Argentina is the world champion, Messi is the greatest ever, that cannot be debated!

The French handed over the territory to their rivals and set up counterattacks, but they played football with many mistakes, so the Argentines were able to create dangerous situations. The first goal of the final was scored in the middle of the half, after an unnecessary foul by Dembélé, Messi calmly converted the penalty. With this, the 35-year-old superstar became the first player in the history of the World Cup to score in every match in the straight elimination stage - since the round of 16 -, previously Toto Schillaci (1990), Roberto Baggio (1994), Hriszto Stoichskov (1994), The streaks of Davor Suker (1998) and Wesley Sneijder (2010) were also broken. This was Messi's fourth goal from the penalty spot in the tournament, in 1978 the Dutchman Rob Rensenbrink and in 1966 the Portuguese Eusebio scored four times from the 11.

Not long after, the Argentines increased their advantage with a perfect counterattack, the French faltered, this was also felt by the national team captain Didier Deschamps, who changed two players before the break. Despite this, the defending European team ended the first half without even a shot on goal.

After the turn, the game of the French improved somewhat, but they still could not develop the situations, the Argentinians, on the whole, confidently maintained their advantage. In the 80th minute, the French improved almost from nothing, Otamendi, who was celebrating his 100th national team, was fouled, and Mbappé scored the 11th. The PSG star equalized with a wonderful goal two minutes later. The go-ahead was about the French, but in the last minute of added time, Messi was close to the goal, but his long-range shot was brilliantly blocked by Lloris.

In the last minute of the first half of extra time, Messi made a brilliant pass to Lautaro Martinez, but the Internazionale striker's close shot was blocked. Moments later, the forward could have gone out on his own after a perfect launch, but he shot wide.

In the continuation, the will of the Argentines prevailed, Martínez missed a jump for the third time, but here the Argentines could already celebrate, because Messi did not miss the repetition from close range. However, this was not the end, Mbappé was able to go to the penalty spot for the second time after a handshake, as he did not make a mistake this time either, becoming the second player in the history of the World Cup after Geoff Hurst (1966), who scored a hat-trick in the final.

The clincher could have come in the 120th minute, Kolo Muani couldn't slip Mbappé's pass towards the goal, the ball still missed by inches, and then in the 123rd minute he was caught again, but Emiliano Martinez made one of the greatest saves of the World Cup.

Coman and Tchouameni from the French made mistakes during the 11, but the Argentines shot perfectly.

(Source: Source: sportrajongo.hu, mti/Photo: pixabay)