Yet anecdotal, this France-Germany could give serious momentum to Kylian Mbappé in the French team. Not at the best of his form since he inherited the captain's armband, the Real Madrid striker had already been criticized against Spain for his bad performance when he had ended eight matches without scoring in the French team by scoring a penalty. Victorious of the Mannschaft in the small final (2-0), France finally counted on its captain.
Disappointing in the first period, the Blues of Didier Deschamps were largely dominated by the Germans and passed very close to the opening of the score, after several decisive judgments of Mike Maignan and a post found by Florian Wirtz. But shortly before half-time and against the course of the game, Kylian Mbappé made the difference. The tricolor captain could fix Joshua Kimmich and hit the right foot from the left of the goal. Ter Stegen did not have a fairly firm left hand and conceded the 50th goal of Kylian Mbappé in Blues.
Kylian Mbappé not worried
At 26, the Real Madrid striker is only 1 goal by Thierry Henry and 7 by Olivier Giroud, top scorer in history. The man of the afternoon match wanted to return to his scarcity period. “There are passages like that. It is good that we point out when I do not mark because we wait for me to mark. It puts respect on my name. I tried to work. I had a lot of episodes that made it delayed the deadline. I am happy to start scoring again, but above all to win ”he said on TF1.
Before analyzing this final phase of the League of Nations and the next deadlines of the Blues. “”There are a lot of things you have done well, others worse. So I think there are a lot of things to analyze from the two games we have done. We wanted to react after the defeat against Spain, that's what we did, we are very happy. Against Germany at home, we know that it is never easy (…) when you are a player, represent his national team for a World Cup, there is nothing more beautiful. We must already qualify. The truth will start in September with a qualifying match in Ukraine. We will have to prepare for the long journey that is the World Cup». And before that, Kylian Mbappé will have an appointment with the Club World Cup, with Real Madrid.
