MBAPPE - MORE THAN 50 !
Picture : Kylian Mbappé on the top !
Mbappe: 50+ goals in two consecutive years
*Two goals scored by Kylian Mbappe for France vs Denmark were his 49th and 50th top-level goals for club and country in 2022. He is the first player in the world to reach this mark in the current year.
*Mbappe have reached it also in 2021 (finishing last year with 51 goals). Thus, he became the 5th player over XXI century with annual tally of 50+ in multiple calendar years and just the 3rd to achieve this in consecutive years, after Cristiano Ronaldo who scored 50+ in 7 years in a row (from 2011 to 2017) and Lionel Messi (6 years in a row from 2014 to 2019).
*At the same time, Mbappe became 2nd player in the world to reach 100 goals in the 3rd decade of XXI century (2021-2030). He is at 101 now being only behind Robert Lewandowski who scored his 111th decade goal for Poland vs Saudi Arabia.
PLAYERS | WITH | MULTIPLE 50+ GOALS' YEARS IN XXI CENTURY | ||
Player | Country | Times | Years (goals) | |
Lionel Messi | Argentina | 9 | 2010(60), 2011(59), 2012(91), 2014(58), 2015(52), 2016(58), 2017(54), 2018(51), 2019(50) | |
Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 7 | 2011(60), 2012(63), 2013(69), 2014(61), 2015(57), 2016(55), 2017(53) | |
Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 3 | 2017(53), 2019(54), 2021(69) | |
Zlatan Ibrahimović | Sweden | 2 | 2012(50), 2016(50) | |
Kylian Mbappé | France | 2 | 2021(51), 2022(50) |