Norway vs. France: Kylian Mbappe aiming to continue stunning start to 2026 World Cup

Ahead of France's 2026 World Cup clash with Norway, Sports Mole's Football Editor Matt Law discusses Les Bleus guardant Kylian Mbappe.

Matt Law, Football Editor: "What bash you privation from your striker?"

The astir exceptional portion of his grounds is that it's in conscionable 16 games. 

Messi is 18 successful 28, and Miroslav Klose is the closest with 16 successful 24 games, truthful the goals-to-game ratio is the truly important fig erstwhile comparing the apical scorers astatine the tournament. 

When you deliberation astir the disapproval Mbappe has faced, including from the French media for definite aspects of his manner oregon his squad contribution, it ever makes maine laugh. 

What bash you privation from your striker? You privation him to people goals. 

If you've got a subordinate of that ilk scoring that galore goals, that translates into being incredibly important for the team, alternatively than a subordinate who gets fractional the goals and mightiness marque a fewer much awesome passes during a game. 

He has been exceptional, and so person his assists for France. It's 100 games for France now, 60 goals, 40 assists, so we're talking astir 100 extremity involvements successful 100 caps. 

The numbers are disconnected the chart. Messi is top, Mbappe is associated second, but Ronaldo mightiness inactive propulsion up. He came backmost with 2 goals against Uzbekistan, but that's for different time. 

This is Mbappe's tournament, and tin helium animate France to spell each the way? 

A batch of america fancy France, and they've been 1 of the astir awesome sides truthful far. They've scored 3 goals successful each game, with Mbappe connected four, and hopefully we don't get a drab nil-nil.