Kylian Mbappe broke new ground on Monday by scoring five goals in Paris Saint-Germain7-0 destruction of sixth place team Pays de Cassel in Coupe de France.
Victory guarantees a safe progression from the round of 32 for the defending champions, and maintaining Lionel Messi’s hopes of lifting the trophy he has tried and failed to win in his senior career.
As well as taking his total goal tally for PSG in all competitions this season to 25 in just 24 games, Mbappe also became the first player to score five goals in an official match for PSG.
To complete his skillful performance, the 24-year-old striker also scored an assist for Neymar to score PSG’s second goal of the night, before the Brazilian then became a supplier for Carlos Soler to add his faction’s sixth right after the hour mark.
All scored from the 29th to the 79th minute, Mbappe’s five-goal against Pays de Cassel also marked the biggest single-match scoring record of his career to date, surpassing all four. The goal he scored for PSG in a 5-0 Ligue 1 win ended Lyon in the year 2018-19.
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Highlights of our win 🆚 US Pays de Cassel (0-7) in @coupedefrance! 🔴🔵@KMbappe ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️@Neymar jr ️@Carlos10Soler ️#USPCPSG pic.twitter.com/CFSUQQEShS
– Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_English) January 24, 2023
But how do his trophy-winning heroes stack up against the biggest goalscorers in a match recorded by his most illustrious contemporaries in the men’s game? Here they are, listed first by goal count and then in alphabetical order.
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The reigning Ballon d’Or has scored 10 career hat-tricks so far: 8 for Real Madrid and twice earlier in his career for hometown club Lyon. Perhaps his most iconic hat-trick was against the defending champions Chelsea in the first leg of the 2021-22 Champions League quarter-finals, which featured a string of two headed goals within three minutes as the eventual winners claimed a 3-1 win at Stamford Bridge.
Ibra has scored four goals on four separate occasions in his career: twice with Paris Saint-Germain and twice for Sweden. The most famous example is undoubtedly his single-handed crushing of England in a friendly in 2012, when the striker sealed a 4-2 victory for the Swedes with an extremely dangerous long-range shot in the area. last minute. Not a bad climax for the first ever football match at Friends Arena in Stockholm.
️ #On this day in 2017 we passed Leicester six times! 👊#THFC ️ #COYS pic.twitter.com/uqHZTmos3V
– Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) May 18, 2019
Kane has scored 19 hat-tricks in his professional career, despite having scored twice for a fourth: once for Tottenham Hotspur in the previous 6-1 win Leicester City in 2017, and again in England’s 10-0 thrashing of San Marino in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, which featured the legendary “perfect” hat trick (scoring with left foot, right foot and header) . The Spurs forward also set a new Premier League record with an impressive 4 assists in a game and all to the same teammate, constantly creating opportunities for Son Heung Min to finish with a 5-2 win at Southampton in 2020.
Salah has conquered the Premier League like a storm in his first season in Liverpool in 2017-18, scoring an incredible 32 goals in 36 league appearances to win the first of his three Golden Boot awards. A combination of Salah’s sublime dribbling and Watford’s desperate defense helped Egypt concede four times in a 5-0 win at Anfield, and he even assisted. table left for Roberto Firmino.
On this day in 2015 ️@Lewy_Official Score 5️⃣ goals in 9️⃣ minutes! 🐐
Impractical perfection from @FCBayernEN star. 😵 pic.twitter.com/KEixX1XIS7
– English Bundesliga (@Bundesliga_EN) September 22, 2021
Lewandowski only took 9 minutes to score all 5 goals in the match Bayern Munich5-1 win over Wolfsburg in the 2015-16 Bundesliga season. Furthermore, the Polish poacher only came on as a substitute at half-time when his team were leading 1-0.
#OTD 2012: Leo Messi becomes the first player in #UCL history records YEAR in a game ️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ #On this day | @FCBarcelona pic.twitter.com/FMOwi6Xx5H
– UEFA Championship (@ChampionsLeague) March 7, 2020
Messi has scored 5 goals in a match twice in his career with the first being his record-breaking performance for Barcelona against Bayer Leverkusen in 2012, in which the striker became the first person to score five goals in a Champions League match. The second case took place last year, when Messi scored all five of Argentina’s goals in a 5-0 win over Estonia in an international friendly on neutral ground in Spain, becoming the first scored. Albiceleste players do so since 1942.
Neymar (5)
#NesteDia 🗓 Esse dia foi LOUCO! @Neymar jr marcou 5 gols no mesmo jogo
April 14, 2010 #neymarpedia – Santos 8-1 Guarani | Brazilian Football Championship#neymar #Neymar jr #njr #santos #santosfc pic.twitter.com/3CWdivoz6g
– Neymar Jr Website (@NeymarJrSite) April 14, 2022
Neymar has four times scored four times in a game, but his career record comes in his first years in Santos when the striker scored five goals in a Copa do Brasil match against Guarani in 2010.
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Sit back and enjoy a performance of five goals from @Cristiano tonight in #LaLigaClassic!
️ Espanyol and @realmadriden (15/16)
📺 From 8pm BST onwards #LaLigaTV pic.twitter.com/Rg3uxwHgHz– LaLigaTV (@LaLigaTV) September 3, 2021
Out of 60 (sixty!) hat-trick, Ronaldo also twice scored five goals in a single game during his long and prolific career – the first was a whirlwind of five goals in Real Madrid’s 9-1 destruction of Granada in LaLiga. in April 2015. The Portuguese striker then repeated the feat with Los Blancos just four months after he scored five goals and an assist in the previous 6-0 win Espanyol next season.
Before his peak years when he scored a lot of goals for Liverpool and Barcelona, young Suarez helped himself to 6 goals for Ajax in a huge 14-1 win over minnows WHC Wezep in the round of 16 KNVB Beker.
Never have #U20WC witness a hat-trick of a hat-trick in a match
⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️🇳🇴 Erling Haland, ladies and gentlemen pic.twitter.com/w6O9CljOh6
– FIFA (@FIFAcom) May 31, 2019
Haaland is on track to break multiple Premier League goalscoring records with City of Manchester this season but, throughout his career, the Norwegian striker has scored a maximum of four goals in a single game – a feat he has achieved with both Borussia Dortmund and FK Molde.
His overall record, however, is an astounding nine goals in a single game, set when he played for his country in a 12-0 win over Honduras at the 2019 Under-20 World Cup.
Haaland’s formidable hat-trick of hat-tricks is the most goals scored by a man in a single FIFA World Cup match at any level.
Give a thought to your city comrades Julian Alvarezwho joined the club from River Plate not long after that scored six goals in a Copa Libertadores match and a World Cup winner, but still saw Haaland score a hat-trick against Wolves on Sunday from the bench at the Etihad.
