Author of his 199th and 200th goals with PSG, Kylian Mbappé became the co-top scorer in club history against OM, alongside Edinson Cavani.
Energy sobriety is not a problem for PSG. When everything is going badly at the club, on the verge of crisis for several weeks, all he needs is Kylian Mbappé to turn on the light. Eighteen days after the defeat in the Coupe de France at the Vélodrome, against the same OM, and in his absence, the tricolor striker set the record straight, Sunday February 26. Author of a double, and decisive passer, he took advantage of this Classic at the top to become the co-top scorer in the history of PSG, with Edinson Cavani (200 goals). And also to reassure everyone.
Above all, Kylian Mbappé transformed Paris Saint-Germain by his mere presence. Because, as in the Coupe de France eighteen days ago, PSG was first pushed around by a conquering OM. But this time, the Parisians had a weapon to respond to the aggressiveness of Olympian pressing: the speed of Kylian Mbappé. The French took advantage of the mistakes of the Marseille defense (deprived of his innkeeper Chancel Mbemba, suspended) to devour the spaces that it usually leaves behind his back. In two accelerations, he stunned OM and put an end to all suspense of a Classic that we imagined to be more undecided than it was in the end.
Messi also benefits
The two goals scored by the French are proof of this. On the first, he made a supersonic call across the width of the field to take the three central defenders from behind, before being served perfectly by Messi and concluding with a clinical cross shot. On his second, the third of the evening, he escaped once again in the back of the defense, once again wonderfully served by the Argentinian. Same case on the second Parisian goal, scored by Lionel Messi, on a millimeter service from … Mbappé, after a new in-depth call. The duo thus becomes the one who has exchanged the most assists this season in Ligue 1.
Figures that support the ball-to-foot connection between Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi, but it is not only on the statistical aspect that the Frenchman improves the world champion. By his multiple calls in depth, Kylian Mbappé monopolizes the opposing defenders, and takes them in his wake. During this time, inevitably, the spaces open up in the heart of the game for the sevenfold Golden Ball, who exploits them wonderfully, like his two assists of the evening.
Unlike the defeat in the Coupe de France, with Neymar and Messi at the forefront of the Parisian block, but no one in front of them to offer solutions, Mbappé comes to swallow these spaces. The French striker is however not only at the conclusion of the actions, By his sumptuous decisive pass for Lionel Messi, which he slipped into a mouse hole, he also recalled that he was also a formidable provider of caviar. Above all, he proved that in his absence, PSG was depopulated. And in his presence, their power is increased tenfold.