Forgotten the tensions of his departure from PSG who so annoyed his former president. Completed the disenchantment with an audience he had delighted for seven years but who preferred to retain only the last moments. The most painful. Those where it is necessary to break the dishes rather than remember a quasi-septennat of happiness. This time, the Parc des Princes was happy to see Kylian Mbappé again appeased on his former lawn with the Captain of the Blues.
Nothing to do with his last appearance here under the tricolor tunic. It was against Italy last year. Mbappé was then a new Real player and was not necessarily happy in the French team.
Against Iceland, this time, everything seemed to be forgiven. The Parisian public had already ovationed him at the time of the announcement of the teams. Reserving his whistles to Adrien Rabiot, guilty of having worn the OM jersey, and, more surprising anyway, to Didier Deschamps. The remainder of the beginning of the controversy launched by PSG after the injuries of Goué and Dembélé against Ukraine. It is a reflection of an era. Idoles and scapegoats are needed, sometimes the same in a few months. Mbappé was therefore loved again in his old garden.
While his team was too purring in the first period against the Icelanders, so far from its perfect start against Ukraine, Mbappé, first spread out a nice sense of the collective. Trying to highlight in particular Marcus Thuram’s head game by the quality of his centers (19th).
He approaches Giroud’s record
Like the other French, the captain of the Blues, was obsessed with victory in order to take the head of the qualifying group alone. But he necessarily had another goal in mind: to score his 52nd goal in the French team and to go beyond the immense Thierry Henry in this counter for glory. That he registering it is obvious. And that he then broke the record of Olivier Giroud, 57 achievements, is another. But the place of the feat is not neutral when one claims to write his own legend. You might as well choose your own decor.
And what could be better than exceeding Henry in the park? Where every corner of the lawn reminds him of a goal, a dribbling, a feat or a favorite. Mark the history of the Blues a little more in a garden where he has known everything is certain to print a little more in the collective memory.
This goal, he believed to write it with a superb free kick, twenty-two meters on its left. But he had pulled before the referee authorized him (36th). On his face, frustration was perennial: not today, not here.
But happiness arrived just before rest. After consulting the Var, the referee offers a penalty to the blues conducted since the 21st minute. Even before Mbappé’s momentum, the public screams his name as at the most beautiful moments in the love story with PSG. And his transformation with mastery (45th) also brings him back to the time of happy decibels in the Parisian enclosure.
After rest, there is still a match that should be won. And it is still Mbappé who puts France in the right direction. Launched to the goal by Tchouameni, he appeared in front of the goalkeeper but, instead of trying his luck, he offers, at the same time as a 33rd decisive pass in blue, the second French goal in Bradley Barcola. An offering for a PSG player at home. The beautiful image more. Everything is forgiven.
