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Argentina and France locked horns in the final of the FIFA World Cup 2022. Both teams were coming off with convincing wins in the semi-finals against Croatia and Morocco respectively. Both teams came up with the starting line-up of 4-3-3 at the time of the kick-off an important match of the World Cup.
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Argentina and France played this match at the Lusail Stadium of Doha in Qatar, a stadium with a capacity of almost 90,000. Notably, it was the second consecutive time when the 2018 champions made it to the final of this prestigious football quadrennial.
On the other hand, Messi’s men qualified for the final after eight years since the last one when they lost against Germany in the final of the FIFA World Cup 2014.
With said that, here we’ll have a look at the entire action of this historic match for Argentine legend Lionel Messi and his team.
Here's what happened on the historic night of the FIFA World Cup 2022 Final
With the first whistle of the match from referee Szymon Marciniak, La Albiceleste started dominating the French outfit from the very first minute of the match. The moment came for the 1986 champions in the 23rd minute of the match when they earned a penalty. Senior center-forward and none other than Lionel Messi happened to take the penalty for his team.
The 35-year-old successfully converted the penalty into a goal and registered his name on the scorecard of the match. Following the first goal, the senior winger Angel Di Maria followed the footmarks of his skipper and came up with a stunning field goal in the 36th minute of the match to help Argentina to take an unassailable lead of 2-0 in the match.
But the French star Kylian Mbappe had some other plans on the day and he didn't look so easy to accept his team trailing in the match. The moment came for the defending champions in the 80th minute of the match when Mbappe converted the penalty into a goal to register a goal to his name in the match. Subsequently, he didn't stop only here and he came up with another goal in the next minute of the match.
But the Argentine skipper and legendary star Lionel Messi made no mistake in the second half of the extra time. The amazing stunner from Messi moved the lead to 3-2 in favor of Argentina. But the penalty-converted goal from Mbappe equalized the score line by 3-3.
Eventually, Argentina managed to maintain their lead in the penalty shoot-out at the end of the match and won it by 4-2 the match and ended up winning the match against Hugo Lloris & co. to win the World Cup for the third time after a long wait of 36 years.