FIFA World Cup 2022 Final highlights, Argentina vs France: Argentina won the penalty shootout after one of the greatest World Cup finals of all time ended in a 3-3 draw. The Lusail Stadium hosted what will go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, World Cup finals of all time. Argentina were cruising for much of the match, until Kylian Mbappe converted a penalty and scored a sensational equaliser to force the game into extra-time. That led to more insane football as chances flew around at both ends. Messi scored late in the second-half of extra time to seemingly win it for Argentina, only for them to concede a penalty mere seconds later. The flawless Mbappe converted that as well, thus becoming the first player since 1966 to score a hat-trick in the final of a World Cup. And yet, he ended up on the losing side, with Argentina winning the penalty shootout. Messi finally got his hands on the covetted World Cup trophy in what he said will be his last match in this tournament. Leo messi is handed the World Cup trophy by the Emir of Qatar and FIFA boss Gianni Infantino and also made to wear a sort of a golden black robe. He doesn't care any about that, he cradles the World Cup trophy like a baby, then walks up to his teammates and finally, lifts that trophy. Messi has lifted the World Cup trophy. That monkey is off his back in what he has said is his last World Cup match. That is it from us for this match, that is it from us for this World Cup. There will be more to come of course from this epic of a match. We have been blessed and cursed here. Blessed because we got to see this slugfest, cursed because no football game will possibly match up to this.The champions walk up, collect their medals, give the trophy a kiss and then walk along to join their teammates. They had to dig deep on so many occasions, right from bouncing back from one of the most shocking results in World Cup history, to surviving the most mind-boggling back and forth World Cup final of all time. Customary big cheers for Lionel Messi as his name is announced. Argentina form a guard of honour for them before they go and collect their silver medals. Most of them take it off almost as soon as it is hung around their necks. There are some players in that squad who know what it is like to get the other medal on offer tonight but it is not to be for them to experience it again or for their teammates to experience it for the first time. But this nation is part of football royalty. They were ravaged by injuries coming into this World Cup and still reached the final with relative ease. Then they were ravaged by a virus in the immediate days before the final, were down and out for much of the match itself and somehow, somehow they came from 2-0 down, then they came back from 3-2 down. An extraordinary team, an extraordinary group of players and their talisman, a generational talent in Kylian Mbappe.
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