{"id":487417,"date":"2026-02-24T10:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487417\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:03:10","slug":"mbappe-eyeing-historic-feat-for-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487417\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbapp\u00e9 Eyeing Historic Feat For Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

All things considered, it has been a fairly quiet week for Kylian Mbapp\u00e9. After riding the bench in their 4-1 win against Real Sociedad, Mbapp\u00e9 returned to the starting XI in Lisbon, where, despite bagging an assist, he was unable to assert his presence in a 1-0 win against Benfica in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League knockout playoffs. It was more of the same on Saturday, where he cut an isolated figure in contrast to the far more animated and effective Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior, as Real Madrid fell to a 2-1 defeat at Osasuna and relinquished the top spot to Barcelona. But as Real Madrid fans are well aware, form is temporary, class is permanent. And even after an inconspicuous run of matches, there\u2019s every reason to believe that Mbapp\u00e9 will turn it around in the second leg and deliver the goods against Benfica.<\/p>\n

When Real Madrid signed Mbapp\u00e9 in 2024, the Frenchman had just finished a season that saw him claim a sixth consecutive Ligue 1 Golden Boot as well as a maiden UEFA Champions League Golden Boot. As Paris Saint Germain\u2019s all-time leading scorer as well as the seventh-highest scorer in Ligue 1 history, Mbapp\u00e9 was expected to make a seamless transition to life in Spain and enjoy a trophy-laden campaign. From an individual perspective, he passed with flying honors, winning his first-ever European Golden Shoe and scoring the most goals in a debut Real Madrid season with 44 goals and 5 assists in 59 appearances. However, it wasn\u2019t enough to spur Los Blancos to glory, and apart from the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Intercontinental Cup, they failed to win a single trophy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been more of the same this season, with Mbapp\u00e9 continuing to break records and prove why he is one of the greatest strikers of the 21st century. After bagging a brace against Ukraine to lead France to World Cup qualification \u2013 and going within two goals of Olivier Giroud as France\u2019s all-time leading scorer \u2013 Mbapp\u00e9 became the youngest player to score 400 goals since Pel\u00e9 in 1964. The following month, meanwhile, would see Mbapp\u00e9 equal Cristiano Ronaldo as the only player to score 59 goals in a calendar year for Real Madrid. He\u2019s continued that stellar form in 2026, breaking the deadlock in a 2-0 win against Levante before scoring three straight braces vs. Monaco, Villarreal, and Benfica, followed by goals against Rayo Vallecano and Valencia and an assist at Benfica.<\/p>\n

Mbapp\u00e9 is leading all LaLiga players in Expected Goals (20.8), goal contributions (27), shots per game (4.8), and shots on target per game (2.2), while he also ranks second behind Lamine Yamal for successful dribbles per game. He\u2019s also ranking third for key passes per game (2.3), whilst only Cristhian Stuani (a goal every 74 minutes) is scoring at a higher frequency than him (88). More importantly, after pipping Lewandowski (27) to the top scorer award with an impressive 31-goal haul, Mbapp\u00e9 looks set to outdo his 2024\/25 tally. He\u2019s racked up 23 goals so far in league play, well above Vedat Muriqi (16), Ante Budimir (12) and Ferran Torres (12), and there\u2019s reason to believe that he can continue stretching that gap over the course of the season.<\/p>\n

This pattern holds true in Europe\u2019s elite competition: Mbapp\u00e9 currently sits atop the Champions League scoring charts with 13 goals, well above second-placed Anthony Gordon (10), whilst only Harry Kane (28 league goals) sits above him in the European Golden Shoe race. And despite only just turning 27, only five players have scored more goals than him (68) in the history of the UEFA Champions League: Ra\u00fal (71), Karim Benzema (90), Robert Lewandowski (107), Lionel Messi (129), and Cristiano Ronaldo (140). It remains to be seen whether Mbapp\u00e9 will overtake Ra\u00fal this season and establish his presence in the Champions League\u2019s top five, but one thing\u2019s for sure: Mbapp\u00e9 is all but confirmed to do something that only a handful of players have done by winning back-to-back Pichichi awards.<\/p>\n

Since its inception in 1929, only a couple of players have managed to finish atop LaLiga\u2019s scoring charts in consecutive seasons. Real Oviedo\u2019s Isidro L\u00e1ngara became the very first to do so from 1933\/34 to 1935\/36. All things considered, L\u00e1ngara scored 17 goals in 12 Spain caps, he boasts the highest goal-to-game ratio in LaLiga<\/a> history at 1.14, and he was also the first player to score at least 100 goals for three clubs and the only one to achieve it on three continents. It wasn\u2019t until Telmo Zarra came around a decade later that L\u00e1ngara\u2019s achievements started to pale in comparison, with the Spaniard finishing with the Golden Boot in 1944\/45, 1945\/46, 1946\/47, 1949\/50, 1950\/51, and 1952\/53. Whilst he remained LaLiga\u2019s all-time leading scorer with 251 goals before being usurped by Lionel Messi six decades later, he remains Athletic Club\u2019s all-time leading scorer to this day. Zarra was kicked off the top of the scoring charts by Alfredo Di St\u00e9fano in 1953\/54, with the Real Madrid striker claiming the Pichichi in 1955\/56, 1956\/57, 1957\/58 (alongside two other players) and 1958\/59.<\/p>\n

As the \u201850s transitioned to the \u201860s, the Saeta Rubia made way for another elite striker to make his name in Spain\u2019s top-flight for Real Madrid \u2013 Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s \u2013 who finished atop the charts in 1959\/60, 1960\/61, 1962\/63 and 1963\/64. Atl\u00e9tico Madrid\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Eulogio G\u00e1rate was also able to achieve this unique feat after finishing atop the scoring charts in 1968\/69 alongside Real Madrid\u2019s Amancio, before sharing the top spot with Amancio and teammate Luis Aragon\u00e9s the following year, and then finishing atop the scoring charts alongside Barcelona\u2019s Carles Rexach in 1970\/71. In addition to leading Argentina to their first-ever World Cup, Valencia\u2019s Mario Kempes was able to come away with back-to-back Pichichis in 1976\/77 and 1977\/78.<\/p>\n

Quini, having won his first three Golden Boots with Sporting Gij\u00f3n in 1973\/74, 1975\/76, and 1979\/80, was able to continue his fantastic form with Barcelona after bagging two more top scorer awards in 1980\/81 and 1981\/82. And after claiming the 1984\/85 Pichichi with Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, Mexican striker Hugo S\u00e1nchez made the move across the Spanish capital and won four of the next five Golden Boots for Los Blancos. It wasn\u2019t until 23 years later that another player was able to claim back-to-back Pichichis, with Lionel Messi winning it in 2011\/12 and 2012\/13 before watching as Ronaldo won the next two. And whilst Luis Su\u00e1rez would edge both players to the award with a barely believable 40 goals in 35 matches, Messi would proceed to win five consecutive Pichichi awards before departing for Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether or not Mbapp\u00e9 can spur Real Madrid to a record 16th Champions League title, or if he can help them wrestle the league back from Barcelona and secure a record 37th championship, but one thing\u2019s for sure: he\u2019s all but guaranteed to become one of the only players in the history of the Spanish top-flight to win back-to-back Pichichis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All things considered, it has been a fairly quiet week for Kylian Mbapp\u00e9. After riding the bench in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[108924,84439,403,99],"class_list":["post-487417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-managing-madrid-editorials","tag-real-madrid-cf-players","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}