Today showed again that Mbappe is a good rather than great player. Time is on his side and I'm sure he'll develop, but if you close down the space and don't let him use his main attribute - pace - then he can be shut out of a game and be made largely ineffective. He did nothing against Australia, Peru, Denmark, or Uruguay, with his only good performance coming against a suicidal Argentina team that just let him run wherever he wanted. Definitely a talent, but top 5-10 in the world right now, future best player in the world, as many people say? I just don't see it. There's not enough in his locker.
France were exposed as well. They had an easy group, yet they didn't put in a single good performance - they needed a dodgy VAR decision and a lucky deflection to beat Australia, and scraped past Peru. I keep hearing what a wonderful attacking team this is, yet I've never seen it. Fair play, they got the job done against a very stubborn side, but for a team that's hyped so much, the only impression I get from their games is how disappointing they are.