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Mbappé gala against Poland: France celebrates World Cup quarterfinals

2022-12-04T17:51:00.253Z


Mbappé gala against Poland: France celebrates World Cup quarterfinals Created: 2022-12-04Updated: 2022-12-04 6:39 p.m After the game, Robert Lewandowski (l) hugs France's double goalscorer Kylian Mbappé. © Tom Weller/dpa Kylian Mbappé is preparing to become the big superstar of this World Cup. In a 3-1 win over Robert Lewandowski and Poland, he led the world champion to the quarter-finals. Two


Mbappé gala against Poland: France celebrates World Cup quarterfinals

Created: 2022-12-04Updated: 2022-12-04 6:39 p.m

After the game, Robert Lewandowski (l) hugs France's double goalscorer Kylian Mbappé.

© Tom Weller/dpa

Kylian Mbappé is preparing to become the big superstar of this World Cup.

In a 3-1 win over Robert Lewandowski and Poland, he led the world champion to the quarter-finals.

Two records are broken.

Al-Thumama - Smiling, world footballer Robert Lewandowski hugged France's superstar Kylian Mbappé on the center line and gave the man of the evening a few words for the rest of the World Cup.

Double goalscorer Mbappé has led France's star ensemble to the quarter-finals and ended Lewandowski's World Cup dream.

Led by Mbappé, who was involved in all three goals, the football world champion celebrated a well-deserved 3-1 (1-0) against Poland after a superior performance.

In the superstar summit, Mbappé initiated the lead from record scorer Olivier Giroud in the 44th minute - and then took two perfect shots (74./90.+1) himself.

After the record evening in Al-Thumama, when captain Hugo Lloris made his 142nd appearance as a record international, the Équipe Tricolore can look forward to a great classic against England or the duel against Senegal in the top eight on Saturday.

At least Lewandowski was able to celebrate once when he scored his second World Cup goal with a hand penalty in the second attempt in added time.

France coach Didier Deschamps looked visibly relieved and was full of praise for match winner Mbappé: "The Polish team was well positioned to offer us resistance.

We made some changes at half-time.

When you see Kylian: You can solve a lot of problems with these skills.” Goalscorer Giroud commented on the quarter-finals with similar euphoria: “The adventure continues.

We are a super gang of comrades.

You can see that on the pitch.

There is still a long way to go, but today we will celebrate.”

Unequal duel

Lewandowski & Co. were able to make the unequal duel with the big favorites more open than many had assumed.

After a crushing initial phase by the French, the outsider even sniffed the lead, but in the end passion alone wasn't enough against a top-class ensemble.

The victorious world champion initially acted too playfully and not precisely enough - otherwise the game would certainly have been decided earlier.

But even so, the French danced exuberantly in front of the fans after the final whistle, while the Poles said goodbye to the World Cup stage at least forgivingly.

In front of 40,989 spectators, the two super strikers Mbappé and Lewandowski tried in different ways to set offensive accents.

Mbappé presented himself more effectively - and also supported by more attack class.

The 23-year-old not only played for the new sole French record goalscorer Giroud, who has now left Thierry Henry behind with 52 goals.

The full-speed soccer player always tried to put his colleagues in the limelight as a team-friendly passing station.

After a hard fight against him, Mbappé was denied a penalty in the second half - before that it had been ruled offside.

After scoring his first goal, he once again pushed the French fans, who want to see their team in the final on December 18 and loudly celebrated the Paris Saint-Germain star after the 3-0 victory.

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Zielinski was closer to the lead than Lewandowski

Executor Lewandowski also tried his hand at distributing the ball.

After the 34-year-old had worked as the "first defender" in the 0-2 draw against Argentina with Lionel Messi, he repeatedly switched to the wing or midfield in the star showdown with the French attacker.

Robert Lewandowski (r) scores a penalty in stoppage time in the second attempt to make it 3-1 against France.

© Tom Weller/dpa

A long-range shot missed the goal (21'), the world footballer put a free kick from a good 20 meters into the wall (33').

The duels with his former Bayern colleague Dayot Upamecano, who was the only Munich player to start, were not particularly tough or spectacular.

Too often Lewandowski was on his own at the front.

Closer to the lead than Lewandowski was Piotr Zielinski, who, standing free from eleven meters, aimed powerfully but too centrally at France's captain Lloris.

Wolfsburg's Jakub Kaminski was also unable to put the margin into the goal (38').

Captain Lloris showed in his 142nd international match - as many as Lilian Thuram - but also one or two wobbles, apologized after a sloppy pass.

France's Olivier Giroud celebrates after his opening goal to make it 1-0.

© Martin Meissner/AP/dpa

The missed lead was punished a little later by Giroud.

After Mbappé's perfect preliminary work, he gave Poland's strong goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny no chance in this tournament.

The 36-year-old Giroud, who became the undisputed number 1 in attack after the injury to Ballon d'Or winner Karim Benzami, breathed a sigh of relief after his record goal.

dpa

Source: merkur

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