On a cloud. Author of an excellent start to the 2025-2026 financial year under the colors of Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappé perhaps achieved the best performance of his season this Wednesday in the Champions League. In Athens, the French striker distinguished himself by scoring a decisive quadruple in the Merengues’ victory against Olympiakos (3-4). Irresistible, the former Parisian once again shocked the statistics during a star-studded evening.
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Like the number of goals already scored by the Bondynois this season in the Champions League. A figure allowing him to occupy first place in the scorers’ ranking, as in La Liga. Better still, the boss of the Madrid attack has already exceeded his total of goals scored last year in C1 (7). Serhou Guirassy and Raphinha, the top scorers of the previous edition, scored 13 times…
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This is the time needed for Mbappé, watch in hand, to score his first three goals at the end of the first period. While Real had conceded the opener and seemed to be heading towards another difficult match, the Frenchman took matters into his own hands to get his team back on track between the 22nd and 29th minutes. Only Mohamed Salah, in 2022 with Liverpool against Glasgow Rangers (7-1), was faster in the Champions League (6′12″).
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Author of 44 goals last season with Real, Mbappé has already reached half of his impressive record of the past year. Thanks to his quadruplet in Piraeus, the 26-year-old striker took his tally to 22 goals in just 18 games during the current financial year, with more than six months of club competition remaining.
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Real Madrid’s main statistical contributor, Mbappé has scored four more goals than all the other players on his team combined this season (18). Addiction, did you say?
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This Wednesday against Olympiakos, the 2018 world champion scored the third quadruple of his career. He had already achieved this feat in the colors of PSG, during a performance against Lyon on October 7, 2018 (5-0) and with the French team, during an 8-0 victory against Kazakhstan on November 13, 2021.
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By penalizing his Greek opponent four times, the French pyrotechnician became the fifth Frenchman to achieve this feat in C1. From Just Fontaine with Reims in 1958 to Olivier Giroud in 2020 with Chelsea via Lucien Cossou (Monaco, 1963) and Bafétimbi Gomis (Lyon, 2011), the precedents are not legion!
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Unstoppable in 2025, the Madrid star now has 59 goals in the calendar year with Real. This is his personal best, while he still has six matches to play at club before the transition to 2026. If all goes well, the Golden Boot could join the top 5 of the best scorers in a calendar year in the 21st century. The bar is set at 61 achievements (Cristiano Ronaldo in 2014).
