Mbappé breaks Madrid record with Clásico hat trick

Kylian Mbappé broke the grounds for the astir goals scored successful a debut play astatine Real Madrid aft scoring a chapeau instrumentality successful the team's 4-3 nonaccomplishment to Barcelona connected Sunday that each but sealed the LaLiga rubric for their rivals.

Mbappé's 3 goals took his play full to 39 goals successful each competitions successful 2024-25, overtaking erstwhile record-holder Ivan Zamorano, who scored 37 times successful the 1992-93 season.

"Mbappé did well. The chances we had were precise clear, we attacked the abstraction well," Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti said aft the match. "We scored three, and we could person scored more. In attack, the squad had a wide idea. But we could person defended better. In the archetypal 30 minutes, we should person done better. We mustn't hide that we were missing 5 defenders today."

Mbappé opened the scoring successful Sunday's LaLiga crippled astatine Montjuïc with a fifth-minute penalty, earlier doubling the visitors' pb successful the 14th minute, though Barcelona soon fought backmost to pb 4-2 astatine halftime.

The France forward completed his chapeau instrumentality with an casual decorativeness connected 70 minutes to constrictive the people astatine 4-3, but Madrid could not implicit the fightback and present way Barcelona by 7 points with 3 games to play.

"Twice, we had the accidental to marque it 4-4. It was an adjacent game, we competed and fought until the past second," Ancelotti added. "We scored and it was offside. Against a large team, 2 large teams, there's thing to reproach my squad successful presumption of cognition and commitment. It didn't crook retired well, but we competed."

Mbappé faced immoderate disapproval for his signifier earlier successful the play but has scored consistently each campaign, including successful 3 of Madrid's 4 Clásicos against Barça.

Last month, the helium overtook Cristiano Ronaldo's 33-goal tally from 2009-10 erstwhile helium netted successful Madrid's 3-2 nonaccomplishment successful the Copa del Rey final.

His extremity successful the Spanish Supercopa last successful January besides wasn't capable to forestall a 5-2 decision to Madrid's Clásico rivals.

Mbappé said earlier this play that his goals would beryllium "all for nothing" if Madrid didn't present by winning large trophies.

The squad person won the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Intercontinental Cup this season, but mislaid the Supercopa and Copa del Rey finals, portion they were eliminated from the Champions League astatine the quarterfinal stage.