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#1 Kylian Mbappe has arrived
Ring the horns, float the flyers and bang the drums, the wonderkid has arrived on the grandest stage of them all. In truth, I don't even know if we should still be calling him that. How can you reduce a fully formed footballing talent that can send defenders straight to the shrink still be categorized as a wonderkid?
Mbappe was immense from the get-go. Needing no invitation whatsoever to turn on the afterburners, Mbappe won the first penalty kick for France all by himself as he stirred his stumps and flitted past the Argentinian backline before being clawed to the ground by Marcos Rojo.
Mbappe kept at it, winning a freekick right outside the area after running on to a long ball pumped forward by Pogba. For all his industry and the sheer quality that he put on show, Mbappe easily deserved to have his name on the scoresheet.
He did one better and ended the night with 2. France have made it to the quarter-finals and Kylian Mbappe has come of age.
