Argentina vs france who won 2022

Argentina won the 2022 World Cup final against France, beating the defending champion during a penalty kick shootout after the teams reached full time with a 3-3 tie. The game had headed into 30 extra minutes in a 2-2 tie. Argentina scored four of the penalty kicks to France's two. The anticipated match marked Argentina started off strong in Sunday's match, and had gained a 2-0 lead over France by half-time. Both Messi and Angel Di Maria scored goals during the first half of the game, with Messi scoring on a 23rd-minute penalty kick after a foul on Di Maria. Thirteen minutes later, Di Maria scored after finishing off a five-pass team move involving a deft flick from Messi. France's Kylian Mbappé scored his team's first goal in the 71st minute, and quickly followed up with another. Mbappé scored the team's third goal on a penalty kick, becoming only the second player to perform a hat trick — scoring three goals during a single match — in a World Cup final. Despite France's loss, Mbappé was awarded the Golden Boot as the tournament's top goal-scorer. Di Maria, who started for the first time since sustaining a foot injury during Argentina's match against Poland in the final round of group games, took the place of Leandro Paredes in the midfield as the team again rolled out a 4-4-2 formation, with Messi leading as one of two forwards. Mbappé started up front for France alongside Olivier Giroud, who had overcome a minor knee injury. Dayot Upamecano and Adrien Rabiot also starte...

In the space of a half-hour, the debate morphed as quickly as Kylian Mbappe covers ground on the pitch. Was this the best World Cup final ever? Too limiting. Was this the best World Cup game ever? Same problem. Was this the best soccer game ever? Or maybe even the best game in any sport humans play? That’s where one must carry this discussion after Argentina and France tied through 120 minutes of soccer at 3-3 and the Argentines claimed the trophy with a 4-2 edge in a penalty kick shootout to end the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. We could spend this whole article explaining why this ranks among the greatest games in the history of sport, whether it’s the 1999 Champions League final or 1976 NBA Finals Game 6 or Super Bowl 43 or Game 6 at the 1975 World Series or the Kentucky-Duke overtime thriller in the 1992 NCAA Tournament or (insert your own choice here). Instead, we will stick with this: This was the greatest World Cup game, ever. Here’s how riveting it was: The technician doing my wife’s manicure at a salon in Fishers, Ind., stopped polishing her nails in order to turn to one of the three TVs tuned to the game and watch the shootout transpire. DECOURCY: And here are 10 reasons why: 1. Lionel Messi got his World Cup (Getty Images) He had earned his first cap with Argentina in 2005 and played in his first World Cup a year later. He played in more World Cup games than any man in history, and he came within a few minutes of winning the championship in 2014, but he went thr...

Argentina beat France in the World Cup final on penalty kicks as an epic clash played out during a pulsating 3-3 draw in normal time, as Lionel Messi won his legacy defining World Cup. The GOAT debates are now over. Lionel Messi is the greatest of all time. This final may have been the greatest sporting event of all time. [ MORE: The victory secured Argentina’s third World Cup title in their history and their first since 1986. It is Lionel Messi’s first World Cup title as the 35-year-old was mobbed by his teammates at the final whistle amid tears, relief and unbridled joy. This is what it is all about. And this game delivered one of the greatest sporting finals of all time as for just the third time in history, the World Cup was decided on penalty kicks. WATCH FULL REPLAY Lionel Messi scored the opener and set up the second for Angel di Maria as Argentina were 2-0 up at half time but with 10 minutes of normal time to go Kylian Mbappe scored a penalty and then smashed home another soon after to make it 2-2 and send the game to extra time. Messi put Argentina 3-2 up late in extra time as it looked like he had won it, again, for Argentina. But then Mbappe won another penalty kick and finished it to score a hat trick and make it 3-3 as he became just the second player in history to score a hat trick in the World Cup final. [ LIVE: World Cup 2022 schedule, how to watch, scores, hub ] Both teams had chances to win it in regulation but then Emiliano Martinez was the hero as he sa...

It was a consecration, the spiritual overtones entirely appropriate. Argentina had to win this final three times, France refusing to accept it was Messi’s destiny to get his hands on the iconic gold trophy, that it was somehow preordained. It will go down as surely the finest World Cup final of all time, the most pulsating, one of the greatest games in history because of how It was aWorldCuplike no other. For the last 12 years the Guardian has been reporting on the issues surrounding Qatar2022, from corruption and human rights abuses to thetreatment of migrant workers and discriminatory laws. The best of our journalism is gathered on our dedicated Guardian reporting goes far beyond what happens on the pitch. Support our investigative journalism Thank you for your feedback. A part of the story was France’s champion courage, the 2018 winners being revived by a clutch of Didier Deschamps substitutions. That and Mbappé, who was unplayable from the 80th minute. He scored twice in 97 seconds to force extra-time; the first a penalty, the second a sublime side-on volley and there was a point towards the end of regulation time when he appeared hell-bent on making sure that the additional period would not be needed. Back came Argentina in extra-time, Messi scoring his second for 3-2. But back came France, Mbappé equalising with a second penalty on 118 minutes for his hat-trick and the Golden Boot. He finished the tournament with eight – one more than Messi. He joined Sir Geoff Hurst...