2018 World Cup: A.Griezmann, P.Pogba and K.Mbappé among the 11 most popular players on the web

"A few hours before the start of France's quarter-final of the 2018 World Cup, SEMrush presents a dream team of the players who will take part in this phase. For this, SEMrush has analysed all the research made by French web users in June taking into account only footballers whose teams are still in the running for the trophy," said SEMrush, an SEO analysis and solutions agency, on 06/07/2018.

Uruguay - France, the first quarter-final of the 2018 World Cup, will take place at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium (45,000 capacity, RUS) on Friday 06/07/2018 (kick-off at 17:00 local time, 16:00 CET).

Among the 11 most popular players chosen by French web users are three players from the French team: Antoine Griezmann, Paul Pogba (550,000 requests each) and Kylian Mbappé (246,000). Brazil is the most represented quarter-finalist, with four players, including Paris Saint-Germain striker Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, far ahead of any other qualified player for this stage of the competition (7.48 million requests).