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Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe headline the BEST team of the World Cup group stage, with Bruno Fernandes the standout player with an 8.6 out of 10 rating... but ZERO England players make the cut!

World-leading superstars Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe are the biggest names in the best team of the World Cup group stages.

The PSG team-mates were instrumental in inspiring Argentina and France respectively into the knockout stages.

And Sofascore, revealing their best-performing XI from the group matches at the Qatar tournament, named Bruno Fernandes as the standout player with an 8.6 rating out of 10 - but did not put any England players in the line-up.

France forward Kylian Mbappe has been named in the best XI of the World Cup group stages
Portugal star Bruno Fernandes is the standout player, with an average rating of 8.6 out of 10

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Portugal and Manchester United star Fernandes is one of three players to receive an average rating of more than eight out of 10, alongside goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny and France's Antoine Griezmann.