{"id":38470,"date":"2026-07-01T07:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38470"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:21:39","slug":"mbappe-delivers-another-brace-as-france-routs-sweden","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mbappe-delivers-another-brace-as-france-routs-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbappe delivers another brace as France routs Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kylian Mbappe scored his 17th and 18th career World Cup goals to keep chasing Lionel Messi and tournament history in France\u2019s 3-0 victory over Sweden in Tuesday\u2019s round of 32 clash.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mbappe is now one behind Messi on the all-time tournament list, and with his fifth and sixth goals of this year\u2019s tournament has pulled even with the 39-year-old in the Golden Boot chase.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Messi and Argentina face Cape Verde on Friday in Miami Gardens, Florida, in their round of 32 meeting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bradley Barcola added his second of the tournament after halftime as the two-time World Cup champions continued their dominant form, having won all four of their tournaments matches by a combined 13-2 margin.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Michael Olise had two assists in Tuesday\u2019s victory, which marked the tournament\u2019s first round of 32 match (out of six played) decided by more than one goal.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Manager Didier Deschamps\u2018 side will next play on Saturday in Philadelphia against Paraguay, who shocked four-time champions Germany on penalties following a 1-1 draw on Monday in Foxborough, Mass.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sweden is eliminated following one of the more turbulent World Cup stays in recent memory, defeating Tunisia 5-1 and then losing to the Netherlands by the same score before drawing their group finale 1-1 against Japan to reach the knockout phase.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was their first time advancing from a group in a major tournament since the 2020 European Championships, which were played in 2021. Sweden failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, and the 2024 Euros.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38471,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,20],"class_list":["post-38470","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Kylian Mbappe scored his 17th and 18th career World Cup goals","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38472,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38470\/revisions\/38472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}