England beat France 6-4 in the World Cup third-place match, with Bukayo Saka scoring three goals. Saka finds the net in the 37th minute and again in first-half stoppage time, then adds a third goal on a penalty in the 87th minute for a second career hat trick with England. England also scores through Declan Rice and Ezri Konsa to take a 4-0 lead at halftime. France responds in a high-scoring second half, with Kylian Mbappé scoring two goals. Mbappé surpasses Lionel Messi’s career World Cup scoring record during the match and takes the lead in the Golden Boot race; he finishes the tournament with 10 goals, two ahead of Messi. Jude Bellingham caps the scoring with a goal in the eighth minute of second-half stoppage time. The match is noted for its unusually high scoring, with 10 total goals—the most in a World Cup third-place game in the cited accounts—and it is the highest-scoring World Cup match since a 10-1 game in 1982.