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Manchester United forward, Marcus Rashford is in awe of PSG attacker, Kylian Mbappé's astonishing performance against Barcelona at Camp Nou on Tuesday in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) Round of 16.
Mbappe, 22, netted a hat-trick to help the French giants to a 4-1 victory in Spain.
Rashford, whose team was undone by PSG in the UCL group stages went on his verified Twitter handle to applaud the young French world-cup winner.
"What a performance @KMbappe," Rashford wrote, with a fire emoji.
What a performance @KMbappe ? https://t.co/TBoXyCsUd3
— Marcus Rashford MBE (@MarcusRashford) February 16, 2021
In the absence of Neymar and Angel Di Maria, who were missing through injury for PSG, Mbappe went on to produce three fine finishes to become only the third player to score a treble in the competition against Barcelona, after Faustino Asprilla for Newcastle and Andriy Shevchenko for Dynamo Kiev (both in 1997) and the first player to score a hat-trick against the Spanish club in the knockout phase.
? Hat-trick hero Kylian Mbappé takes the prize after THAT devastating display in Barcelona ⚽️⚽️⚽️#UCLPOTM | #UCL pic.twitter.com/ngFqYSgvTu
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) February 16, 2021
But on what was a truly special night for PSG, he could have had more goals but for some fine saves from Marc-Andre Ter Stegen.
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With 110 goals now to his name, Mbappe is already PSG's third-highest goalscorer in all competitions, overtaking Pauleta (109). Now only Edinson Cavani (200) and Zlatan Ibrahimovic (156) have netted more for PSG, but, if he stays at the club those records will not be intact for long.
He has also drawn level with Zinedine Zidane with eight goals in the list of the top goalscorers in the UCL knockout stages, with just Thierry Henry (12) and Karim Benzema (18) ahead of him.
Mbappe ?
— SuperSport ? (@SuperSportTV) February 16, 2021
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Is this his best performance for PSG in the #UCL? pic.twitter.com/OzVu9rCG0a
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