Mbappe rubs salt into Gibraltar wounds with comment after France’s 14-0 win
France superstar Kylian Mbappe poked fun at Gibraltar’s misfortune after correcting a reporter following their record-breaking 14-0 win on Saturday night. The PSG star helped himself to a hat-trick on the night to move onto 46 goals for his country and turned provider with treble of assists for his team-mates to cap an outstanding display, but he still couldn’t resist rubbing the salt of the wounds of the British Territory nation.
Ethan Santos’ own goal and a strike from Marcus Thuram inside the first four minutes effectively ended the match as a contest, and from there it was about damage limitation for the minnows. But they were powerless to resist as Mbappe and his France team-mates ran riot in Paris.
Debutant Warren Zaire-Emery became his country’s youngest goalscorer at the age of 17 before Santos capped a horror show with a red card on 18 minutes to add to his own goal.
Mbappe then grabbed his first goal of the night on the half-hour mark, before Jonathan Clauss, Kingsley Coman and Youssouf Fofana scored in a three-minute barrage to make it 7-0 before the interval.
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And despite there being a 26-minute break until Adrien Rabiot’s goal on 63 minutes, the goals started flooding in for Les Bleus shortly after as Coman grabbed his second before Ousmane Dembele put France into double digits.
Mbappe added two more to complete his hat-trick, with the third goal a wonderful effort from 40 yards out, before Olivier Giroud’s double in stoppage time completed Gibraltar’s humiliation.
In a post-match interview, the forward was clearly in a bullish mood as he discussed the events from a memorable night in Paris – and the 24-year-old even corrected a reporter after he forgot how many different goalscorers there were.
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The interviewer, speaking to Mbappe, said: “There were 9 goalscorers right?”, to which he replied: “10. 10 with the Gibraltar player.”
France boss Didier Deschamps could only be delighted with the lethal attacking display from his side, and even suggested the scoreline should have been even higher.
“Being down to 10, already with 11 it’s complicated for them, but it doesn’t take away the credit for us even if we could have been more efficient, it’s as much about respecting the opponent as scoring goals,” he said. “14 [goals] is not bad.”
France scored 14 of their goals from 39 shots in total, with 20 hitting the target, while the opposition failed to muster a single opportunity. Giroud’s second goal ensured it would go down as their biggest-ever win, surpassing the 10-0 victory over Azerbaijan in 1995.
It also surpassed the biggest European win after Germany thrashed San Marino 13-0 back in 2006 and became the first occasion where a European team had scored 14 goals in a World Cup or European Championship qualifying match.
France qualified for Euro 2024 with two games to spare and maintained their six-point lead over the Netherlands after winning all seven of their matches so far. By putting 14 past Gibraltar, they managed to double their tally (13) from the other six matches in the space of 90 minutes.
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