New Delhi, July 19 -- MIAMI GARDENS - Four goals down at halftime, France's bronze-medal match had stopped being about the result. For Kylian Mbappe, that made the second 45 minutes the only kind of football he knows how to play. He scored in the 48th minute and again in the 66th, pushing his all-time World Cup goal tally to 22 and claiming the record that had belonged to Lionel Messi for less than three weeks. England won 6-4 and took the bronze medal. That was almost the secondary story of the night at Miami Stadium on Friday.

Messi had moved to 21 career World Cup goals during Argentina's group-stage campaign earlier this month. Mbappe entered Friday's match needing two. He required both, and on a night France were outclassed for much...