Real Madrid superstar within touching distance of a special record held by Cristiano Ronaldo | OneFootball

Kylian Mbappe could not have got off to a better start to La Liga as he scored the winning goal for the team against Osasuna on Matchday 1 and then went on to net a brace in the team’s win over Real Oviedo.

Last season’s Pichichi winner, Mbappe clearly has no intention of slowing down and is in red-hot scoring form and he will look to keep the momentum going when Real Madrid take on Mallorca later tonight.

Mbappe has scored three goals in his first two league games thrice in his career already, and his personal best came in the 2023-24 season where he scored a staggering seven goals in his first four Ligue 1 games for PSG.

Nearing a legend’s record

The French superstar signed off from La Liga last season on a blazing goalscoring streak as he scored nine goals in the team’s last five games in the competition. That included a hat-trick against Barcelona and braces against Real Sociedad and Celta Vigo.

Mbappe has been in fine form. (Photo by Juan Manuel Serrano Arce/Getty Images)

Having now scored in the first two matchdays of the new season, Mbappe has scored in seven straight games for Real Madrid and is nearing the club record for finding the back of the net in consecutive games.

In fact, his tally of scoring in seven league games in a row is already the second best in the club’s history alongside greats like Ferenc Puskas.

The absolute record, unsurprisingly, is held by Cristiano Ronaldo who scored in ten consecutive Matchdays for Real Madrid in the 2014-15 season.

At that time, the Portuguese legend scored from Matchdays 3 to 12 and was unstoppable, finding the back of the net 19 times in that duration. Mbappe is within touching distance of that record and will back himself to beat it.

Lionel Messi, notably, scored in 19 consecutive games for Barcelona as he completed half the season scoring in every league game back in 2012-13.