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His scoring run continued against Ajaccio a week later as he bagged a pair of second-half goals as PSG won in a 5-0 romp. The former Monaco man's first was a scrappy goal from inside the box, yet the second could barely have been any different as he scored a stunning volley that underlined his qualities and sent the Corsican side into Ligue 2. Surely he’s now too big a player for the French league? He umms and aws: “France isn’t the best championship in the world, but it’s my responsibility, as a flagship player, to help the league grow.” Yet he may well leave this summer, to Real Madrid or England. The decision, perhaps the biggest he’ll face in his career, will be made inside his family. Almost uniquely for a star footballer, Mbappé doesn’t have an agent, just lawyers. Mbappe scored twice against Auxerre to take PSG to the brink of the Ligue 1 title then produced the assist that sealed the silverware the following week as he fashioned a chance for Messi to score in a 1-1 draw with Strasbourg. He sat out the Coupe de France win against Chateauroux and the Ligue 1 clash against Angers and came on as a second-half sub in the 1-0 defeat at Rennes.
As a pair, however, they look to be finding their feet, even if Deschamps offered a reminder that they still had “room for improvement”. Despite those cautious words, the fact he deployed them again in Ireland shows the faith he has in them – and he also can also look forward to the return from injury of William Saliba and Wesley Fofana. Deschamps will want to construct a team with a strong foundation to maintain consistency and build confidence. Their two wins this week suggest they are well on their way and will continue to be contenders.
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There was evidence of a hangover from that loss in PSG's following match against Brest at the weekend, and indeed they would have dropped points had it not been for the striker. In the final minute of the match, he latched onto a pass from Lionel Messi, sped clear of the defence and rounded the goalkeeper to tap into an empty net. It was a finish that gave PSG a 2-1 win on what had promised to be a frustrating evening. He was a star,” says Mbappé, “but he had a desire to transmit. He was like a teacher to me. He’s someone who always wants to score, but he left me the space to express myself. He’s very cool in front of goal, calm in his game, and he transmitted this serenity that I didn’t have, because I was young, excited and wanted to go at 2,000 kilometres an hour.”
Mbappé marvelled at the tension on the faces of other professionals, because he didn’t feel it himself. Everything came easily to him, without great sacrifice, he has said. When I ask about stress in a profession of hypercompetitive men, he shrugs: “Daily life is easy.” He was quieter four days later as PSG won 2-1 at Lorient but found the net against Auxerre in the final match before the World Cup break on November 13.Mbappé will take it all in as he always has and it seems always will, not as an obstacle but as another milestone in his irresistible rise to the very top of world football, now that we’re nearing the end of the Ronaldo-Messi era. And if he gets there (some would say he already has), it won’t be by accident. The grand plan was always to turn him into a superstar footballer. Mbappe started on the bench as PSG beat Nice 2-1 last Saturday, with Hugo Ekitike getting the nod up front, but he scored after replacing the Reims-owned man to seal the victory. Earlier this summer, Mbappe was dropped from the list of travelling players who joined PSG's pre-season tour of South Korea and Japan. Then, when the squad returned to training in Paris earlier this month, Mbappe was sent to train with the reserves and was even left to watch from the bench as PSG opened their Ligue 1 campaign against Lorient at the Parc des Princes on Saturday.
An 18-year-old Kylian Mbappé after scoring for Monaco against Manchester City in the Champions League. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian That run continued the following Saturday when PSG went to Reims in Ligue 1 and drew 0-0. Mbappe started the game but Lionel Messi missed out because of injury and Neymar was given a breather on the bench. He struggled to have an influence on the game and was booked in the closing stages for making a petulant foul.
Kylian Mbappé will be available for next Paris Saint-Germain game and he’s now part of Luis Enrique team 🔴🔵 #PSG Winning the World Cup made Mbappé a national hero. Does he consider himself a star? “I think so. If your face is everywhere in the city, everywhere in the world, that’s for sure. Being a star is a status, but it doesn’t make me a better person than others.” Mbappe became the first player to net FIVE goals in a competitive game for PSG in January when his side beat non-league outfit Pays de Cassell 7-0 in the French Cup, with the forward also grabbing an assist for Neymar.
He finished on a career-best tally of 29 Ligue 1 goals after netting a penalty in a 3-2 loss against Clermont on the final day of the season. He might have hit 30 for the first time but tried to set up Lionel Messi for a goodbye goal - the Argentine missed a simple chance. In high-level football, nobody will make a place for you. Ego, self-love, isn’t just the caprice of stars. It’s also the will to give the best of yourselfMbappé is thought to have been planning to join Real Madrid on a free transfer next summer, but the tone of PSG's reinstatement may prove otherwise. It is still unclear if he has agreed to sign an extension, but Real Madrid fans are livid. Some were hoping that a last-minute deal would be sorted this summer, but the player appears to have snubbed the Spanish giants once more in favour of his current club. Likely to be a candidate for European Golden Shoe and Ballon d’Or glory, Mbappe’s performances should be closely watched this year. The prodigy had a role model close at hand. Wilfried and Fayza had come to the assistance of Congolese friends and provided shelter to Jirès Kembo Ekoko, a nine-year-old who had been sent from Kinshasa to France to escape a problematic family situation. Jirès, Kylian’s senior by more than a decade, was a promising winger who went straight from Bondy’s under-11s team to the Clairefontaine academy and progressed to France’s junior and Espoirs international team and later played for Rennes in Ligue 1. Kylian’s first treasured shirt was the one that the man he considers his “big brother” gave him after scoring two goals against Estonia in his first match for France Under-23s. As Mbappé would later put it in an animated film he made in 2020, Je m’appelle Kylian, whose first frames show him emerging into the world from the shell of a football-shaped egg, “I was born into football.”
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