Kylian Mbappe wins the award after scoring two goals against England in the third-place play-off match, while Messi could not respond in the final. It means the French forward scored an impressive 10 goals, two more than Messi on eight. Mbappe is the first player to win back-to-back World Cup Golden Boot awards, after his success in Qatar in 2022.
Record Breaker Mbappe
The two goals Mbappe scored against England mean he became the record scorer in World Cup history with 22 goals. At 27 years of age, Kylian Mbappe will surely appear at least another World Cup, if not two more tournaments, if he stays fit. This means we should expect even more goals from the French international and more records.
At the start of the tournament, it was ex-German forward Miroslav Klose who was the leading World Cup scorer, with 16 goals to his name. Both Messi and Mbappe overtook that figure during the competition. The next record on Mbappe’s radar will surely be Just Fontaine’s 13 goals in a World Cup tournament, which happened in 1958.
