ESPN's By The Numbers brings you best stats from the World Cup action on July 9.

Kylian Mbappé laughed and smiled - and scored, of course - when Paraguay tried to bait him and his French teammates into fouls and provoke fights, as hot heads became a recurring theme during one of ...

Neither rain, nor lightning, nor a swampy field - and certainly not overmatched Iraq - could stop Kylian Mbappé.

Kylian Mbappé missed a penalty but made up for it with a brilliant goal to help France beat Morocco 2-0 on Thursday and secure a spot in the World Cup semi-finals. France were awarded a penalty in the ...

France captain Kylian Mbappe appears on course to be available for his side’s European Championship game against the Netherlands on Friday. Mbappe fractured his nose in an aerial collision with ...

Norway's 3-2 victory over Senegal has set up a mouth-watering, top-of-Group-I clash between Norway and France on Friday. In other words, it's Erling Haaland vs. Kylian Mbappé ...

World football shows no mercy on this 1 July 2026. International front pages are bowing to France’s masterclass at the World ...

Mbappé now has 22 goals in all competitions for Real Madrid this season after his first hat trick for the club in Saturday's victory over Real Valladolid. After scoring his first hat trick for Real ...

Kylian Mbappé has been at the center of the soccer world since practically the moment he made his debut for AS Monaco at just 16 years old. Over the course of more than a decade in the game, the ...

The opening match-up couldn’t possibly have been better than France versus Morocco, a rematch of the historic semi-final in ...

Haaland (41 goals) and Mbappé (43 goals) will have a head-to-head chance to show off their scoring prowess next Friday in Foxborough, as France faces Norway. Mbappé won the Golden Boot in the 2022 ...