FIFA World Cup 2022 ARG VS FRA Report: Argentina scored two goals in the first half itself and France equalized by scoring two goals in the second half.
Lionel Messi won the first FIFA World Cup. (FIFA World Cup)
FIFA World Cup 2022: Under the captaincy of Lionel Messi, Argentina ended the drought of winning the FIFA World Cup since 1986. Argentina defeated France in the penalty shoot-out in the final match of the FIFA World Cup-2022 played at the Lusail Stadium in Qatar on Sunday. With this, Messi has ended his international football career with a World Cup victory. Messi had already said that the final match would be the last match of his international career. There was no World Cup trophy in Messi’s cabinet, which he has made up for.
At the same time, the French team, which won the title in the last World Cup played in Russia, could not save its title. Had this team been able to do this, Italy would have become the team to win two consecutive titles after Brazil. Italy had won the title in 1934 and 1938. At the same time, Brazil won the World Cup twice in a row in 1958 and 1962. Argentina scored two goals in the first half. After this, Kylian Embappé brought France back in the second half by scoring two goals in just 97 seconds, but Messi brought Argentina back into the match by scoring in extra time. Then Mbappe equalized France by converting the penalty into a goal.
These people scored goals in penalty shoot out
The first penalty was taken by Kylian Embappé of France who was successful. Then Messi of Argentina took over and was even more successful. After this, Argentine goalkeeper Martinez saved Koeman’s kick. Dybala scored for Argentina. Martinez again saved the kick of France’s Chumeni. After this Paredes of Argentina scored. Kolo Muani scored for France. Here France needed to keep their hopes alive that Argentina’s players missed but Montiel scored for Argentina and won it.
messi opened account
Messi was looking for his first World Cup. His team was looking dominant from the beginning. Although France had the first attack of this match which was unsuccessful. This attack came in the 12th minute. Four minutes later, Messi had a chance but Messi could not reach the ball. Two minutes later, Jirou of France scored a try. Here France got a free kick which was taken by Antonio Griezmann. Griezmann’s kick was straight in front of the goal post but Argentina’s defense did a great job and snatched this opportunity from France.
Argentina got a penalty in the 23rd minute. Messi could not have had a better chance to score a goal for his team. He capitalized on this opportunity and scored a goal by putting the ball in the net. Argentina got the penalty because Dembele brought down Dimaria inside the box. Here Argentina went ahead 1-0.
Dimaria scored the goal
Argentina did not stop here. Dimaria scored the second goal for him in the 36th minute. The ball came to Messi who passed it to McAllister. This player gave the ball to Dimaria from the left end and put the ball inside the goalpost to put his team ahead 2-0.
France could not score a single goal in the first half even after a million attempts. His stars Killian Embappé and Jirou could not show anything special in this half and the Argentine team ended the first half with a score of 2-0.
so was the second half
The French team had not yet been able to show the kind of game that was expected of it. In the second half it seemed that France would improve. But the attack from his side was very less. Even this team created less chances. For this, credit must also be given to Argentina’s defense line. France was not able to create chances even after trying hard in the second half. Meanwhile, the French team made changes. Koeman came in place of Griezmann in the 73rd minute.
Embappe made a comeback
Meanwhile, Embappé targeted the goalpost for the first time in the 71st minute. However, he could not keep his shot on target. In the 79th minute, Argentina’s Automanti made a mistake and dropped the French player inside the box. Embappé took the penalty and converted it into a goal to keep France’s hopes alive. From here the confidence in the French team had come and its effect was visible in the next few minutes only. In the 81st minute, Embappé scored an excellent goal to bring his team on par.
Koeman took the ball from the halfway line which came to Mbappé. The player passed the ball to Thurm who returned it to Mbappé and the player scored an equalizer for France with a brilliant one touch kick into the net . After this, the match ended in a draw in the stipulated time.
Goal scored in extra time
After no goals in regulation time, the match went into extra time and Messi scored in the 108th minute to put Argentina ahead, Martínez hit the ball which hit the goalkeeper. Standing there, Messi immediately put the ball in the net and put his team ahead and his goal proved to be the match winning goal.