First and foremost, there is still a trophy that players on both sides will be focused on: the Golden Boot.<\/p>\n
France captain Kylian Mbappe has enjoyed a superb tournament and is currently level with Lionel Messi as this World Cup’s joint top scorer on eight goals so far.<\/p>\n
However, the Argentina great currently has the edge thanks to his four assists to Mbappe’s three.<\/p>\n
Goals in third-place play-offs do count towards the Golden Boot award, though, so Mbappe can still overtake the former Barcelona forward – albeit Messi will have the opportunity to respond in the final itself.<\/p>\n
Should Mbappe score, or provide two assists, he would follow in the footsteps of Italy’s Salvatore Schillaci, who clinched the Golden Boot in 1990 by scoring in the third-place contest against… England.<\/p>\n
Of course, there is still a chance an England player might take the prize for the tournament’s top scorer given both Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham are just two goals behind Messi and Mbappe.<\/p>\n
Given the Three Lions pair also have fewer assists, it would likely require a hat-trick to top the charts but you never know – and seeing top attacking talents go in search of goals is always fun to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First and foremost, there is still a trophy that players on both sides will be focused on: the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}