After tonight’s match between FC Barcelona and PSG, Kylian Mbappe broke one of Lionel Messi’s Champions League records.
Kylian Mbappe keeps making history as one of the most precocious players in modern history by breaking one of Leo Messi’s all-time records. The French forward faced FC Barcelona tonight in PSG’s second Champions League round of 16 match. During the away game, he scored an impressive hat-trick that placed him within a single goal from this record. Today, he scored a penalty in the first half that made him the youngest player to reach 25 goals in the competition’s history.
Before tonight, Messi was the player who had this stat in the bag with 22 years and 286 days old. Mbappe just broke the record at 22 years and 80 days of age. This new moment in football history proves that he truly is making the sport move forward through his talent. But there’s a major possibility Kylian Mbappe’s record won’t last that long.
Erling Haaland will obliterate this record.
We can’t overlook what Erling Haaland is doing right now, he just scored another brace yesterday against Sevilla. The Borussia Dortmund youngster is still 20 years of age and he already scored 20 goals in 14 games. He still has a little less than two years to score five more goals and make everybody forget Mbappe.
Yet another proof that we are about to get into the modern age football rivalry that will replace the Messi vs Ronaldo debate. Kylian Mbappe is still one of the most impressive young talents in the world right now but Haaland is not too far from him. If things progress as they have so far, we will likely see a confrontation between these two players in the knock-out stage.
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