{"id":858489,"date":"2026-03-29T15:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/858489\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:42:20","slug":"kylian-mbappe-believes-frances-current-squad-has-more-potential-and-more-talent-than-the-2022-world-cup-runners-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/858489\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 believes France&#8217;s current squad has &#8216;more potential and more talent&#8217; than the 2022 World Cup runners-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 1<\/p>\n<p>Can France improve on their runners-up status in the 2022 World Cup to become World champions for the third time in their history come July in America? Speaking to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/telefoot_TF1\/status\/2038198626711642338\">TF1<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>France\u2019s national team captain Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 (27) believes that\u00a0Les Bleus\u2018 current crop of players has \u201cmore potential and more talent\u201d than the squad that got beaten by Lionel Messi\u2019s Argentina on penalties during the 2022 final.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsfrance.com\/2026\/player-ratings-france-2-1-brazil-attacking-talent-makes-the-difference-but-defensive-questions-remain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prestige friendly win against Brazil<\/a>, Mbapp\u00e9 stopped short at suggesting that France will be stronger compared to four years ago. \u201cI can\u2019t say that, results will tell\u201c, says the Real Madrid striker. \u201cI knew France teams who had supreme talents, but they didn\u2019t win anything.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for\u00a0Les Bleus, Mbapp\u00e9 and his teammates will get into the thick of the World Cup from the get-go as their opening game will see them go toe-to-toe with Senegal, who were stripped of their AFCON victory. \u201cIf we turn up thinking we are going to win the World Cup, the Senegalese will get into us and we will come back down to earth very quickly\u201c,\u00a0Mbapp\u00e9 adds.<\/p>\n<p>GFFN | Bastien Cheval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 Can France improve on their runners-up status in the 2022 World Cup to become World champions for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-858489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116313230444428694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}