By all accounts France's goalkeeper led the way but all statistics failed when Argentina goalkeeper Martinez saved Randal Kolo's powerful shot towards the post in the 120th minute.  It means that if this goal could have been scored then France would have won the match outright.  But Martinez skillfully parried the shot to lead to the game's trybreaker and eventually Argentina won the final thanks to Martinez's skill alone.



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This was the only victory FIFA decided the Golden Globes deserved for Martinez.

There were also saves that marked the final match. We can say that his save in the 120th minute was perhaps the breaking moment of the match. He also made great saves in penalty shootouts. Livakovic brought Croatia to the semi-finals. Because penalty shootout determined 2 matches. These two goalkeepers came to the fore, but in order to play in the big team, the goalkeeper needs to act like a defender when his foot needs to be smooth as well as penalty saves. These goalkeepers cannot be great team goalkeepers for now.

It's not exactly a problem, there's 2 awards in this case:

Golden Boot to the player who score more goals
Golden Ball to the best player of tournament

The only possible way to measure the golden boot is goal

He will (as I said) won't be able to compete with 25 year olders who are running like hounds a pitch at the age 39. His body is gonna be very old at that point for that kind of very high level football. In Portuguese league he may be able to keep playing but at Euro finals? Nearly impossible. Best way to use Ronaldo would be giving him chance at the end of match like 10-15 minutes as opponent will be tired and he will be able to use his talents. Or just extra-times where every player will be tired anyways. Playing champions league and/or world cup level football is very hard.

This is my best world cup, Qatar performed well, the hosting was classic. I think everyone enjoyed Qatar. In the future they will host again. No one ever believe dthat just small country will displayd such quality. I'm very impressed.
All the players are back to Their various clubs , tomorrow premier league begins. We're back to club football.

I agree but also think that Martinez deserved it more than any other goalkeeper simply because of the number of penalty saved,it was about 4 of them,2 in Holland game and 2 in final game taking into consideration that he found the direction even in that penalty which got out.It is only natural for him to have gotten the golden glove because of this and because he had done more than Livakovic,we don't know how Livakovic would have behaved in a final,he surely was great against Brazil but that is only one match.

Most of Mbappe's goals came against weak teams. Two of his goals came against Poland, two against Danmark, and one against Australia. And in the final, although he scored one goal by himself the other two came from penalty kicks. And during the initial 80 minutes his performance was pathetic (although he made up for that in the next 15 minutes of regular play and 30 minutes of extra time). I thought that although he received the golden boot, there was nothing special in his performance this time. For comparison, I would rate Julián Álvarez ahead of him.

That could happen too but it all depends on Ronaldo and if the country wants him and he wants it then why not. Ronaldo can still be relied upon, although not as good as before, and he also still has the potential to strengthen Portugal and it seems that Ronaldo still has the desire to defend his country.
and group B is no less fierce because the Netherlands are in the same group as France and are still in the same group, there are the Republic of Ireland, Greece, Gibraltar. And I think the Netherlands and France will qualify for the next round.

Argentina no doubt controlled most of the game but France after 80th minute came bak in game and after that they fought really hard specially Mbappe and they took game to penalty shoot out and after that game is all about luck and yesterday was Argentina's day in every aspect.

I think Ronaldo should forget the English premier league and focus his attention on a smaller league like the Arabian league where he was offered a huge money deal, I think that should be the best decision for him at this point but all good as well if he finally gets a Newcastle deal in the coming weeks, outside that I would prefer the Al nassr deal where he gets enough playing time and more experience in a new place. I don’t think he needs to play in the epl just to prove that Manchester United wasn’t his fault.

Even though messi and argentina won the 2022 world cup, we have to appreciate the appearance of mbappe and france in this final match, it was beyond expectations that the match which i thought argentina had definitely won since the early rounds, everything was equalized by this young boy and even him recorded a hat trick in this match. It really doesn't make sense the number of times people scream for goals that are created. Indeed this is the best world cup match of all time, everything is beyond reason.

Everyone expected Morocco to be eliminated from the first round. But to everyone's surprise, Morocco qualified for the knockout round as group champions. Morocco's attack was not strong. However, Morocco's performance was stable. The coach's match strategy was excellent. Also their defense was very strong. If Morocco's attack had been stronger, they would probably have been able to qualify for the finals as well.

I don't think that goal was a mistake, the scorer of the goal intentionally put the ball at that corner knowing the keeper wasn't in a good position to stop the ball. You can see him bending his body as he kicks the ball so he can get enough curve on th ball. The goal was beautiful to watch, Croatia played very well in that game and were determined to win it. Morocco didn't show me much fight, I taught they were going to win Croatia due to their defense record but they have just let four goals in, in their last two matches after going 5 games without conceding any goal form the opponent.

Croatia would be disappointed in their world cup run, last tournament they were the runner up and now the third position. This means they drop rank instead of progressing. I know they would had thought they can go all the way this time around to win the tournament and that was what they were aiming for. Congratulations to them though on making it this far, the cash prize for third position is also fair and will go along way in developing football in Croatia. The players should hold their head high because they surprised the world once again.

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I wish Modric would not leave the national team after this match but we can't expect too much.

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The big game is between Frances the defending champions and Argentina, I guess the 2022 world cup is gradually coming to an end.

A country with a population of 3 million but with a silver medal finish in 2018 and a bronze medal in 2022 is definitely a very good thing. Congratulations to you and your Croatian friends by placing 3rd this time even though it was slightly less than the previous world cup but still this is a very good achievement.

On the other hand, Morocco is actually very good and this is also a very extraordinary achievement for them in this world cup.

Congratulations Croatia on winning the title for the third position,  they played excellently today and their motivation was on point . Morocco did thier best too but somewhere they were lacking in motivation and aggressiveness today. Morocco is no doubt an amazing team and they have proven that to everyone.
Croatia have always been good in playing football.

Its not a surprise for me to see Morocco also lost the match for 3rd place in World Cup. They clearly outperformed their rivals until they lost to France. That sort of lifted magic around them and made them vulnerable team probably with a hit to their mentality, motivation and so on. I also congratulate Croatia, because they are sort of small nation (talking about their population) but they became football country indeed in last 10 years building one of greatest teams of Europe.