{"id":791041,"date":"2026-07-10T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791041\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:05:10","slug":"can-mbappe-dembele-win-the-world-cup-too-like-this-legendary-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791041\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Mbapp\u00e9 & Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 win the World Cup too, like this legendary duo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much has already been written at this World Cup<\/a> about the phenomenal numbers Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a> has put up. What has been overlooked a bit, though, is that France\u2019s other stars are delivering too. One of them is Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9<\/a>, drawing parallels to a legendary duo.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, there is Mbapp\u00e9 with eight goals in the current tournament. That currently puts him joint top of the scoring charts alongside Lionel Messi. Not too far behind, in fifth place, is also\u00a0Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 with five goals. Truly not a bad tally either.<\/p>\n

‘ESPN’ shows just how rare it is for two attackers to produce like this at a World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The last duo to score five goals or more each at a World Cup<\/a> were Brazilians Ronaldo and Rivaldo<\/a> in 2002. The two Ballon d’Or winners of course also went on to lift the World Cup<\/a> trophy that year.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo finished the entire tournament with eight goals, while Rivaldo<\/a> scored five times. So these are the same numbers currently posted by the two Frenchmen. The difference is that Mbapp\u00e9 and\u00a0Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 will still have two more matches to improve their personal stats.<\/p>\n

The question, of course, is whether they will also be able to lift the golden trophy in the end. To fulfill that dream, they would surely be willing to forgo more goals of their own. But naturally, that big objective becomes more likely if they simply keep scoring the way they have so far.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcf8 CHARLY TRIBALLEAU – AFP or licensors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much has already been written at this World Cup about the phenomenal numbers Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 has put up.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-791041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791041","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=791041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}