1 hour ago It is not lone their devastating finishing astir which France's World Cup rivals should beryllium concerned.
The tone and unity of this exceptionally talented Les Bleus squad should besides interest the remaining sides near successful the tourney - and it was connected afloat show during Tuesday's 3-0 dismantling of Sweden.
After Kylian Mbappe's superbly crafted opening goal, France's all-time starring scorer ran consecutive towards his seat to clasp Didier Deschamps.
The caput manager was backmost successful the dugout for the archetypal clip since returning from France to be the ceremonial of his mother.
It was a heartfelt moment.
Mbappe and Deschamps were past joined by the remainder of the team. A radical hug followed.
After an affectional fewer days, the grin was backmost connected Deschamps' look arsenic his broadside turned connected the benignant successful the baking New Jersey vigor to publication a last-16 necktie with Paraguay successful Philadelphia connected Saturday, 4 July (22:00 BST).
"This radical is agreed and they delivered erstwhile I was not present [last week]," said Deschamps afterwards.
"The squad tone of this radical doesn't marque you triumph matches. But I cognize if it's the different mode round, you tin suffer games. The corporate spot is supra everything."
Midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni added: "We cognize the manager is going done a lot, we are trying to springiness everything to marque him arsenic blessed arsenic possible."
Bradley Barcola made it 2-0 earlier Mbappe added his 2nd to determination level connected six goals with Argentina's Lionel Messi successful the contention for the Golden Boot.
"You cannot halt this benignant of ability," erstwhile England striker Ian Wright told ITV Sport.
"France are 1 of the astir wide favourites I person ever seen successful a World Cup tournament."
Wright's erstwhile Arsenal team-mate Patrick Vieira, a World Cup victor with France successful 1998, added: "They showed to everyone that they are the squad to beat."
He was not wrong.
As good arsenic Mbappe's outstanding finishing, Michael Olise chipped successful with different mates of assists to instrumentality his tally to 5 for the tournament, arsenic France became the archetypal squad to people 3 oregon much goals successful 5 consecutive World Cup matches.
It was a breathless show that near the 80,000 fans fortunate to beryllium wrong the stadium asking: is anyone susceptible of stopping France's Class of 2026?
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