World Cup: "Mbalado", Mbappé and the Blues are turning heads in Europe

The pressure will climb crescendo for five days.

On Saturday, the France team and England have an appointment in the quarter-finals of the World Cup and their respective qualification is the talk of Europe.

Kylian Mbappé, in particular, is the center of attention after his double in the victory against Poland (3-1).

"Mbalado", title Marca, inspired by the Parisian for this pun, contraction of "Mbappé" and "ride" in Spanish.

“Mbappé, pichichi (top scorer in VF), launches France.

With this double, (he) brings his total to five goals and now exceeds Maradona and Cristiano, ”says the Madrid daily.

#LaPortada 🗞️ 𝐌𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐨: Kylian, Pichichi, lanza a #FRA pic.twitter.com/h5wor3Rm3J

— MARCA (@marca) December 4, 2022

As

follows in

's footsteps by reserving a corner of its Monday, November 5 front page for the "King of Qatar".

Journalists from

seem to be as impressed by the PSG striker as by England, who fell from Senegal (3-0).

"The Mbappé show and the English roll", headlines the Catalan daily.

🗞️ #LaPortadaMD

🎙🇪🇸 Entrevista exclusiva a Ansu Fati: "Estamos enchufados"https://t.co/7RpobbTXxB pic.twitter.com/WmjYBE7R9n

— Mundo Deportivo (@mundodeportivo) December 4, 2022

In Italy, if the

displays the

between the

Mbappé and Olivier Giroud, it is the Milanese that it highlights the most.

"Giroud's signature", headlines the Italian newspaper about the "Milanese record holder", author of his 52nd goal with the Blues.

The prima pagina della #Gazzetta di oggi

📣 THE FIRMA DI GIROUD

The notizie 👉 https://t.co/1BDXAr27AD pic.twitter.com/BUIt7W3K2i

— La Gazzetta dello Sport (@Gazzetta_it) December 5, 2022

In England, it is not yet time to tremble in front of Mbappé and his friend in attack.

The media obviously give pride of place to their “Three Lions” and the “Glee Three Kings”.

The

still challenges France in front page: “And now, bring back France!

The

begins to believe in the "World Dream" and prepares its readers for the duel against the Blues.

"Now the French," he wrote in the same style as the Sun.

“Here yes go”, launches for its part

to announce the quarter-final against the Blues.

Tomorrow's Paper Today 📰

HERE YES GO!

🔴 Three Lions win sets up World Cup quarter-final clash with France#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/DwBfbCUVeA

— Metro (@MetroUK) December 4, 2022

Reactive, the

reserved the cover of its special World Cup supplement for Mbappé and ironically congratulated coach Gareth Southgate: “Good job, you did well to bring three right backs, Gareth!

“Aligned on the left wing, the” best player in the world “is indeed likely to threaten the English right side, Saturday.

So THAT'S why Southgate picked three right backs… cover of The Game in @TimesSport tomorrow as England through to face France pic.twitter.com/6hXOhUwJP8

— James Restall (@restyrestall) December 4, 2022