Sure, he is mostly beating up on teams that are not performing well at all defensively, but Kylian Mbappe is having another World Cup for the ages from a scoring perspective. He has been a fox in the box for France, blasting goals in from range, and even pressing for the national team, which is a sight that has made Real Madrid fans envious.
Mbappe has scored four goals in two games for Les Bleus, and he is going toe to toe with the legendary Lionel Messi of Argentina in the World Cup record book for the competition's all time leading scorer. Previously, that record was held by German marksman Miroslav Klose (and by the way, if you don't think he was a great player, go back and watch his Werder Bremen film back when they were a great German club).
Now, the leaderboard reads like so: Messi is first with 18, Mbappe and Klose are tied with 16, and then Ronaldo Nazario is in third with 15 career World Cup goals. The only other active player in the top 10? Sir Harry Kane, tied on 10th amongst a whole bunch of players with 10.
Kylian Mbappe doesn't have the same crazy gene
Now, Messi is probably in his last World Cup, so this record is 100 percent going to go to Mbappe no matter what, and with more games and an expanded field, it is, as Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thierry Henry pointed out onthe FOX broadcast, even easier for future players to let records tumble.
But what is interesting is the mentality of Kylian Mbappe in this battle with Messi at the current World Cup to be the Golden Boot, with Messi currently one goal ahead of the Frenchman. Mbappe has always looked to Cristiano Ronaldo as his idol, even emulating his first Real Madrid press conference, but he shares a different mentality than Cristiano did.
When speaking about keeping up with Messi, Mbappe had a bit of a surprising take, via Fabrizio Romano, “I don't look at what Leo does. He's always scored, he scores, and he will always score. I've already said it! If I want to look at what he does, I'll have to do even more”.
If it were Cristiano Ronaldo, he would always be obsessively looking at what Lionel Messi is doing and then doing that "even more" to the maximum to make sure he took Messi down. Obviously, he could not really do that with Portugal because of how Portugal played and the lack of talent around him, but imagine if he had the squad Mbappe does at France or Messi does now at Argentina.
Mbappe is his own person. He has his own motivations, and he is shattering records with France that his idol could have never dreamed of. But for Real Madrid fans who want him to be that ruthless person like Cristiano, the reality is that this is not who he is, and Madridistas need to accept that, because it is perfectly fine, as much as they wish he were as crazy as Cris.
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