The Parisian captain scored a hat-trick in Montpellier on Sunday evening in a crazy match.
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“Aren’t you happy? Triple”. At the Mosson stadium, many people immediately thought of this viral sentence from Kylian Mbappé when the Parisian striker scored his third goal during Montpellier-PSG (2-6), Sunday March 17. Its 24th in 24 matches this season, to definitively validate Paris’ biggest victory in Ligue 1 in a year and a half.
Before this real fox goal on an inspired opening from Vitinha (63rd, 2-5), the captain of the Blues had already largely weighed on the meeting. He was first decisive by launching the same Vitinha, who then built his goal on his own by eliminating two opponents then brushing his shot from 20 meters (14th, 0-1). Mbappé himself doubled the score, improving a shift from Randal Kolo Muani to the left of the area (22nd, 0-2). This was before signing the masterpiece of the evening.
8th scorer in Ligue 1 history
Returning from the locker room, the ex-Monegasque, not attacked 25 meters from the goal, sent a sublime floating shot into the Hérault top corner, with the help of the crossbar (50th, 2-3). With the armband due to Marquinhos’ injury, Mbappé scored his ninth hat-trick and his 188th goal in Ligue 1.
This total now places him eighth among the top scorers in the history of the championship, and if he does not catch up with the first, Delio Onnis (299) before his departure at the end of the season, he will certainly leave the club at seventh place, since Joseph Ujlaki (190) only has two more goals. Even getting closer to the sixth, Roger Piantoni (203) or the fifth, Thadée Cisowski (206). It will probably be just eight days from the end, but if Mbappé – who played 90 minutes in L1 for the first time since announcing his departure on February 16 – sets out to achieve this objective, the counter could quickly rise.
Paris without rival in the championship
Mbappé barely had time to celebrate his jewel when he saw Kan-In Lee imitate him. In an action initiated by the Bondynois, the South Korean caressed the Montpellier goal with a subtle brushed shot from the left (53rd, 2-4), confirming the thunderous awakening of his family. Rather welcome, while Montpellier had picked up in a lively end to the first act, where Arnaud Nordin (30th, 1-2) and Téji Savanier from the penalty spot (45th+2, 2-2) fed off Parisian defensive errors. “We have to emphasize the attitude and the reaction we had after half-time, we could have been a little worried, we reacted in the best way”underlined Vitinha at the microphone of Prime Video.
Montpellier, asphyxiated by a diligent Parisian team, and in any case very limited (14th at one point behind the play-off, Nantes), was unable to hold out. Paris thus, without forcing too much, increased its lead with the third goal from Mbappé (63rd) and another from Nuno Mendes (89th, 2-6), served by the untenable Vitinha. Something to reassure Paris: after three unsuccessful matches in Ligue 1, the capital club now has a 12-point lead over Brest, held to a draw by Lille earlier (1-1). With eight days to go, the 12th title in PSG’s history is only a matter of weeks.