Mbappé’s 6 minute hat trick and the “Only Salah” record

Mane did his hat trick in under three minutes in the league, Mbappe and Salah are insane but that Sadio run still feels like a glitch from another era.
 
From a betting angle those old runs are almost impossible now, every restart is slower, more checks, more subs, to score three or five that quick again you need perfect chaos.
 
Yeah VAR and auto checks kill the vibe and the rhythm, good luck getting five goals in under ten minutes when the ref spends thirty seconds after every restart with the finger on his ear.
 
Also this whole fastest from first goal metric is a bit arbitrary, Mbappe scored three in under seven minutes which is crazy but he still needed almost half an hour to get going that night.
 
Exactly, twenty nine minute hat trick is still elite, nobody in a dressing room cares when you start the stopwatch, it is just trivia for us.
 
ONLY MO style records are fun but people go too far with them, you end up arguing about seconds instead of just admitting these guys are ridiculous at football.
 
as a spurs fan im still traumatised by salah that rangers game was pure cruelty and now mbappe is out here chasing his weird little records too 😂
 
Only Salah was the meme for years and now Mbappe is speed running the same list, if he ever gets that ballon the internet will explode.
 
You could see how huge the pitch looked for Madrid against Olympiacos, so many gaps, perfect scenario for a sprinter like him 😂 no way they trained for that kind of pressure all game.
 
On the Neymar thing, pure talent wise I still think Ney was the most gifted from that generation of nineties kids but Mbappe is stacking a cleaner legacy between world cups and Champions League numbers.
 
Neymar at Barca and early PSG felt different to me, the dribbling and playmaking were unreal, shame the injuries and the partying story ruined how people remember him now.
 
For me Mbappe already passed him while they were team mates in Paris, younger, fitter and every big game felt like it was running through him more than Ney by the end.
 
mbappe also has that world cup run and almost back to back finals, until neymar has a tournament like that you can not really call their legacies equal in my eyes.
 
If we are talking legacy from nineties born players you have to put Kroos and De Bruyne in the mix, their consistency and trophies at club level clear most attackers who only had four elite seasons.
 
I still think if you drop Neymar into that France 2018 side they probably win it too, Brazil squads around him never had that same depth in every line and that hurts how people rate his international career.
 
Ney in the Champions League was unreal though, that Barca treble, then dragging PSG to a final, plus those knockout masterclasses, if he had stayed fitter the debate with Mbappe would be a lot closer.
 
People forget how good PSG Neymar was before the ankles gave up, he was a beast in most big European nights, it is not just rainbow flicks and parties like the memes say.
 
some of you definitely didnt watch him for ninety minutes, you just saw comps on twitter and now act like mbappe washed him completely, stop rewriting history lad.
 
Availability still matters though, Neymar lost entire world cup campaigns to injuries, Mbappe turning up every two years with full tournaments is a massive edge for all time status.
 
Mbappe being called easily the best player born in the nineties is wild but low key fair, he has the goals, the international finals and he is still only twenty six.
 
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