• The France team qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Cup after easily beating Poland on Sunday evening at the Al-Thumama stadium in Doha.

  • Author of a double, his second since the start of the competition, Kylian Mbappé is the top scorer in the World Cup with five goals.

  • Mute since his arrival in Qatar, the player ended up speaking up to say that his only dream was to win the World Cup.

From our Special Envoy in Doha,

Silence, it's playing.

And it tumbles at any ball on the left side, it crashes, it panics the counters and it knocks out everything in its path.

Murdered in silence since the start of this World Cup, going so far as to zap the media obligations of FIFA which want the man of the match to appear at a press conference after the matches, Kylian Mbappé “speaks with his feet”, as Didier Deschamps rightly said, Sunday, after the victory of the Blues against Poland.

And judging by his indecent performance in the round of 16, with this space double, his second already in this World Cup, the boy has rather a nice phrasing.



Sitting alone in first place in the scorers' rankings with already five pawns to his credit in three games, the PSG striker is already at nine in total in the premier event of world football.

But we won't talk to you about numbers, not tonight.

Already because we have already done it after his first double against Denmark and it is not in our habits to repeat ourselves – although with Kylian, we are sometimes obliged – but also because Youssouf Fofana kindly advised in the mixed zone after the match.

“Nine goals is huge, huge!

Afterwards, with Kylian, we know that this is only the beginning, he is not turning 24, so we are not going to start counting right away.

But what he is already doing there is extraordinary, he carries the team.

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Lloris speaks of "two anthology goals"

Hard to say anything else now.

Because what we sensed of him at the start of the competition, this ability to constantly meet the ever crazier expectations placed on him, is taking shape before our amazed eyes.

Sunday, his first goal, this powerful strike with the flat foot right in the skylight of Szczesny, is not that beautiful.

It's beautiful AND it counts because it's the station wagon.

The one that makes the Poles understand that, well, it's nice to be past the guys, but now it's about giving way to the big guys.

“He scored two important goals, finally… One above all because he scored it at a very important moment, to make the break and close the match”, confirms Jules Koundé.

And what about the second?

Mamma mia!

His special, of course, this curled right from the left corner of the penalty area towards the opposite lulu, but with such a forest of legs in front of him that one could believe the ball was literally remote-controlled.

Passed in the mixed zone after a performance also to salute, Adrien Rabiot was just as amazed as us.

“Mbappe?

He doesn't surprise me in the sense that I know his potential and his qualities, but it's true that these two goals are incredible!

The positions in which he puts them, the angles he finds, it's great.

That's what we expect of him: we work hard behind and we wait for him to do the job in front, and that's what he does, he always responds.

“Not knowing what to say about the glutton of Bondy, Hugo Lloris will have only one sentence, only one,

Mbappé breaks the silence and announces the color

If almost all the players have now stopped at our microphones / telephones / dictaphones in the mixed zone after the four games that the Blues have had to play, Mbappé is the one who still manages to slip through our fingers.

He had even granted himself, as we said at the beginning of the paper, the right to feign his protocol obligations as "man of the match", whose trophy is sponsored by Budweiser, a brand of beer for which he would not feel to promote.

But this decision necessarily has a price in the fabulous world of FIFA where everything is sold: by squeezing the two press conferences after Australia and Denmark, the FFF had to pay a fine of 10,000 euros.

So, made aware of this sanction,

He first explained that he had "nothing against the journalists, nothing against the people", that he just wanted to "focus on the competition" and that he was "undertaking to pay [the fine ] personally ".

But that's obviously not what we came to hear.

That's it: “The World Cup is the competition of my dreams, I built my season on it, I prepared myself physically, mentally.

But we are still far from the goal we have set ourselves, which I have set myself, which is to win, ”he said bluntly.

Asked about his dream of winning the Ballon d'Or next year, Mbappé made it clear that the subject was not there: "To be honest no [he does not think about that], the only objective is to win the World Cup.

It's my dream, my only dream, that's why I came here.

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