World Cup Rankings: Messi, Mbappe, & Bellingham Round Out The Top
Catch the latest buzz in the World Cup as we break down the player power rankings! From Messi's top spot to Bellingham's rise, and Mbappe's dominance.
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Lionel Messi is considered by The Athletic as the best player of the World Cup, followed by Kylian Mbapp.
The two Make people at home There you go.
Mira.
Kylian Mbapp in second place.
Yeah.
Harry Kane in third.
Ugh.
And this is kind of like the, the power rankings that The Athletic has been updating.
Okay.
So if you see the plus one and the plus two, the numbers that they have gone up or down, right?
Okay.
Kylian Mbapp and, and have been in first and second place since a f- you know, a couple of weeks.
Harry Kane, Erling Haaland- I disagree with that.
Harry- Kane on third place.
I disagree with that.
I mean, I, I think obviously I'm a little- Let me, let me read this for you.
Let me see if they convince you.
Okay.
Kane followed up his DR Congo heroics with another big time performance against Mexico, picking out the way for Jude Bellingham first goal, then unselfishly squaring the ball for Real Madrid man to slide it home in his second.
Then having flicked the ball on for Anthony Gordon to win a penalty, he converted it nervously.
Okay, I'll give it to him.
Influential, influential player that- Influential nonetheless that, that put England in the next round.
But a flop, but a flopper also.
Erling Haaland shoots up in the rankings to fourth place.
Yeah.
Deserved, well deserved.
Hakimi, the fifth place.
I really like Hakimi.
Influential for his team.
He's def- he was very influential for his team, but in the Spain-France game, I mean, sorry, Spain game, he gave away two am- you know, golden opportunities and he just shanked the ball.
Yeah.
And I think when you're in a- The stage is tough the stage is tough.
I don't know.
Michel, Michel Olise- Okay from France on- Mm-hmm sixth place.
Definitely.
Definitely.
Jude Bellingham.
Makes sense.
Climbing eight positions with the, his performance against Mexico game.
It was phenomenal.
And you know what is a- he's also a gentleman.
He is.
He went, and I saw the video- He makes it look hard to Yeah shaking everyone's hand in the Mexican team.
He went and catch up with Gilberto Mora, trading- Switching jerseys they were enjoying healthy banter with Javier Aguirre from the- Yeah I, I love that video of him.
And hey, Gordon, Gordon.
Yeah, I saw that.
I love that.
That was really funny.
Laporte from Spain on ninth.
Yeah.
Vini Jr. on eighth.
Okay.
Dropping two places, he's out.
Unai Simon and Marco Asensio from Spain also reaching the top 10.
Definitely makes sense.
Y ah la vamos a dejar en el top 10, my friends, because we have- We'll see how this changes 30 seconds before the break coming out.
It's gonna be a great game.
I know.
Score predictions.
I'm excited.
I, I think 2-1, like I said.
I definitely, I- Let's recap it I definitely think Belgium is strong enough to take this Spain team into overtime
