{"id":791195,"date":"2026-07-10T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791195\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:52:09","slug":"ousmane-dembele-explains-how-fearless-kylian-mbappe-advice-resulted-in-crucial-goal-as-france-beat-morocco-to-secure-semi-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791195\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousmane Dembele explains how \u2018fearless\u2019 Kylian Mbappe advice resulted in crucial goal as France beat Morocco to secure semi-final spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/M6\/status\/2075350385523372233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2075350385523372233%7Ctwgr%5E213e201bed53b8d7246bdd0178562b8e71f2c926%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Frmcsport.bfmtv.com%2Ffootball%2Fcoupe-du-monde%2Ffrance-maroc-mbappe-m-a-dit-de-rester-dans-l-axe-la-petite-confession-de-dembele-sur-son-but-et-son-positionnement_AP-202607090909.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">M6<\/a> after the match, Dembele explained how Mbappe\u2019s advice changed the course of the game. Dembele also highlighted the captain&#8217;s mentality, despite Mbappe missing a penalty during the match. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kylian, two or three minutes before (the goal), he told me to stay in the centre, as soon as we have the possibility we are going to go on a counter-attack,&#8221; Dembele explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that&#8217;s what happened. Then he also made a great run to create space. I saw that I was a bit open, I mainly tried to get my shot on target and it worked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Discussing Mbappe&#8217;s leadership, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxifoot.fr\/france\/mbappe-dembele-n-en-revient-pas-foot-459742.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">quoted<\/a> from Maxifoot Dembele added: &#8220;He&#8217;s an incredible player, our captain. He&#8217;s fearless, he has the mentality, we expect even more goals from Kylian.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to M6 after the match, Dembele explained how Mbappe\u2019s advice changed the course of the game. Dembele&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,2592,372774,86799,24604,86796,85,21418],"class_list":["post-791195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-france","tag-france-vs-morocco","tag-k-mbappe","tag-morocco","tag-o-dembele","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791195","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=791195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}