As the match finished in a heated, physical battle between the two teams. France beat Paraguay 1-0 with Kylian Mbappé’s 70th minute penalty.
The first half of the match ended 0-0. It has billions of dollars’ worth of talent. France on the field had no success with goal scoring but created five goal attempts with 75 % ball possession, while counterpart Paraguay had just 24% ball possession with two goal attempts.
In two minutes of added time in the first, Mbps made very poor decisions, faced with having two defenders in front of him, and he had several passing options around him, but decided to place the ball between the two defenders.
Starting from the beginning of the second half, Paraguay were an aggressive, managed attacking force of France. Although they didn’t even have any good attack against France, they still balance on 0-0 until the quality of movement of the Desire Doue of France penetration into Paraguay’s defense made Diego Gomez of Paraguay concede a foul which led to penalty taking by Kalian Mbappé’s which making him second in 2026 golden race as haven Messi in first. Below is the comprehensive list of golden boot races.
7 goals: Lionel Messi, Argentina
7 goals: Kalian Mbps, France
5 goals: Erling Haaland, Norway
5 goals: Harry Kane, England
4 goals: Vinícius Junior Brazil
4 goals:Mikel Oyarzabal , Spain
4 goals: Ousmane Dembélé, France
4 goals: Ismail Sarr , Senegal.
How many goals will he end up with during this year’s campaign ? He’s the second Lionel Messi’s top goalscorer in world history. Here is a chart of the top goalscorers in World Cup History.
Top goalscorers in World Cup history:
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi — 20 goals
🇫🇷 Kylin Mbps — 19 goals
🇩🇪 Miroslav Klose — 16 goals
🇧🇷 Ronaldo — 15 goals
🇩🇪 Gerd Müller — 14 goals
🏴 Harry Kane — 13 goals
🇫🇷 Just Fontaine — 13 goals
Apart from the fact that France won today’s game. I still see Paraguay as a very competitive team who lost a game without no yellow card.