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For the Golden Boot! Can Mbappé score one more goal? -- The World Cup betting diary of “Little Lucky God” 🔥
At 5:00 a.m. on July 19, at Miami Hard Rock Stadium, France will face England. All eyes around the world are on one man—not Kane, not Bellingham, but the player in the No. 10 shirt who has already scored 8 goals in this World Cup: Kylian Mbappé. More captivating than the third-place match itself is the fact that the Golden Boot race hasn’t ended yet. Messi is tied with him on 8 goals, while Kane and Bellingham are hot on their heels with 6 each. This bronze-medal match will be Mbappé’s final stage to secure the Golden Boot and write history. And “Little Lucky God” believes that Mbappé will score again, launching the last attack on the Golden Boot:
1. A player who leads with eight goals won’t suddenly go cold in the last game
First, let’s look at the numbers. In this World Cup’s six matches, Mbappé has scored 8 goals, averaging over 1.3 per game. He is the first player in history to score at least 8 goals in each of two consecutive World Cups, and also the second player in World Cup history to reach 20 goals—after Messi—who needed 30 matches to do it, while he needed only 20.
In the quarterfinal against Morocco, he first took a penalty that Bounou bravely saved. Then he broke the deadlock with a right-footed world-class strike. Six minutes later, he also set up Dembélé to score, delivering a goal and an assist in one sequence. Even late in that match, when he was tripped and grimaced while holding his ankle, he still confirmed afterward that “there’s nothing serious.” A setback of losing 0-2 to Spain in the semifinals can’t destroy the instinct of a man who is currently creating history.
On the contrary—the quietness of the semifinals will make him explode even more fiercely in the third-place match.
In history, every great striker follows a similar pattern: after suffering a setback, the next match magnifies the desire to score to the extreme. In the 2014 World Cup group stage, Spain was thrashed 1-5 by the Netherlands, yet Villa still fought with everything he had in the following game. Mbappé isn’t the kind of player who “holds back” after a loss—he’s the kind of player who “goes red-eyed” because of a loss.
2. The Golden Boot race: he has reasons he must score
This isn’t just a third-place match. It’s Golden Boot overtime—a showdown for the award.
Right now, on the top scorers list, Mbappé and Messi are tied for first with 8 goals, while Kane and Bellingham follow with 6 each. If Mbappé scores one more in this match, he’ll take sole possession of first place with 9 goals and basically lock up the Golden Boot. But if he doesn’t score, and Kane scores more than twice, the Golden Boot could change hands.
For a player who values “his place in history” more than anything else, this kind of motivation is impossible to resist. After the quarterfinal, Mbappé said: “The French team has clearly recognized that the upcoming matches will be even more difficult, but they are already prepared to face difficulties and challenges.” The underlying message is: I personally am ready too.
And don’t forget—this is Deschamps’ final match as coach of France. After fourteen years of mentor-mentee bonds, a farewell performance for an era, how could Mbappé not want to send his coach off with a goal? He doesn’t just need to score—he needs to score beautifully, and score meaningfully.
3. England’s defensive line is exactly his favorite target
Judging by the tactical matchups, England’s back line is basically tailor-made as Mbappé’s “money machine.”
England’s defensive strategy in this tournament is high-pressure pressing and rapid recovery. But this approach has a fatal side effect: massive space behind them. In the quarterfinal against Norway, Heggen of Norway once used the space behind to break through (though it was disallowed due to a foul by Haaland). In the semifinal against Argentina, after England took the lead they chose to tighten their defense, but the result was that Argentina repeatedly attacked the space behind, almost equalizing.
What is Mbappé best at? Sprinting at high speed, breaking through in one-on-ones, and counterattacking into space behind. England’s defenders are a bit slow to turn, and after pressing high they don’t recover quickly enough—this is exactly the rhythm Mbappé loves. More importantly, England’s right-back has exposed issues multiple times during this tournament. Against pacey wide forwards, there has consistently been a lack of effective one-on-one defending methods.
France’s tactical setup is already “rapid transition between defense and attack + explosive destruction on the flanks,” and Mbappé is the absolute core of that system. Even if Deschamps makes major rotations in this match, as long as Mbappé and Dembélé or Barcola are on the pitch, France’s counterattacking blade won’t be dulled.
4. Physical condition: he said he’s fine—then he’s fine
The image of Mbappé being tripped and grabbing his ankle late in the quarterfinal is indeed worrying, but after the match, Mbappé himself personally confirmed that “there’s nothing serious.” Given his physical qualities and recovery ability, seven days of rest is enough to wipe out any minor discomfort.
More importantly, the intensity of the third-place match is far lower than that of the semifinals. Without the pressure of a championship, without the suffocating feeling of a life-or-death battle, players’ bodies and minds will be much more relaxed. In this kind of atmosphere, Mbappé’s speed advantage and explosiveness will be released even more fully—because he doesn’t need to save energy to survive a brutal 120-minute fight; he can put all his energy into attacking for 90 minutes.