Mbappé’s feats vs Morocco
*Kylian Mbappé (with a goal and an assist vs Morocco) became the only player in the last 60 years to be involved in 10 goals across two different World Cup editions:
2022 – 10 (8 goals, 2 assists)
2026 – 11 (8 goals, 3 assists)
*Mbappé is the first player to make a goal contribution in 7 consecutive World Cup matches for France (11 goals, 2 assists in this period).
*Mbappé is the first player to be involved in 11 goals (8 goals, 3 assists) at a single World Cup edition since Gerd Müller for Germany in 1970 (13 goal involvements – 10 goals, 3 assists).
*Mbappé became only the second player in World Cup history to score 20 goals, after Lionel Messi (21).
*This is the first World Cup in history where two players (Mbappé, Messi) have scored 8+ goals.
*Mbappé (16) and Messi (15) have scored as many goals for 2 last editions combined as only 2 players did for the whole World Cup history: Klose (16) and Ronaldo (15).
*Mbappé has scored the winning goal in 8 World Cup matches: the most of any player in competition’s history.
*Two players have scored at least 5 goals for a team at a World Cup edition (France – Mbappé 8, Dembélé 5) for the first time since 2002 (Brazil – Ronaldo 8, Rivaldo 5).
Other instances:
Hungary in 1938 — Sárosi (5) and Zsengellér (5)
Brazil in 1958 — Pelé (6) and Vavá (5)
Poland in 1974 — Lato (7) and Szarmach (5)
*Mbappé & Dembélé is the 2nd top-scoring French duo at a World Cup (13 goals combined), after Fontaine & Kopa in 1958 (16, 13+3).
*Mbappé became the first player to be involved in 100 goals for the French national team (64 goals, 36 assists).
*Mbappé is the second player to score 14 goals in a single season for France, following Just Fontaine in 1957-58.
*Mbappé (20 appearances) became France’s joint-most capped player at the World Cup, tying with Hugo Lloris.
He holds the record for the most World Cup knockout-stage appearances for France (11 matches).
*Mbappé (27 years and 201 days old) became the youngest player in history to reach 20 World Cup matches, surpassing Władysław Żmuda (28 years and 34 days old).
*Mbappé has played all his 20 World Cup matches under the same head coach (Didier Deschamps): an all-time record for a player under a single coach.
*Mbappé is the second French player to miss a penalty for France at the World Cup (out of 18 attempts), following Karim Benzema against Switzerland on 20 June 2014.
*Only in 4 occasions in the World Cup history a player has scored, assisted and missed a penalty in the same match; two of them have been in space of just three days:
Messi vs Egypt
Mbappé vs Morocco
*Mbappé had previously converted 15 consecutive penalties/shootout attempts for France. This is his first miss with “Les Bleus” since the shootout loss against Switzerland at EURO 2020.