Kylian Mbappe mentioned Sunday he dreamed of profitable the World Cup for a second time after his brace helped France to a 3-1 win over Poland which superior the holders to the quarter-finals in Qatar.
“In fact, this World Cup is an obsession for me, it’s the competitors of my desires,” mentioned the 23-year-old who burst onto the worldwide stage by starring when France gained the title in Russia 4 years in the past.
“I’ve constructed my season round this competitors and round being prepared each bodily and mentally for it.
“I wished to return right here prepared and up to now issues are going properly, however we’re nonetheless a great distance from the target we set and that I set.”
The Paris Saint-Germain famous person now has 5 objectives in simply 4 video games on the match and is already France’s second-top scorer ever on the World Cup with 9 objectives in 11 appearances total.
Solely Simply Fontaine, who scored an unimaginable 13 occasions on the 1958 match in Sweden, has extra World Cup objectives for France.
Nevertheless Mbappe insisted he was not bothered concerning the prospect of profitable the Golden Ball for the match’s finest participant.
“The one goal for me is to win the World Cup which implies now to win the quarter-final,” mentioned Mbappe, who additionally arrange the opening objective towards Poland for Olivier Giroud.
“That’s what I’m dreaming of. I didn’t come right here to win the Golden Ball. That isn’t why I’m right here. I’m right here to win and assist the French nationwide group.”
Whereas the veteran Giroud netted his 52nd worldwide objective to maneuver previous Thierry Henry and turn out to be France’s all-time high scorer, Mbappe was as soon as once more France’s excellent participant.
Mbappe insisted he was not bothered concerning the prospect of profitable the Golden Ball for the match’s finest participant
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He had been named man of the match in France’s opening two wins over Australia and Denmark solely to shun his post-match media duties, exposing the French Soccer Federation to a positive from FIFA because of this.
Nevertheless, this time he confirmed as much as communicate to reporters.
“There have been a number of folks questioning why I used to be not talking nevertheless it was nothing private towards the journalists,” he mentioned.
“I simply wanted to focus on my competitors and once I must focus it must be at 100%. I can’t lose vitality on different issues.
“That’s the reason I didn’t communicate earlier than. I’ve learnt that the federation goes to get a positive however I’ve promised personally to pay it.”
