In the 2022 World Cup Final, where Argentina and France faced, the winner of the cup was determined by penalties. In the breathtaking final, the equality did not break even in overtime. From penalty shootout, Argentina became world champion for the third time with a score of 7-5.
Argentina won the 2022 World Cup. In the match, whose regular time ended 2-2 and the equality of 3-3 in extra time was not broken, Argentina defeated France in the penalty shootout and reached the championship.
In the final match of the World Cup, France, the champion of the last cup, and Argentina, the favorite of this tournament, faced each other. As both teams struggled to claim the World Cup for the third time, the final match was also seen as the ‘race’ between Argentine striker Lionel Messi and French star Kylian Mbappé.
The first half of the match played in Lusail, the biggest stadium of the tournament, under the management of Polish referee Szymon Marciniak, was marked by Argentina’s two goals, one of which was from a penalty, and France’s failure to exist. The first half ended with Argentina leading 2-0.
France attacked in the last 10 minutes of the second half. With goals scored by Mbappé in the 80th and 82nd minutes, the score was 2-2.
After the regular time of the match ended in a draw, overtime went into. Argentina took the lead 3-2 with Messi’s goal in the 109th minute in extra time. Then, France caught the draw again with a goal scored by Mbappé from the penalty spot in the 118th minute.
BOTH TEAMS WANTED THE THIRD CUP
France, which came to Qatar 2022 with the title of champion, would become the third country to win the World Cup in a row if it repeated its success here. In 1934 and 1938, Italy took the championship rope in the tournament, Brazil managed to win the cup in 1958 and 1962.
Argentina, which reached the final for the sixth time in its history, took the field to put an end to its 36-year longing and add the third World Cup star to its crest.
NEW RECORD FROM MESSI
Argentine star football player Lionel Messi made history as the player who played the most and took the most time in the World Cup.
In the 2022 FIFA World Cup final played at Lusail Stadium, 35-year-old Messi played against France for the 26th time, leaving German football player Lothar Matthaus behind.
The Argentine star also set a new record for his time in the tournament. Messi surpassed Italian Paolo Maldini, who holds the record with 2217 minutes in this field.
Messi is the player who has played the most captain in the World Cup with 19 times. The Argentine player is followed by Mexican Rafa Marquez with 17 games and Diego Maradona with 16 games.
Messi, 35, is the only player in his tens, twenties and thirties to score at the World Cup. Pele had missed the same success by four months.
In the semi-finals, Messi scored a penalty kick in the 34th minute against Croatia, surpassing Gabriel Batistuta to become the Argentine football player with the most nets in the World Cup with 11 goals.
In the 5th minute, Julian Alvarez won the ball as a result of Antoine Griezmann’s pass error. Alexis Mac Allister’s kick from outside the penalty area was left by Hugo Lloris.
In the 8th minute, Rodrigo De Paul’s shot hit Raphael Varane and went to the corner.
In the 20th minute, France’s Antoine Griezmann took a free kick from the left line of the penalty area, Olivier Giroud kicked his head and the referee of the match, Szymon Marciniak, decided that the French player had committed a foul.
Angel Di Maria, who met the ball on the left wing with Julian Alvarez’s pass in the 21st minute, slipped away from Ousmane Dembele and entered the penalty area, but remained on the ground with Dembele’s intervention, and the referee of the match, Szymon Marciniak, showed the penalty spot.
Using a penalty kick in Argentina in the 23rd minute, Lionel Messi sent the ball to separate corners with Hugo Lloris and put his team forward: 1-0.
Alexis Mac Allister in Argentina, who won the ball in the French attack that developed in the 36th minute, saw Lionel Messi in his own half. Julian Alvarez, who met the ball he left on the right wing, once again brought the ball to Alexis Mac Allister. Angel Di Maria, who met with the ball on the far post on Mac Allister’s pass, increased the difference to 2: 2-0.
In the 41st minute, France’s Ousmane Dembele and Olivier Giroud came to the side, while Randal Kolo Muani and Marcus Thuram came into the game.
In the 46th minute, Alexis Mac Allister, who was in the right position behind Enzo Fernandez’s defense in Argentina, was a moment late in the act and Hugo Lloris took the ball.
In the 49th minute, Angel Di Maria made Rodrigo De Paul’s shot from the left wing to the back post.
In the 59th minute, Julian Alvarez’s kick from the left diagonal inside the penalty area, which was activated by the pass between Angel Di Maria’s defense, took Hugo Lloris from the bottom of the pole.
In the 60th minute, Angel Di Maria turned the ball into the penalty area from the left wing, and Rodrigo De Paul jumped over the ball and Lionel Messi, who met the ball on the back post, went away with his right foot.
In the 64th minute, Angel Di Maria in Argentina came to the side with applause and was replaced by Marcos Acuna.
Randal Kolo Muani’s head shot went away in the 68th minute in the corner used by France with Antoine Griezmann from the left wing.
In the 71st minute, Kylian Mbappe, who was approaching the penalty area from the left wing in France, went out from the top.
Using a penalty kick in the 80th minute, Kylian Mbappe reduced the lead to 1: 2-1.
Passing with Marcus Thuram in the 81st minute, Kylian Mbappe equalized the score with a hard hit from the left diagonal inside the penalty area: 2-2.
90+4. Eduardo Camavinga’s pass, Adrien Rabiot’s left diagonal shot in the penalty area in the second minute was taken by Emiliano Martinez. On the second ball, Cristian Romero passed the ball to Martinez without giving the French players a chance to strike.
90+7. Hugo Lloris scored Lionel Messi’s shot from outside the penalty area in the 1st minute from outside the penalty area.
Raphael Varane cleared Marcos Acuna’s center in the 93rd minute, and Alexis Mac Allister’s shot went awry.
There was no goal in the first half of extra time.
In the 105th minute, Lautaro Martinez, who met the ball in the appropriate position in the penalty area with Lionel Messi’s pass, lay down at the last moment and Dayot Upamecano intervened. On the spinning ball, Gonzalo Montiel’s shot from outside the penalty area went into a corner after Raphael Varane’s head shot.
The shot made by Lautaro Martinez, who moved to the back of the defense in the 105+1 minute, went out.
The first period of overtime is over.
Hugo Lloris scored Lionel Messi’s left foot from the right diagonal in the 107th minute.
In the 108th minute, Messi put his team forward again: 3-2
In the 116th minute, Mbappe once again equalized from the penalty spot: 3-3
PENALTY:
In Argentina, Messi scored a penalty shootout with Dybala, Paredes and Montiel, and the South American team won the World Cup.
In France, Coman and Tchouameni failed to take advantage of the penalty shoot-out. Mbappe and Kolo Muani’s penalty shootout goals were not enough for France.