Mbappe’s France half-time speech — ‘Either we let them play us like idiots or we change things!’

Kylian Mbappe led France half-time speech during Sunday’s World Cup final, imploring the team to take advantage of “the match of a lifetime”.

France were 2-0 down at the time after goals from Lionel Messi and Angel Di Maria, and had not had a shot in the first-half.

Mbappe helped France mount a sensational comeback, however, scoring in both the 80th and 81st minute to take the match to extra-time.

He completed his hat-trick in extra-time to level the score at 3-3, but France lost 4-2 on penalties despite Mbappe scoring his spot-kick.

New footage released by French broadcaster TF1 now shows the 23-year-old attempting to motivate his side at half-time, speaking over experienced voices such as Hugo Lloris, Raphael Varane, and coach Didier Deschamps.

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“It’s the World Cup, guys. it’s the match of a lifetime,” he shouts. “Whatever happens, we can’t do any worse than what we did (in the first half).

“We’re going back out there on to the pitch: either we let them play us like idiots, or we put a bit of intensity into the game, get into the one on ones and change things, guys.

“It’s a World Cup final. We are two goals down. We can come back! Oh guys, something like this only comes round once every four years.”

Mbappe returned to Paris Saint-Germain training on Wednesday, just three days after the final.

PSG next play in the league on December 28.

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