Lionel Messi has the chance to win his first World Cup by meeting Les Bleus in the decisive game at the iconic Lusail.
Argentina meet this sunday with France in the Lusail Stadium, in the race for the title of the World Cup in Qatar 2022. The Albiceleste settled in this case after a powerful defeat of the current runner-up, Croatia, thanks to an excellent performance by Lionel Messi and Julián Álvarez , authors of the goals of those of Lionel Scaloni. In this way, the star from Rosario has the opportunity to win his first crown at a World Cup after his stay in 2014. at the gates of glory by losing against Germany at overtime. Record being the sixth time the national team has placed among the top two in a planetary event in history and has won to dateor on two occasions (1978 and 1986).
The representative, led by Didier Deschamps, has meanwhile received his ticket for the match decisive after a 2-0 win over Morocco at Al Bayt, with scores from Theo Hernández and Randal Kolo Muani, for whichá for defending his status as defending champion to add his third medal after those achieved in 1998 and Russia 2018. In addition, he will try to match the record of Brazil and Italy, the only two teams to have managed to lift the trophy in the wait to drag in two consecutive editions.
Both representatives have seen each other 12 times with a balance of six victories for the Argentinians and three for the French. There were three draws. In the World Cups there were three confrontations with two festivities for the Albiceleste and one for Les Bleus: in 1930 it was 1-0 in the group stage, in 1978 they won 2-1, also in the first round, while in the last edition then led by Jorge Sampaoli fell 3-4 in the round of 16. kylian mbappé (2), Anthony Griezman Y Benjamin Pavard they celebrated those who were eventually enshrined as monarchs.
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- Argentina is entering its sixth World Cup final, with only Germany (8) having played more. They are bidding to win the trophy for a third time, having done so in 1978 and 1986, but a defeat would take them to their joint highest number of World Cup defeats in history (four, equal to Germany).
- France has reached the World Cup final for the fourth time, all since 1998 (1998, 2006, 2018, 2022). This is double that of any other nation during this period. Les Bleus, the reigning champions, are bidding to become the third country to win back-to-back World Cups, after Italy (1934 and 1938) and Brazil (1958 and 1962).
- This will be the fourth World Cup match between Argentina and France. La Albiceleste won two of the previous three, but lost the only such encounter in the Round of 16, a 3-4 defeat in the Round of 16 in 2018. Overall, this will be Argentina’s 13th encounter in all competitions between France and Argentina. with Les Bleus winning just three of the previous 12 (D3 L6), though the most recent was their 4-3 World Cup win in 2018.
- France is undefeated in its last 10 World Cup matches against South American countries (W6 D4). In fact, their last such defeat was against Argentina, losing 2-1 in the first group stage of 1978.
- This will be the eleventh World Cup final between a South American and a European country. South American teams have lifted the trophy seven of the previous ten times. However, Argentina is responsible for two of three such defeats among South American teams (against Germany in 1990 and 2014), while France was responsible for the other European victory (3-0 against Brazil in 1998).
- After losing 2-1 to Saudi Arabia on matchday 1, Argentina could become the second team in World Cup history after Spain in 2010 to lose the first game of an edition and eventually lift the trophy.
- With Argentina losing 2-1 to Saudi Arabia and France losing 1-0 to Tunisia in their respective groups, this will be only the second World Cup final where both finalists have lost a match en route to the final. The other came in 1978, when Argentina won the trophy after beating the Netherlands 3–1 in the final, having both lost once in their respective groups in the first round.
- France has won all seven World Cup knockout matches since the start of the 2018 tournament. In World Cup history, only Brazil has had a longer winning streak in knockout matches (the qualifiers) from 1958 to 1970 (nine). group, the second group and the last group, but including the group play-off matches).
- Argentina conceded just 5.7 shots per game during this World Cup, less than any other team. They have not scored more than 0.6 expected goals in any of their six matches so far.
- France has the highest total expected goals (xG) excluding penalties of any country at the 2022 World Cup (11.9), while Argentina averages 0.40 xG per match excluding penalties, the lowest in the current edition of the tournament .
- Lionel Messi, from Argentina, could become the player with the record of games played in World Cup history (26) in this game. He could also become the first player to score in the group stage, round of 16, quarter-final, semi-final and final in a single edition of the tournament.
- Argentina’s Lionel Messi has scored 11 goals and provided 8 assists in his 25 World Cup appearances. If he scores or assists in this match, he will be the first player to score 20 direct goals in the league (counting all-time goals and assists since 1966).
- Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappé scored for France in the 2018 World Cup final (4-2 win against Croatia). Only four players have ever scored in two separate World Cup finals: Vavá (1958, 1962), Pelé (1958, 1970), Paul Breitner (1974, 1982) and Zinedine Zidane (1998, 2006). At 23 years and 363 days old on the day of this year’s final, Mbappé could become the youngest player to score in more than one World Cup final.
- France’s Antoine Griezmann has created the most chances (21) and has the highest total expected assists (3.5) of any player at the 2022 World Cup. As long as Opta has this data (since 1966), only one French player has more chances in a single World Cup edition than Griezmann’s 21, with Alain Giresse having 24 in 1982 and 24 again in 1986.
- At 44, Argentina’s Lionel Scaloni is the youngest coach to lead a World Cup final since Rudi Völler in 2002 (42), while he could be the youngest to win the tournament since compatriot César Luis Menotti in 1978 (39).
- France’s Didier Deschamps could become the second manager to lead a country to consecutive World Cups, after Vittorio Pozzo with Italy in 1934 and 1938. Deschamps has won 14 of his 18 games as manager in the World Cup Finals (2E 2D) stage; only Helmut Schön (16) has more league wins as a manager, while his 78% win rate is the best of any manager with more than 10 World Cup appearances.
- In the last two World Cup tournaments, Argentina’s Lionel Messi (27) and France’s Kylian Mbappé (22) are the two players who have created the most chances after a drive (moving more than 5 meters with the ball). Messi has taken 17 shots and created 10 chances after driving, while Mbappé has taken eight shots and created 14 chances in this way.
- French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris could become the fourth player to lead a team to two consecutive World Cup finals, after Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1982 and 1986), Diego Maradona (1986 and 1990) and Dunga (1994 and 1998). With each of the previous three losing at least one to themselves, Lloris could be the first to captain a team that has won two finals in a row.
WHEN IS?
HOW TO SEE ON TV
The match will be televised in Argentina and Colombia by DirectTV Sports. In Mexico there are the options of air sports, TUDN, Azteca 7 and the Channel of the Starswhile in the United States the meeting will take place Spanish on Telemundo and in English on FOX. In Chile it can be followed on DirecTV Sports, Channel 13 and Chilevision. Finally, in Spain the game can be seen through the 1 television.
HOW TO WATCH BY STREAMING
The match between Argentina and France will be available via streaming for all of South America DirectTV Goin Mexico for Blue to go and in Spain before Movistar+. Likewise, it will be in the United States Fox Sports app Y Telemundo app.
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