Rashford vs Mbappe:
Speed = both
Workrate = Rashford
High stake match game raiser = rashford
Footballing skill = Mbappe
Footballing IQ = Mbappe
The excitement on here as has been palpable since the game, which is fare enough, but things like the above bolded, have to be interjected lest they become legion. One of these players has scored in a World Cup Final as a teenager.
There is no higher stake in football than that.
Of course, that is not infinite credit in the bank, but Mbappe is held to an entirely different stratosphere of scrutiny to Rashford, before, during and after any game they play.
Until Rashford is rated in the same tier and has the same kind of pressure on him to deliver, he can never be measured against someone who is expected to carry his team in tandem with the most expensive player in the world.
Mbappe was also a threat for the majority of the game. Sterling work from Tuanzebe, Wan Bissaka, De Gea and occasionally both Fred and McTominay does not change that fact.
Rashford has a way to go before he's seen as the talismann others look to to deliver all-season long and irrespective of anything going on around him.