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Kylian Mbappe is the eighth-highest Champions League scorer, but when will he surpass Cristiano Ronaldo? We worked the numbers. CR7 ruled Europe for two decades, scoring a record 140 goals in 183 games. Ronaldo has 42 assists and the most goals in competition history.

Mbappe has 52 goals in 82 European games but has yet to win a UCL title. Ronaldo provided the 26-year-old counsel after the Frenchman idolized him as a child.

“I love [Mbappe], not just because of his story as a kid, how he loved Cristiano, I was his idol,” Ronaldo told El Chiringuito. I consider him a top player.

I think it’s complicated because he doesn’t know how to play forward—or rather, it’s not his position. When I was in Madrid, I would teach him to play number nine.

“I wasn’t forward. I adjusted, but I was a winger. People forget. I was an unusual forward. I think Mbappe should do things his way, not like a traditional forward.” After a rocky start at Madrid, Mbappe has scored 11 goals in his last 10 games.

The Frenchman scored Madrid’s first goal in their first-leg UCL win over Manchester City. We calculated Mbappe’s realistic time to beat Ronaldo’s UCL goalscoring record.