New Delhi, July 5 -- PHILADELPHIA - The moment everyone at Lincoln Financial Field will remember from this July Fourth is not the flyover from Naval Air Station. Not Idina Menzel's national anthem. Not The Roots performing in the pregame heat. It is what happens when Kylian Mbappe gets the ball in the box, with an Argentine's record standing between him and football's most consequential number.

Mbappe has six World Cup goals in this tournament, level with Lionel Messi on the all-time single-tournament charts and one goal short of Messi's overall World Cup tally of 19. France's captain found the net in each of the team's four matches in North America. Against Sweden in the round of 32, he scored twice in a 3-0 win that felt less like a fo...