Mbappe back with a bang as PSG get ready for grudge match

An impatient Kylian Mbappe is set to make his first start for Paris Saint-Germain in two months this weekend after a blistering return to form off the bench in the Champions League.

The French champions host Marseille at the Parc des Princes on Sunday night in what is no longer much of a rivalry on the field but remains one of the great grudge matches in European football.

How Marseille would love to claim a first win over their bitter foes in almost a decade, but they will not look forward to the prospect of facing a fit-again Mbappe.

The 20-year-old World Cup winner came on as a substitute and scored a rapid blistering hat-trick in PSG's 5-0 demolition of Club Brugge in Belgium on Tuesday.

He doubled his goals tally for the season in the process and showed why he felt he deserved to start for the first time since pulling up with a hamstring injury in a game against Toulouse in late August.

"I wanted to start. The coach made his decision and you have to accept it," Mbappe said.

"I just wanted to come on and show that it is difficult to leave me out of the side."
"But he could only play for as long as we gave him."
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"That is my opinion, given how much they have invested in recent years. The 'Clasico' is a thing of the past."
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