2022 World Cup – Kylian Mbappé at half-time in the France – Argentina final: “It’s not possible to do that!”

But while the dream of a third star seems compromised, it is Kylian Mbappé, 23, who takes the floor. “It’s a World Cup guys, it’s the game of a lifetime! Anyway we can’t do worse than what we did“, he launches to his teammates. “We return to the field: either we let them play stupid, or we put a little intensity, we get into the duels and we do something else guys. It’s a World Cup final! We are trailing by two goals. We can come back! Oh guys, it’s every four years something like this“, he continues.

In the process, it is the dean of the Blues, the substitute goalkeeper Steve Mandanda, who from the top of his 37 years, gives voice. “Now guys it’s done, we lose 2-0 (…) We all did it once, turn the game around. And it is possible. But you have to go on the field with another state of mind, guys. It’s not possible to do that!“. Coach Didier Deschamps, who has already made two substitutions even before half-time, takes the floor, visibly overwhelmed.

“Guys, I’ll tell you without getting upset. Do you know the difference? It’s because they, over there, are playing a fucking World Cup final and we’re not playing it!” The next step is a French team which returns to the field with more conviction and commitment until obtaining a penalty that Kylian Mbappé will convert in the 80th minute. The first goal of his historic hat-trick which will bring the final, lost by the Blues on penalties (3-3 ap, 4-2 pens), in the annals of the World Cup.

(With AFP)