Kylian Mbappe did something great by scoring a hat-trick in the World Cup final in Qatar. He made it so that the match between Argentina and France ended 3:3 and was decided by penalties.
Thus, the Roosters superstar became the top scorer of the tournament with 8 goals. In the fierce battle for the "Golden Boot", he overtook the hero of the champion Argentina - Lionel Messi, who remained with 7 hits.
With his three goals in the final, Mbappe became only the second player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final since Geoff Hurst in 1966. In addition, Mbappe became the second Frenchman to become the top scorer at the World Cup since Just Fontaine back in 1958.
Here are all the World Cup top scorers:
1930: Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) 8 goals
1934: Aldrich Neyedli (Czechoslovakia) 5 goals
1938: Leonidas (Brazil) 7 goals
1950: Ademir (Brazil) 9 goals
1954: Sandor Kocs (Hungary) 11 goals
1958: Just Fontaine (France) 13 goals
1962: Garrincha (Brazil), Vava (Brazil), Leonel Sanchez (Chile), Florian Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (USSR), Dražan Jerković (Yugoslavia) 4 goals
1966: Eusebio (Portugal) 9 goals
1970: Gerd Müller (FRG) 10 goals
1974: Grzegorz Lato (Poland) 7 goals
1978: Mario Kempes (Argentina) 6 goals
1982: Paolo Rossi (Italy) 6 goals
1986: Gary Lineker (England) 6 goals
1990: Salvatore Squillaci (Italy) 6 goals
1994: Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria), Oleg Salenko (Russia) 6 goals
1998: Davor Šuker (Croatia) 6 goals
2002: Ronaldo (Brazil) 8 goals
2006: Miroslav Klose (Germany) 5 goals
2010: Thomas Müller (Germany) 5 goals
2014: James Rodriguez (Colombia) 6 goals
2018: Harry Kane (England) 6 goals
2022: Kylian Mbappe (France) 8 goals
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