a yellow card while representing France. He hasn’t been sent off.
2
Number of times he has scored in World Cup finals: against Croatia in 2018 as a 19-year-old and against Argentina in 2022. He is one of only two players to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final, the other being England’s Geoff Hurst in 1966. Another French player to score in two finals is Zinedine Zidane (1998 and 2006), but he is the only teenager to score in a men’s final (1998 and 2006). It was the great Pele of Brazil in 1958.
99
Number of matches played by the French national team. If France move up in the competition, he could overtake coach and former captain Didier Deschamps, who made 103 appearances as a midfielder. Barring injury, Mbappe will overtake goalkeeper Hugo Lloris’ record of 145 appearances for Les Bleus.
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