PSG's Kylian Mbappe accused of being selfish towards Lionel Messi vs Strasbourg
Lionel Messi hasn’t exactly been scoring goals for fun at Paris Saint-Germain.
While the Barcelona legend most certainly hasn’t been playing poorly in French football, there’s no denying that Messi‘s record standing at just four goals in 23 Ligue 1 games has shocked fans.
The fact that he continues to rank amongst Europe’s best-performing players doesn’t negate the reality that his goalscoring total in league football has plummeted by 26 strikes compared to last season.
When we’re talking about a player with six European Golden Shoe trophies who once scored 91 goals in a calendar year, such a drastic drop in goalscoring certainly isn’t something to be ignored.
And sadly, time really is running out for Messi to make his PSG statistics look much more aesthetically-pleasing in his debut season with just a handful of games left in the 2021/22 campaign.
The French champions only have clashes with Troyes, Montpellier and Metz left to play before they draw the curtains on what must ultimately go down as a bitterly disappointing season.
And as Messi enters those final three games in the hope of filling his boots with as many goals as possible, he’ll still be ruing the fact that he wasn’t able to elevate his tally against Strasbourg on Friday.
PSG were left to kick themselves as they had to settle for a 3-3 draw at Stade de la Meinau Strasbourg despite leading in stoppage time courtesy of Kylian Mbappe’s brace and an Achraf Hakimi strike.
That’s because the hosts, who had already found the net through Kevin Gameiro and Marco Verratti’s own goal, snatched a point at the death when Anthony Caci volleyed home an equaliser.
And PSG’s failure to win the game was most certainly compounded by the fact that many fans felt as though Messi