France: our highs and lows from the World Cup 📝

France: our highs and lows from the World Cup 📝 Time for the review. Semi-finalists, sadly -and logically- eliminated by Spain, brilliant at times but flirting with humiliation against England, the France team brought the Didier Deschamps era to a close with a 2026 World Cup that was as frustrating... as it was promising and exciting.  OneFootball presents its individual hits and misses from Les Bleus' tournament! Our top performers 👍 Kylian Mbappé: with 10 goals scored, Les Bleus' captain once again proved that he is unquestionably the ultimate tournament player. Dayot Upamecano: monstrous. We could simply stop right there. The Bayern Munich center-back produced a stratospheric 2026 World Cup, perhaps establishing himself as simply the best center-back in the world. Manu Koné: the AS Roma midfielder was excellent in every situation. As a starter and off the bench. To the point of posing a major threat to Aurélien Tchouaméni in the months to come... Adrien Rabiot: he too was excellent all the time, every time. Adrien Rabiot delivered a soldier's World Cup. The ultimate reliable player! Michael Olise: his lack of composure in front of goal and his gradual disappearance from the quarter-finals onward may leave some regrets, but his start to the tournament and his chemistry with Kylian Mbappé are huge assets for the future. Olise passed his first major test with Les Bleus. Our flops 👎 Théo Hernandez: his first match against Senegal was particularly worrying, and his first 45 minutes against England proved fatal. Théo Hernandez simply looked out of form during this World Cup. The Al-Hilal left-back could fall victim to Zinédine Zidane's possible desire to refresh his full-back options ahead of Euro 2028. Goodbye? Rayan Cherki : for his first major competition with the France team, the playmaker was unfortunately ghost-like. His cameos were not convincing, and his first half against England was a disaster.  Jules Koundé: the FC Barcelona right-back was, admittedly, decent defensively; but his technical inaccuracies sometimes disrupted Les Bleus' attacking play.  Désiré Doué: unfortunately, the Parisian prodigy's only real highlight was his decisive cameo against Paraguay. The rest of his performances were fairly average.  What about you, who are your top performers and flops? This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.