Clive Brunskill / Getty images Leo Messi celebrates his second goal against France
The world's world champion was the Argentine team. The main time of the match ended with a score of 2: 2, in the additional teams scored still in the blue (3: 3).
The match in the 23rd minute was opened by Lionel Messi (with a rather controversial penalty), shortly before the break, Angel Di Maria doubled the advantage. The French failed the first half - and never hit on the goal in 45 minutes. By the end of the half, the head coach of the French national team Didier Desham removed the two main players of the attack from the field: Usman Dembele and Olivier Gir.
Immediately after the break, the French looked a little better, but closer to the end of the second half, the game leveled-and Kilian Mbappa, before that almost invisible, was able to arrange a double (on the 80th and 81st minutes).
In extra time, the teams exchanged goals: of course, Messi and Mbappe scored them. At the very end, both teams could tear out the victory, but missed the ass.
A series of a penalty with a score of 4: 2 won the Argentina team. Messi and Mbappe realized their attempts.
Mbappe, having designed a hat-trick in the final, became the best scorer of the tournament. He has eight goals, Messi has seven (four of them from a penalty).
In total, Messi has 13 goals at the world championships (23-year-old Mbappe has fewer a goal). According to this indicator, the Argentine overtook Pele, but far from the record - the German Miroslav Klose, who had long completed his career, three more. But Messi was the first in history to score at the group stage, in 1/8, quarterfinals, semifinals and final of one championship.
Leo also broke a record for the number of matches at the world championships. The final was for him the 26th game of the World Cup. And - as Messi himself said , the last.