If the injuries of Ousmane Dembélé and Désiré Doué somewhat spoiled the party, the French team launched its qualification campaign for the 2026 World Cup very well. Last Friday, in Wroclaw in Poland, the Blues took the best on Ukraine (2-0) thanks to goals signed Michael Olise (10e) and Kylian Mbappé (82e).
The opportunity for the Real Madrid striker to climb in the hierarchy of the best scorers in the history of the tricolor selection. While he was third in the ranking before facing the Ukrainians, he is now a second ex-aequo with Thierry Henry (with 51 goals in 91 matches against 51 goals in 123 matches for “Titi”).
“Bravo sir!” Made in inf Clairefontaine “posted the 1998 world champion on his Instagram account. “Thank you the old man”replied the Merengue, who takes this accomplishment as
“An honor” But aims above. For him, the objective is now to dislodge Olivier Giroud, who remains to date the best director of the Blues.
Kylian Mbappé stays far behind Just Fountain
Before facing Iceland, Tuesday evening at the Parc des Princes, six goals separate the neo-Lillois (57 goals in 137 matches) from a “kyks” which tries to play it modest. “The record, it approaches but it is not something I thinkhe said. I don't know if it is because I think I can beat him or because there is more important. »»
“But it's true that being the top scorer in the history of the French team is not nothing”he added. In the top 10 blues, Kylian Mbappé is far from being the player with the best ratio. With 0.56 goals per game, he was preceded by Michel Platini (0.57 with 41 goals in 72 games) and Just Fontaine (1.43 with 30 goals in 21 games).
