Scoring the only goal to help France overcome Greece in the EURO 2024 qualifier, striker Kylian Mbappe has added another time to fill his name in history.
The match at the Stade de France this morning on June 20 was really a difficult match for the host, when Greece did not let them comfortably deploy the ball and create opportunities. France got the only goal in the 55th minute from Mbappe’s second penalty kick, after the referee ordered the striker to retake it because the Greek player moved early on the first kick.
This result helps France to lead Group B with 12 points, 6 points more than the second ranked team, Greece.
With a successful penalty kick, Mbappe has risen to become French football’s all-time leading goalscorer in a single season with 54 goals at both club and national level, beating the record set by Just Fontaine last season. 1957/58 prize.
Specifically, Mbappe’s total 54 goals this season are as follows: 41 goals for PSG + 29 goals in Ligue 1 + 7 in the Champions League and 1 in the French Cup. In addition, he has scored 13 goals at international level for France.
In the 1957/58 season, Just Fontaine scored 34 goals for Stade Reims in the league – almost half of the team’s total goals, helping them to win the Ligue 1 title for the fourth time in the club’s history, and bet By the way, he has 5 more goals in the French Cup.
Like Mbappe, the late striker also scored 13 goals for France – an even greater achievement when all of those goals were scored in a World Cup. Fontaine scored in every game in Sweden in 1958 – including a hat-trick against Paraguay and Germany as well as a brace against Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland.
Even today, no player has scored as many goals in a single World Cup. This record of Fontaine still stands today and may never even be surpassed.