Argentina-France: Mbappé’s miracles were not enough

He hadn’t imagined her like that. Thought for a moment that a finale could become so icy in this atmosphere that he had boiled over. That she turns a deaf ear to the uproar he had just caused and that she closes up so cruelly when he had made her open like a flower. For a long time, Kylian Mbappé remained prostrate this Sunday on the lawn of Lusail Stadium. Hands on his knees, eyes unfocused, he locked himself in his bubble, this world apart in which no one else on the lawn apart from Lionel Messi has probably traveled during his career.