England win World Cup bronze in 10-goal thriller as Bukayo Saka hat-trick upstages record-breaking Kylian Mbappe
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England secured a 6-4 victory over France in the 2026 World Cup bronze-medal match, featuring a hat-trick from Bukayo Saka. Despite the loss, Kylian Mbappé made history by becoming the all-time leading goalscorer in World Cup history.
The bronze-medal match tends to be one of the highest-scoring games of the tournament, and this one certainly didn't disappoint. England manager Thomas Tuchel called it a fixture “nobody wants to play in” earlier in the week, but that didn't appear to be the case as the Three Lions and France battled in the highest-scoring third-place match in World Cup history, with England edging a wild 6-4 win
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