Overview
- England defeated France 6-4 in the third-place match in Miami on Sunday, producing the highest-scoring third-place game in World Cup history.
- Bukayo Saka scored a hat-trick, Jude Bellingham sealed the win with a last-minute goal, and Declan Rice and Ezri Konsa also scored for England.
- Kylian Mbappé scored twice to finish the tournament with 10 goals and 22 career World Cup goals, temporarily moving ahead of Lionel Messi on the all-time list.
- Under FIFA tiebreak rules the top scorer is decided first by goals then by assists and then by fewer minutes played, so Messi can win the Bota de Oro only by scoring three goals in the final or by scoring two and providing an assist.
- The match marked the end of Didier Deschamps’s 14-year tenure as France coach and multiple outlets reported Zinedine Zidane as the expected successor, a change that will shape France’s post‑2026 rebuild.