There is a festival atmosphere in Philadelphia today, as the birthplace of the United States hosts Paraguay vs France in the last-16 of the World Cup on Independence Day. Les Bleus have cruised to this stage of the competition with a machine-like inevitability, swatting Senegal, Iraq and Norway to one side in the groups before easing to a 3-0 defeat of Sweden in the last-32. Their unparalleled attack is dominating the scoring charts, with Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele and Michael Olise already racking up 19 goal involvements between them with four matches played.
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