Kylian Mbappe, the French ahead who has change into Real Madrid‘s fundamental attacking drive, transformed an 86th-minute penalty in opposition to Sevilla on Saturday to attain his 59th aim of 2025 for the membership.
The strike tied Cristiano Ronaldo’s report for many objectives by a Actual Madrid participant in a calendar yr, a mark the Portuguese legend set again in 2013.
What made the second much more memorable was how he celebrated the aim. As a substitute of his standard routine, he jumped and carried out Ronaldo’s well-known “Siuuu” gesture in entrance of the Bernabeu crowd.
The penalty secured a 2-0 victory for Madrid and capped off a exceptional yr for the 27-year-old, who was celebrating his birthday on the identical day. ESPN FC reported the information on X (previously Twitter), exhibiting Mbappe’s tribute to the participant he grew up idolizing.
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