This World Cup didn’t deserve its sensational finale or the two all-timers at their pinnacles.
Sunday’s tournament finale between Argentina and France is obviously the greatest World Cup final ever. Never has that match swung so feverishly back and forth across such a narrow line. One team coughed up a 2–0 lead in 90 seconds. One player scored three goals in the game and his team lost. Both keepers made incredible saves. Both defenses made boneheaded errors. Two goals were scored in extra time. The only question is whether that praise is too faint.
in Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé and somehow they both came off looking better than when it started.But only one of them could take the title, and here despite Mbappé’s efforts it was Messi and Argentina who prevailed, surviving every one of the haymakers the young French phenom threw its way to win on penalties after the score finished 3–3 at the end of extra time.
The game did not appear to be destined for drama. France barely seemed present for the first 75 minutes. It arrived on the field Sunday prepared to try to stop Messi but not Argentine secret weapon Ángel Di María, who hadn’t started a game in the knockout rounds after suffering a thigh injury.
. Was it soft? Yes! Was it still dumb on the part of Dembélé? Absolutely! Don’t clip a guy from behind! Messi passed the penalty into the corner. Dembélé was subbed out before halftime.
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