Argentina became champion, Messi’s dream fulfilled, beat France in penalty shootout in the final

FIFA WC 2022 Final: In the final of the FIFA World Cup 2022, Argentina has won the title by defeating France in the penalty shootout. Lionel Messi, playing his last World Cup for Argentina, has ended his World Cup career in a spectacular manner. The score was tied at 2-2 in regular time and then in extra time the score was tied at 3-3. After this, Argentina won the match in the penalty shootout with a brilliant performance.

Argentina made a good lead in the first half

From the beginning of the match, Argentina showed a great game and in the 23rd minute itself, they got an edge. After being fouled by France, Argentina got a penalty kick and on that, Lionel Messi gave Argentina the lead by scoring a goal. After 13 minutes, Argentina took a 2-0 lead in the match by scoring another goal. Angel Di Maria gathered the excellent pass well and scored the goal and made the score 2-0.

Embape equalized the score in the second half

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Until the first 80 minutes, Argentina was comfortably maintaining its lead, but then Kylian Mbappe wreaked havoc on Argentina. Embape scored a penalty kick in the 80th minute to make it 2-1 and then equalized in the very next minute. On a brilliant pass from the midfield, Mbappe controlled the ball in the best way and scored a goal on the volley to make the score 2-2. After this there was no goal from any team and the match went into extra time of 30 minutes.

Ruckus in extra time

In the first 15 minutes of extra time, Argentina created several chances to score, but they could not capitalize on even one. However, in the second half, star player Lionel Messi gave everything for Argentina. In the third minute of the second half of extra time, Argentina launched a brilliant attack and Messi scored on it to put Argentina ahead 3–2. Just before the end of the second half of extra time, Mbappe completed his hat-trick by scoring another goal on the penalty and also leveled the score at 3-3.