Kylian Mbappé leapfrogs one Barcelona star & closes on another: La Liga top-scorer latest

The podium pecking order in the race for this season’s La Liga top-scorer prize underwent a change over the weekend.

This came owing to developments in Real Madrid’s meeting with Las Palmas.

Carlo Ancelotti’s troops are of course fresh off a dominant victory on Sunday, which saw Real recover from an early goal down to emerge on the right side of a 4-1 result.

The star of the show on the evening was Kylian Mbappé, who notched a brace, as well as seeing another goal disallowed for the narrowest of offsides.

In the midst of a vastly improved recent spell of form, as much means that Mbappé has leapfrogged Barcelona star Raphinha into 2nd in the Pichichi race.

The Frenchman now has 12 La Liga goals, to Raphinha’s 11.

Another Blaugrana attacker, in Robert Lewandowski, remains top of the pile, but his previously significant advantage over Mbappé has now been cut to just four goals.

Conor Laird – GSFN