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Daily Mirror
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Mark Jones

Kylian Mbappe had criticised French stars to thank for helping World Cup turnaround

It may be his image which adorns one of the skyscrapers down on the Corniche, but France are not just all about Kylian Mbappe.

We know that, obviously, we are talking about the world champions here, and however good the then 19-year-old Mbappe was back in Russia in 2018 - those incredible few minutes against Argentina, and that goal in the final against Croatia - this was not a one-man team.

Mbappe would also be the first to point to Olivier Giroud as a crucial player both for him and the French team as a whole, with the now 36-year-old operating in a non-scoring hold-up role four-and-a-half years ago but back in front of the net again here, scoring for France as he often does so impressively.

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