Published Jun 17, 2026, 8:52 AM ET · Updated 5 months ago · 1 source

Does Ousmane Dembélé fit in a France attack led by Mbappé and Olise?

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Does Ousmane Dembélé fit in a France attack led by Mbappé and Olise?

“I f I start playing just to prove all of my critics wrong and to shut them up, I think I’d have to keep playing until I was 80,” said Kylian Mbappé as he wrote his name in the history books, surpassing Olivier Giroud as France’s all-time top scorer. He insists that his 57th and 58th goals for the national team – which secured a 3-1 win over Senegal in their World Cup opener – were not about “revenge”. But they were at least a response. Mbappé is not someone who does all his talking on the pitch