Can anyone stop France? After another dominant World Cup win, it doesn’t seem likely.

FOXBOROUGH — At the World Cup, there are often great teams on paper. They don’t always deliver.

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Portugal had three of the best midfielders in the world entering this tournament, but couldn’t string three passes together in the middle of the pitch. England’s “Golden Generation” of the mid-2000s could never get its stars to jell. Argentina often put plenty of talent around Lionel Messi, but never coalesced until 2022.

Then there’s this France team, which is delivering on every bit of promise that the pre-tournament hypotheticals suggested.

The French are in the semifinals of a third straight World Cup after capping off the Foxborough games with a 2-0 win over Morocco on Thursday. The stars delivered as they have all month, with Kylian Mbappé scoring his eighth goal of the tournament (and the 20th in his World Cup career) with a sensational finish, and Ousmane Dembélé making it 2-nil just minutes later.

With that win, the French remained perfect at this World Cup: six games, six victories, 16 goals scored, just two conceded. Les Bleus are flying, and it’s getting harder and harder to see anyone clipping their wings.

“I feel very good about this team,” Mbappé said after the win in Foxborough.

It starts up front, where France has an embarrassment of riches the likes of which we perhaps have never seen at a World Cup.

Mbappé is the talisman — perhaps the biggest star in world soccer post-Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo — and has delivered in every which way. Michael Olise has been spectacular as France’s No. 10 (by position, not shirt number), even if he’s yet to bag a goal for himself. Dembélé, the reigning winner of the Ballon d’Or as the best player in the world, might be the third-best forward on this team.

There are young wingers Désiré Doué and Bradley Barcola, who would both start for almost any other team but have to vie against each other for playing time. The French are so stacked with attackers, Manchester City’s Rayan Cherki, a recent candidate for the Premier League’s player of the season, can hardly get a minute off the bench.

Trying to defend against France is the World Cup’s ultimate pick-your-poison, and nobody seems to have an antidote.

“We had ⁠to be perfect, and even if we were, I’m not sure that would have been enough,” said Sweden coach Graham Potter after a 3-0 loss in the Round of 32. Iraq coach Graham Arnold joked that he asked FIFA if his team could play with three goalkeepers to stop the French.

“We have to acknowledge that they are such a good side,” said Morocco coach Mohamed Ouahbi. “The French team is a beautiful team and have had a great team for a long time. … They have incredibly good players in attack.

“They want to go all the way to the final and win the trophy, and they have all the qualities.”

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It’s not just that the French can’t stop scoring goals — they can’t stop scoring great goals. Mbappé already has a few, with his finish into a tight window Thursday complementing a pair of stunning strikes from outside the box against Senegal and Iraq.

Dembélé’s hat trick in Foxborough against Norway in the groups was a thing of beauty, and Olise was inches from scoring the goal of the tournament against Sweden when his bicycle kick struck the post.

It’s hard to remember a scarier group of attackers at a World Cup, especially when they’re as focused as the French have seemed.

“I feel that we understand the potential of the team and at this time, it’s not potential anymore, it’s what we’re actually doing,” Mbappé said. “But the fear, the apprehension [of opponents], is not going to score any goals. It’s a feeling, but feelings are not going to help you win any matches.”

France will play in the semifinals on Tuesday outside Dallas against the winner of Friday’s Spain vs. Belgium quarterfinal. Whichever of those teams get through, they’ll be facing a team chasing history.

This France side is two wins away from going down as one of the most dominant teams the World Cup has ever seen, alongside Brazil in 1970, West Germany in 1974, and another French side from 1998, among others.

France has scored the most goals at this World Cup and conceded the third fewest. Their goal difference is a plus-14, five better than any other team. Olise’s five assists lead the tournament, and Mbappé’s eight goals are joint-most with Messi.

Since 1970, only two teams have scored more goals at a single World Cup — Brazil in 2002 and Germany in 2014, with each scoring 18 — and France may still have two games to go.

But Mbappé, for his part, won’t call this group the best French team he’s played for until there’s a trophy to lift.

“No, it’s not the strongest,” he said. “[We’re] not the champion of the world, not the vice-champion of the world. It has the most potential for the time being — it’s the one that you can project [forward] the best — but I’ve always said that the strongest teams are the teams that actually win, and I’m not seeing any World Cup next to me.”

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