"Like a video game challenge", Mbappé is indeed the "cheatcode" of the Blues

• Still author of a double against Poland, in the round of 16 of the World Cup, Kylian Mbappé continues to dominate the World of his person.

• Nicknamed "the Bondy cheatcode" on social networks, the PSG player is indeed a weapon of mass destruction in the possession of Didier Deschamps.

• We have tried to compare his role to that of Tom Cruise in the cinema or the “summer hit” in music.

Wojciech Szczęsny had warned, before the round of 16 of the World Cup: “I am the key to stopping Mbappé.

Two goals and an assist later, the Juve goalkeeper left to console the heir and packed his bags for Turin.

Well done, artist.

On Monday, the

, a little more cautious, a short week before his flock faced the Blues in the quarter-finals, was delighted that Gareth Southgate had taken three right-backs in his list to block Bondy's TGV.

Sufficient ?

Of course not.

Because the number 10 of the Blues is unstoppable.

Even when he leaves an average match, he is able to send two minasses out of nowhere to send his people to the next round.

The "Bondy cheatcode", as he is nicknamed on social networks, on evenings when he treats.

As if Didier Deschamps had decided, when his team was in difficulty, to take his small tablet, to type “Kylian, put me the boxon in the defense” and to watch the damage caused by the missile.

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• Is Mbappé to football what the cheatcode up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B and A is to Konami?

Everyone who grew up in the 1990s and 2000s remembers this little manipulation on their controller to open the doors to new worlds.

Well, with Kylian Mbappé, it's the same thing.

Activate the "Kyky de Bondy" and you can have two (or even three) stars, records to not know what to do with.

“I don't know if Mbappé is a cheatcode, because even if he is a very strong player, he does not make the matches completely unbalanced, tempers Cyrille de Monneron, developer and video game creator.

We could talk about a cheated or OP [overpower] football player.

“Reading the reactions of the opponents of the PSG player, we still have the impression of having in front of us a creature straight out of Microsoft Studios.

Take Matty Cash, the Polish right-back, who spent his game on Sunday taking hazelnuts in the head: "I spent the afternoon watching his clips, but I watch the videos lying down in my bed.

In real life, it burns my legs.

He is on a different level.

Speed, movement, look at his finish, he has it all.

As if we had boosted all his characteristics to the maximum.

And even if you manage to control the game (and the player) for a while, there will always come a time when, with his big hooves, he will come and put you game over.

“Mbappé is in a way a final boss for each team, resumes Cyrille de Monneron.

Defeating France with a player like him in front is probably one of the most complicated challenges of the World Cup.

"And don't go making the analogy with the cheatcodes that we could find in

and

which allowed you to put giant heads on your characters, Kylian Mbappé "has no ego" , repeated Didier Deschamps.

If DD said it, it's true, right?

• Is Mbappé to football what the Tom Cruise cheatcode is to cinema?

Having Kylian Mbappé in his team is necessarily a guarantee of success (we did not say a title).

A bit like showing a movie with Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise?

“Today, there is no longer anyone whose name alone is synonymous with success, except perhaps Brad Pitt, explains

film specialist Caroline Vié.

Do the films work thanks to him, yes, no doubt.

wouldn't have done such good numbers if it wasn't for Brad Pitt.

He manages to bring people to theaters, he's one of the only ones, with Tom Cruise, who is a team on his own.

»

That does not prevent, sometimes the big disappointments, on both sides.

Elimination at the Euro, with the missed penalty against Switzerland for Mbappé, the film

, released in 2017, which was a huge flop in the United States.

But the comparison with football stops there: “In the cinema, an actor cannot change the situation on his own if the film is rotten, continues Caroline Vié.

In a team, the players have well-defined roles, and someone can change the situation on their own.

Like Mbappé against Poland, Denmark and so many other countries before this World Cup.

As long as we are on Tom Cruise, we noticed that Kylian Mbappé was also coming, like the Scientologist (be careful, danger) to bring back more and more followers.

Even the most refractory, who at the start of their career saw in Mbappé a vulgar Djamel Bakar, have become real Mbappistas.

It only remains for him to convince, once again, the supporters of Real Madrid that he is still the man they need.

Two, three outings of madness will be enough to bring them back to the right path.

• Is Mbappé to football what the “summer hit” cheatcode is to music?

If we talk to you about Sabrina, Lou Bega or Luis Fonsi, you answer directly:

,

and

, of course.

Only summer hits on which their authors have surfed for years.

So, to succeed in laying such hits, and doing almost nothing behind it, there is indeed a special cheatcode: “Not a miracle recipe, rather ingredients, answers Alain Pozzuoli, author of

(ed .

The Layer).

The common point is a melody, because it has to stay in your head, a gimmick and a text that's not too complicated.

»

A bit like for Kylian Mbappé who, match after match, surfs on the same melody, that of the best player in the world, who is starting to get into the heads of all his opponents.

For the gimmick, you don't have to look very far: a goal celebration known to all, and a few expressions that have already been around the world: "Nooooow, defense, men" or "You don't talk to me about 'age ".

It can be annoying, but it stays in your head.

Like

.

"But that's not always enough, it depends on a lot of things, like the bludgeoning," continues the author.

If a song plays ten times a day on the radio, it is likely to “infect” the public.

“A bit like Kylian’s inside foot strikes which almost all end up in the skylight by dint of repeating them.

"A lot of singers have the same ingredients, but for some it doesn't work", concludes Alain Pozzuoli.

Kylian Mbappé, often imitated, never equaled.

Marco Asensio knows something about it.

No need to talk about it again in two years.

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