Kylian Mbappe targets Ligue 1 scoring record with PSG next season
Mbappe scored his 29th league goal of the season in PSG’s final game on Saturday, a 3-2 defeat by Clermont, to finish top of the Ligue 1 scoring charts yet again.
Kylian Mbappe said he has his eyes set on the Ligue 1 record for finishing top scorer in six consecutive seasons next year after he equalled the record for five straight Golden Boot awards set by Jean-Pierre Papin.
Mbappe scored his 29th league goal of the season in PSG’s final game on Saturday, a 3-2 defeat by Clermont, to finish top of the Ligue 1 scoring charts yet again.
The Frenchman was earlier named Ligue 1 player of the season for the fourth time in a row last week.
The 24-year-old has finished top scorer in the league every year since his move to PSG was made permanent in 2018, sharing the Golden Boot with AS Monaco’s Wissam Ben Yedder in 2019-20.
Soir de 𝘀𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗲 au Parc des Princes. 🏆#HistoryIsMadeInParis 🔴🔵 pic.twitter.com/8C5jvIS7mo
— Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) June 3, 2023
“My top scorer award? I’m very happy. We’ve won the championship. I’m still top scorer and top player. So that’s great,” said Mbappe, who is also PSG’s all-time top scorer.
“It’s true that it was at the end of the season, when we’d won the title, that it was a personal goal and I’ve achieved it.
Une soirée dédiée à 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐨 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐨. ❤️💙#ÁnimoSergioRico pic.twitter.com/r0FSR1eRhM
— Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) June 3, 2023
“I’m going down in history and I’m happy. But I still have next year to beat Jean-Pierre Papin.”
Three other players have won the Ligue 1 Golden Boot five times but Papin was the first player to win it five times in a row between 1987 and 1992 when he was with Olympique de Marseille.
