Kylian Mbappe is doing things at the 2026 World Cup that nobody else can claim. Six goals, two assists, three braces. He’s the only player in the tournament to have notched three multi-goal games while also contributing a pair of assists, a statistical line that reads less like a real performance and more like something a kid would invent for their FIFA career mode save.
His latest masterclass came in France’s 3-0 demolition of Sweden on June 30, where he bagged another brace. That result didn’t just pad France’s tournament credentials. It pushed Mbappe into a tie for the Golden Boot lead and, perhaps more significantly, past Miroslav Klose’s all-time World Cup goal record of 18 career strikes.
The Golden Boot race and a historic milestone
Klose’s record stood for over a decade as one of those benchmarks people assumed would survive for a generation. Mbappe dismantled it at 27 years old, which means he could conceivably play in another World Cup and push the record into territory that might genuinely be untouchable.
The prediction market platform predict.fun currently prices Mbappe’s implied probability of winning the Golden Boot at 42%. In English: bettors think he’s roughly twice as likely to win it as anyone else in the field.
