His arsenal grows a little more every month. Already unstoppable on the counterattack, lethal in depth, Kylian Mbappé today knows how to score in all positions. This Sunday evening, during Paris Saint-Germain’s victory on the Montpellier pitch (2-6), the striker proved once again that even from afar, he was skillful.
However, his team was in difficulty. While the Parisians led by two goals thanks to a magnificent strike from Vitinha, his fourth goal from outside the area this season, and a first goal from Kylian Mbappé, they were caught before the break. The Frenchman then put on the costume of savior by distilling, in the 50th minute, a marvelous shot curling into the left corner of Dimitry Bertaud.
This is his new special. We knew his leg passes, his inside hook and his low shot at the near post. It is now the curling shot from the start left, into the opposite corner of the goal, which makes it shine.
Last December 20, at the Parc des Princes against Metz, the captain of the French team scored an almost identical goal. Isolated at the entrance to the area, off-center on the left, Kylian Mbappé armed his right foot and fired a fantastic shot which hit the crossbar before ending up in the back of the net.
Just as lethal with the Blues
In the French team too, the Bondynois has got into this good habit. During the round of 16 of the World Cup, against Poland, he had already given a taste of it by curling his shot in stoppage time, which confirmed the qualification of the Blues (3-1). However, he was slightly inside the box. But it was only a postponement. Last October 13, in the Netherlands as part of the qualifiers for Euro 2024, the striker combined with Adrien Rabiot before mystifying from afar poor Bart Verbruggen, who was unable to do absolutely anything.
These actions are absolutely irresistible. No goalkeeper, no matter how good, can stop Kylian Mbappé when he decides to open his right foot and go for the opposite corner. But according to Ile-de-France, this is nothing new. In an interview with Prime Video in January, the striker even assured that his “signature” gesture at the near post was his new weapon.
“I developed it at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021,” said the Paris Saint-Germain player. We were analyzing the fact that I had put so many curling shots at the far post that the goalkeepers and defenders were already positioned there. We started working on that. I try to have as wide a palette as possible. » It worked pretty well. Stuck between depth and long shots, the defenders no longer dare to throw themselves. And Kylian Mbappé has all the latitude to arm his shot, and remove the cobwebs in the Ligue 1 goals.
