Kylian Mbappé was quick to downplay any injury concerns despite limping out of France’s World Cup quarterfinal victory over Morocco on Thursday.
The Real Madrid livewire is a marked man this summer. Didier Deschamps admitted that he tasked two players with acting as the captain’s bodyguards during the closing stages of a particularly feisty encounter with Paraguay in the round of 16. Morocco was nowhere as aggressive, but Mbappé still didn’t emerge entirely unscathed.