{"id":780132,"date":"2026-07-05T07:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780132\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:29:13","slug":"what-kylian-mbappe-said-about-paraguays-world-cup-antics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780132\/","title":{"rendered":"What Kylian Mbappe said about Paraguay&#8217;s World Cup antics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kylian Mbappe said Paraguay \u201cthought we\u2019d show up in tuxedos to play\u201d but France \u201cknow how to play dirty football too\u201d after winning a spiteful clash at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/football360.com.au\/kylian-mbappe-france-paraguay-fifa-world-cup-round-of-16-report-goal-golden-boot-messi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kylian Mbappe\u2019s 70th-minute penalty gave France a 1-0 win in Philadelphia en route to the quarter-finals.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">QFS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/football360.com.au\/world-cup-2026-who-has-qualified-for-quarter-finals-teams-details-fixtures\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who has qualified for the World Cup\u2019s quarter-finals?<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/football360.com.au\/kylian-mbappe-france-paraguay-fifa-world-cup-round-of-16\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France were frustrated by a physical Paraguay throughout the Round-of-16 contest amid sweltering conditions as tempers threatened to boil over on numerous occasions at Philadelphia Stadium.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/football360.com.au\/kylian-mbappe-france-paraguay-fifa-world-cup-round-of-16\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There were off-the-ball incidents, strong challenges and the dark arts as Paraguay looked to repeat their giant-slaying exploits, having stunned four-time champions Germany in the Round of 32.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paraguay goalkeeper Orlando Gill also threw a ball into the back of Mbappe, having seen his post-game handshake snubbed by the Les Bleus captain.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">El arquero de Paraguay le quiso dar la mano e Mbappe<br \/>El otro se hizo el boludo y sigui\u00f3 de largo<br \/>Asi que le tiro un pelotazo kjj<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zob4tPR8lp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Zob4tPR8lp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ElBuni (@therealbuni) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/therealbuni\/status\/2073574808948785386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afterwards, Mbappe told reporters: \u201cWe\u2019ve shown we\u2019re not just a team that knows how to play attacking football.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we have to get our hands dirty, we will do it. They thought we\u2019d show up in tuxedos to play, but we know how to play dirty football too. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe won and we were better than them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018TRYING TO INJURE PLAYERS\u2019 AND THE DARK ARTS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/football360.com.au\/kylian-mbappe-france-paraguay-fifa-world-cup-round-of-16\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Divisive World Cup display that angered a legend<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mbappe moved level atop the Golden Boot standings with his seventh goal of the 2026 showpiece, alongside Argentina legend Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Real Madrid superstar has also scored 19 career World Cup goals, only one adrift of all-time leader Messi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mbappe has scored a record-extending 11 goals in the World Cup knockout rounds. To put that into context, he has scored as many knockout round goals as Cristiano Ronaldo has scored World Cup goals in total (11).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France head coach Didier Deschamps had his say on Paraguay\u2019s antics, added: \u201cI asked the two biggest lads to go and stand \u200baround Kylian at the end because they were going to chop him down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy. They use every trick in the book. It\u2019s not the \u200bkind of football that will bring people to the stadium, but \u200bthey defended well. It is always difficult against these South American teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe said Paraguay \u201cthought we\u2019d show up in tuxedos to play\u201d but France \u201cknow how to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,369293,596,2592,69800,7104,85],"class_list":["post-780132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-didier-deschamps","tag-football","tag-france","tag-kylian-mbappe","tag-paraguay","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}