2 hours ago Records person been falling from time 1 for the game's astir feared forwards.
Messi present starring the all-time World Cup database has taken a batch of the headlines, and rightly so.
But helium isn't the lone 1 who has been mounting records this tournament.
Mbappe present tops France's goalscoring charts, Haaland is Norway's starring World Cup scorer - aft conscionable 2 games - portion Kane has equalled Gary Lineker's World Cup grounds for England.
And each of them volition person their sights acceptable connected France's Just Fontaine's 1958 grounds of 13 goals scored successful 1 tournament. 958.
Only 3 players - Fontaine, Gerd Muller for Germany successful 1970 and Hungary's Sandor Kocsis successful 1954 - person ever deed treble figures astatine a azygous World Cup.
It would not beryllium a astonishment if that prime database has grown by the extremity of this tournament.
The caller 48-team format surely looks to person accrued the imaginable for goals. With much lower-ranked teams, the world's champion attackers person prospered.
The World Cup winners volition besides person to play 1 other circular than ever earlier - again expanding the chances of scoring goals.
Former France defender Gael Clichy told BBC Sport: "Kylian Mbappe is portion of the procreation which [has] that fearless factor.
"I retrieve erstwhile I started you had to springiness respect to the older procreation erstwhile you came in, and you were not trying to bash a nutmeg to the aged men.
"This generation, they person respect, but differently. Don't speech astir age, speech astir performance."
So, backmost to the tiny substance of the contention for the Golden Boot.
"It's not thing I'm reasoning astir close now," said Mbappe. "Leo ever scores. He ever has and ever will.
"If I commencement watching him, I'll consciousness similar I person to bash adjacent more, truthful no, I don't ticker what he's doing. I'm lone reasoning astir helping my squad - by helping the team, I people goals and get person to that benignant of level."
Norway brag Stale Solbakken has, possibly unsurprisingly, pushed Haaland's cause.
"He is the champion striker - helium is not playing for France oregon Argentina, helium scores for Norway. He's scored 4 goals now, 2 braces connected the biggest stage," helium said.
"It's easier to triumph the Golden Boot erstwhile you play for France and Argentina, but we'll effort to springiness Erling much games, and much assistance besides successful the adjacent games. So he's connected occurrence and I'm precise blessed for him that helium tin people connected the biggest stage."
USA striker Folarin Balogun has made a decent capable commencement to the tourney himself, with 2 goals successful his archetypal 2 games.
But helium astir apt summed it up the best, erstwhile helium joked: "I deliberation it's annoying. Seeing players similar Messi, Mbappe, Haaland - they're truthful inevitable. I deliberation they're scoring a extremity a game, sometimes more.
"For me, it's conscionable astir trying to get to that level - to beryllium inevitable arsenic well."
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