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The Golden Boot race for the ages has a perfect ending – it comes down to the final match of the tournament.
Kylian Mbappe scored two goals. An incredible 6-4 defeat of France in England A third-placed finish moved him two goals clear of Lionel Messi in the qualifiers, but the Argentine still has a match left to respond.
And if the 39-year-old can score twice in the final against Spain, he will take the Golden Boot with a further goal.
Any less and Mbappe, 27, will become the first player to win the award twice.
That’s before we even mention the battle between the two men to become the World Cup’s all-time leading scorer.
Mbappe now leads the competition with 22 goals, Messi one behind.
Mbappe’s brace against England took his tally to 10 for the tournament. The last player to score double figures in a men’s World Cup was Gerd Müller in 1970 for West Germany.
To put that achievement into context, before this tournament only eight players had scored eight or more goals in a single World Cup – Muller, Just Fontaine, Sandor Kocsis, Ademir, Eusebio, Guillermo Stabile, Ronaldo and Mbappe.
In the year The 2026 World Cup was a race for the stars.
England’s Judd Bellingham’s goal against France took her third with seven Golden Shoes – the most by an Englishman at a single World Cup.
That put him ahead of Erling Haaland in assists, while Three Lions boss Harry Kane shared a goal with France’s Ousmane Dembele.
