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 The common consensus: Otamendi had a solid game, but made one big mistake, giving away the penalty that brought France back into the game. Mbappé, on the other hand was more or less invisible for 80 minutes, but sparked to life ten minutes from the end, scoring a hat-trick to take the match to penalties.
-Yet Otamendi’s rating were around 5; Mbappé’s between 9 and 10. That two of Mbappé’s three goals were penalties did not dim the papers’ appreciation. The fact that the Argentine defence so dominated France that two of its forwards (Giroud and Dembélé) were replaced before half-time seems not to have helped Otamendi.
+Yet Otamendi’s rating were around 5; Mbappé’s between 9 and 10. That two of Mbappé’s three goals were penalties did not dim the papers’ appreciation, and has already dropped out of Wikipiedia’s executive summary. The fact that the Argentine defence so dominated France that half of its forward line was replaced before half-time seems not to have helped Otamendi.
 Interesting note: despite the widespread use of Enhanced Football Intelligence — every player in the tournament was GPS tracked and data exists for number, location and success rate of passes, tackles and touch rates — not one of the media ratings made reference to it.