“This was the best World Cup final I have ever seen, that perhaps anyone has ever seen,” edcaesar writes. “A match stuffed full of so many remarkable incidents, so much tension, such dramatic momentum swings, such joy.”
Lionel Messi
This was the best World Cup final I have ever seen, that perhaps anyone has ever seen—a match stuffed full of so many remarkable incidents, so much tension, such dramatic momentum swings, such joy. It was soccer played con brio. As my colleague Sam Knight wrote yesterday,when France and Argentina reached the final: two great teams, with the world’s biggest stars, facing off. This evening, in Doha, the Qataris must have felt as if they had won the lottery.
Argentina, meanwhile, was irrepressible. Its midfielders pounced on every loose ball. Rodrigo De Paul and Alexis Mac Allister were voracious. Again and again, Messi found his fellow-veteran Ángel Di María in space on the left wing. Di María jinked and feinted past French defenders. One such sleight, in which Di María bamboozled Ousmane Dembélé, led to a penalty kick that Messi coolly scored. 1–0.
You could write a novel about what happened after the French equalizer. I won’t. Argentina just about survived until the final whistle blew for regulation time. In the extra thirty minutes, both teams swung at each other as if they were exhausted boxers in the final rounds of a championship bout. The French substitutes had injected new life into the team, but so did Argentina’s. Lautaro Martínez, who replaced the striker Julián Álvarez, looked sharp.
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