{"id":22776,"date":"2026-07-05T01:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/kylian-mbappe-of-france-scores-19th-career-world-cup-goal-1-behind-golden-boot-rival-messi\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T01:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:10:54","slug":"kylian-mbappe-of-france-scores-19th-career-world-cup-goal-1-behind-golden-boot-rival-messi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/kylian-mbappe-of-france-scores-19th-career-world-cup-goal-1-behind-golden-boot-rival-messi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe of France scores 19th career World Cup goal, 1 behind Golden Boot rival Messi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA &mdash; Kylian Mbappe of France scored his 19th career World Cup goal, finding the net on a penalty kick in the Round of 16 against Paraguay on Saturday (July 4) and moving within one of record holder Lionel Messi of Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe stutter-stepped on his way to his 19th goal in 19 World Cup appearances, beating Paraguay goalkeeper Orlando Gill in the 70th minute to break a scoreless tie. Mbappe was awarded the penalty when Diego Gomez was called for tripping after a video review.<\/p>\n<p>It was the seventh goal of this tournament for Mbappe, matching Messi in the race for the Golden Boot for the World Cup&rsquo;s top scorer. Mbappe won that award four years ago in Qatar, but Messi and Argentina beat France in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Messi scored his 20th career World Cup goal in Argentina&rsquo;s 3-2 win over Cape Verde on Friday night. The 39-year-old great also has goals in a record eight consecutive World Cup games.<\/p>\n<p>Norway&rsquo;s Erling Haaland and England&rsquo;s Harry Kane are next in the Golden Boot race with five goals each.<\/p>\n<p>If there&rsquo;s a tie in the Golden Boot standings when the tournament ends, FIFA will use assists as the first tiebreaker and fewest minutes played as the second tiebreaker. Mbappe has a 2-0 lead over Messi in assists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>[[nid:739588]]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Kylian Mbappe of France scores 19th career World Cup goal, 1 behind Golden Boot rival Messi<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &mdash; Kylian Mbappe of France scored his 19th career World Cup goal, finding the net on a penalty kick in the Round of 16 against Paraguay on Saturday (July 4) and moving within one of record holder Lionel Messi of Argentina. Mbappe stutter-stepped on his way to his 19th goal in 19 World Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/kylian-mbappe-of-france-scores-19th-career-world-cup-goal-1-behind-golden-boot-rival-messi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Kylian Mbappe of France scores 19th career World Cup goal, 1 behind Golden Boot rival Messi&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}