'Dictator' Mbappe dispatches Morocco with disdain
France's national football team defeated Morocco in a dominant performance, with Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele leading the attack. The team's defensive record remains perfect in the knockout stages, positioning them as strong favorites for the World Cup.
Why it matters
The match highlights the tactical evolution of the French team and their current dominance in international football.
Hello and welcome to another edition of Offside. For those of us expecting a miracle in the Casablanca Derby, there was none, as France dismissed Morocco with the disdain of a dictatorship dealing with a dissident who dared express a different viewpoint.The strangest thing was perhaps Mbappe, who is going toe-to-toe with Messi for the Golden Boot and the overall World Cup goals record, missing a penalty before scoring a worldie. Dembele added a second — imagine a world where the Ballon d’Or winner isn’t your best player — and it was business as usual, except the usual in this case is terrifying.Mbappe appeared absolutely unbothered after missing his penalty, with the air of a person who knows any gaffe can be airbrushed out of history because France create chances by the dozen.For Morocco, it was again too little, too late, and their first shot on target came six minutes…
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