Jude Bellingham lauded yet another landmark moment in the career of Kylian Mbappe after the Frenchman marked his Champions League debut for Real Madrid with a goal. (More Football News)
Mbappe, who has five goals in his first seven games for his new club, opened the scoring in Lo🐻s Blancos' 3-1 win over Stuttgart on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old's effort saw him net his 49th Champions League goal, with only Robert Lewandowski (61) scoring more in the competition since M﷽bappe's debut.
He 💝also became the second Frenchman to score on his debut for Madrid in the competition, joining Christian Karembeu who netted against Bayer Leverkusen in 1998.
Bellingham explained how quickly Mbappe has settled into life in the Spanish𒊎 capital, saying:&nbs🎀p;"He's going to be a huge player for us, this season and beyond.
"He always delivers so far, it'🥂s a lot of pressure coming to a club like Madrid, but he's taken to it really easilไy and the lads love him already."
The🐻 encounter against Stuttgart also marked Bellingham's return to the side after the England midfielder missed the last four games wiܫth a muscle injury.
Up𒁃on his return, Bellingham won more t🌳ackles (two) and accumulated the highest pass accuracy (93.3%) of anyone in the Los Blancos side.
Across all competitions last year, Belling🔯ham made 42 appearances, notching 23 goals and laying on a further 13 assists in his debut year at ဣthe Santiago Bernabeu.
Having also starred for England at Euro 2024, the 21ꦑ-year-old was excited to be back out on the pitch and is ai𒊎ming for more success this term.
"Three-and-a-half weeks [out] has been difficult. I've not beꦫen injured a lot in my career, so whenever it happens, I'm a bit impatient," he said.
൲“But this time I wanted to take it slowly and agreed this would be the game I came back in – maybe off the bench – but I was buzzing to start.
"In the first half I left it all out there, I was that excited and all over the place, just wanting to create and get i𝄹n the box.
“Second half, I probably just ran out of a bit of stea🐻m, so I stayed a little bit deeper, but I'm getting used to being back, finding my feet again and I'm sure I'll be fine this🥀 season."
