The match was scoreless by the time a hydration break sounded in the packed stadium, as has become customary among football fans angered by the effective start of four quarters in a game traditionally divided into two halves.
However, for once, no one could doubt its propriety as the exhausted Swedes were back on their feet.
The jeering fans were quickly distracted by a deafening rendition of Jon Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” before the match restarted, but there was no divine intervention for the Scandinavians.
Mbappe shook the post just after half an hour and finally broke the deadlock in the 45th minute when, from a pass from Ousmane Dembele, he pounced and fired a right-footed shot past Jakob Vidal Zetterstrom.
The pair have now scored six goals in World Cup finals, more than any pair in the tournament’s history, and surpassing Germany’s Michael Ballack and Miroslav Klose and Poland’s Grzegorz Lato and Andrzej Czarmach.