Rate England and France players in third-place play-off

What the report says

BBC Sport published an interactive player-ratings page for the World Cup third-place play-off between England and France on 18 July 2026, inviting readers to score each player out of 10. The page said users could return 30 minutes after full-time to see the final average ratings, with the displayed scores calculated from submissions by BBC Sport users after voting closed.

In the ratings shown in the article, England’s Bukayo Saka was listed as player of the match, wearing number 7 and receiving an average score of 8.78. Other highly rated England players included Djed Spence on 8.33, Jude Bellingham on 8.28 and Declan Rice on 7.97. Marcus Rashford, Eberechi Eze, Ezri Konsa, Marc Guéhi and Dean Henderson were also among the England players listed with average ratings above 6.5.

For France, Kylian Mbappé had the highest published average at 7.60. Ousmane Dembélé followed on 6.69, with Bradley Barcola on 6.58 and Dayot Upamecano on 6.23. Several France players were shown with averages below 5, including Warren Zaïre-Emery, Désiré Doué, Adrien Rabiot, Mike Maignan, Maxence Lacroix, Rayan Cherki, Ibrahima Konaté, Theo Hernández and Malo Gusto.

The BBC article did not provide a match score in the supplied text, focusing instead on audience reaction to individual performances. The third-place play-off is the match used to determine the tournament’s bronze-medal finisher, and public player ratings can offer a snapshot of how supporters assessed key performances after the game.