PARIS (AP) — Kylian Mbappé broke the France scoring record with two goals against Senegal at the World Cup on Tuesday.The 27-year-old Real Madrid striker reached 58 goals, during a 3-1 victory for France, to move one ahead of Olivier Giroud, who has retired from the national team.He will look to add to his tally when his country faces Iraq in Philadelphia on Monday. It concludes Group I action against Norway in Boston four days later.Mbappé’s first goal for Les Bleus came nine years ago. Here’s a look at some other statistics during his France career:14Number of goals Mbappé has scored in World Cups. Two at this tournament; eight in 2022, where he earned the Golden Boot trophy as top scorer; and four in 2018. He has moved past countryman Just Fontaine’s tally of 13 — all scored at the 1958 World Cup. Former Germany striker Miroslav Klose and Argentina’s Lionel Messi — who scored a brilliant hat trick just hours after Mbappé’s brace — share the record of 16 World Cup goals.
3 Mbappé’s hat tricks for France. His first was a four-goal haul playing alongside Karim Benzema in a World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan in 2021. His next came against Argentina in the 2022 World Cup final, and the other during a record 14-0 rout of Gibraltar in a European Championship qualifier in 2023.
