Currently ranking ninth in Champions League history, Kylian Mbappe will have to wait how long to top Cristiano Ronaldo’s mark? We have worked through the figures.
Dominating the European scene for almost two decades, CR7 scored a record 140 goals in 183 outings.Ronaldo not only holds the record for most goals but also boasts the most assists in the annals of the competition—42.
Mbappe has a great record in Europe with 52 goals in 82 games, but he is still waiting to take his first UCL trophy. The Frenchman loved Ronaldo growing up, and the Portuguese player recently offered some advise to the 26-year-old. It’s not surprising.
“I love [Mbappe], not just because of his story as a kid, how he loved Cristiano, I was his idol,” Ronaldo told El Chiringuito. “I regard him as a top player.
“It’s complicated; he doesn’t know how to play as a forward in my view, or rather, it’s not that he doesn’t know, but it’s not his position.
“If I were at Madrid, I would show him how to perform as a number nine.
I was not a forward. I get acclimated to it, but I was a winger. People forget that. Though not in line with most forward, I was a forward. [Mbappe] shouldn’t be a normal forward, he should do things his own. Mbappe, who started his tenure at Madrid very slowly, has since regained some form with 11 goals in his previous 10 outings for the team.
Scoring Madrid’s opening goal of the game, the Frenchman also took front stage during Real Madrid’s first-leg UCL victory against Manchester City. After crunching the figures, we have calculated Mbappe’s likely breakthrough time using Ronaldo’s UCL goalscasing record.
