“The man who can make Kylian lose his cool is yet to be born,” said France manager Didier Deschamps in a L’Equipe interview late last month, but at least Stephen Kenny will be hoping again to knock the most potent player on the planet out of his stride when Ireland take on the World Cup finalists in Paris on Thursday.
Deschamps was referring to a summer of turmoil with Mbappe banished to “the loft” at PSG for refusing to sign a new contract and the comments were prescient; days later, the hierarchy at the club were the first ones to blink as PSG stuttered in their opening two league games and once Mbappe was restored to the starting line up by manager Luis Enrique, PSG
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