WIRE — Lionel Messi leads the Golden Boot race at the FIFA World Cup 2026 after being briefly pegged back by Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland. Mbappe scored the only goal of a testy game between France and Paraguay to send Les Bleus through to the quarter-finals of the tournament. That took the Real Madrid striker up The post World Cup Golden Boot Race: Messi edges in front of Mbappe and Haaland first appeared on The Football Faithful.
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