Picture : Michael Olise has recorded 32 assists this season (club and national team), being close to Lionel Messi who reached 34 assists in his great 2011-12 season with Barcelona and Argentina.
World Cup 2026 Statistics – Day 20 (June 30) – Round of 32
France vs Sweden 3-0
*France have won 4 consecutive World Cup matches by a margin of at least 2 goals for the first time in history.
*France have won a World Cup knockout stage match by a 3-goal margin since 12 July 1998, against Brazil (also 3-0).
*France becomes the first nation in history to win 7 consecutive World Cup matches against European teams.
*France have scored 13 goals in their first four matches of a World Cup tournament for the first time since 1958 (15).
France boast the best attack of the 2026 World Cup.
*France have become the first side in World Cup history to score three or more goals in five consecutive matches.
They surpassed 6 teams who did so in 4 games in a row:
Uruguay (1930-1950)
Hungary (1954)
Portugal (1966)
Germany (1970)
Brazil (1970)
Spain (1998-2002)
*For the first time in history France have scored at least two goals:
in 13 consecutive competitive matches.
in 8 consecutive World Cup matches.
*Kylian Mbappé became the first player to win each of his first four World Cup matches as France’s captain.
*Mbappé now holds the record for the most World Cup wins by a French player in history (15).
*Mbappé became the all-time leading scorer in World Cup knockout stages (10 goals), surpassing Léonidas and Ronaldo (8 each).
*Mbappé is the only player in World Cup history to score 2+ goals in 7 different games.
*Mbappé is only the third Real Madrid player to score 5+ goals at a World Cup after Emilio Butragueño (5 in 1986) and Davor Šuker (6 in 1998).
*Ousmane Dembélé has made a decisive contribution in three consecutive matches for France for the first time in his career (4 goals, 2 assists).
*Dembélé andMbappé have combined for six World Cup goals (four assists from Dembélé to Mbappé, two from Mbappé to Dembélé), more than any other duo in the competition over the last 60 years.
*Michael Olise has become:
the first player to provide 5 assists in a single World Cup edition since Germany’s Thomas Häßler in 1994 (5),
the second player to provide at least five assists in a single World Cup edtion for France, following Raymond Kopa in 1958 (8),
the players with the joint-second most assists for France in World Cup history (5), along with Antoine Griezmann and behind Raymond Kopa (8).
*Olise has recorded 32 assists this season (club and national team), being close to Lionel Messi who reached 34 assists in his great 2011-12 season with Barcelona and Argentina.