The way Argentina played against Spain in the World Cup final match was nothing like the performance they had in previous matches. The fans in the gallery tried to cheer them up again and again but they were helpless against the Spanish team's tactics. Basically, none of the tactics of Argentina manager Scaloni worked against Spain. Although there was a lot of excitement among Argentina's fans before the match started, they gradually calmed down and Spain won the trophy.
The biggest defeat of the Argentina team was that they could not take a single shot on target in the entire match, that is in 120 minutes. But Spain had 20 shots, out of which 11 were on target.
It can be said without a doubt that Spain really deserved the final. Argentina could not take a shot in attack even in the 90 minutes against Spain. They certainly played badly in the final. So Spain deserved the victory. But it cannot be said that none of Scaloni's strategies worked. Because Argentina could not attack and kept Spain goalless until the 105th minute. Of course, it is a testament to Scaloni's good strategies that Argentina kept Spain in the defensive line for a long time.
I was supporting Spain in this World Cup and I wanted Spain to win. However, everyone was happy with Spain's performance in the final match, and why should not they be happy? The way Spain played in the final match, Argentina really couldn't beat them for 90 minutes. I was surprised that a player like Messi couldn't do anything in this game, but, from the beginning, based on Spain's performance against every team, you could say that Spain deserved to be the champion of this World Cup and they won.
Spain dominated the last World Cup in the same way from the beginning. They dominated every match. When France became unstoppable, Spain said we are here. France's dynamic attacking stars could not show any dominance against Spain. But I think it would have been better if Portugal had won this World Cup instead of Spain. This year's World Cup was the last World Cup for Ronaldo, Neymar, Messi and other legendary players. While all the other players have had many achievements and failures in their history, football fans will never forget Ronaldo's failure. If Ronaldo had won the World Cup, no team's fans would have regretted it. It would have been a traditional witness in football history. It would have been the perfect achievement of a player's life. But above all, reality always moves at its own pace. Spain performed consistently from the beginning to the end of the World Cup, and they were the ones who deserved the trophy.
Very nicely said, although I wouldn't really agree with the statement that Spain dominated every game.
Yes, they had possession of the ball in every game, but not necessarily a positive result. For example, in the group they only played 0:0 with Cape Verde and they struggled against Uruguay and only beat them 1:0 after Uruguay was left with 1 player on them.
In the quarter-finals they had a very difficult game against Belgium, because after Spain took the lead, the Belgian team managed to equalize at 1:1.
The game was very uncertain and open at that moment and was decided by 1 detail, the injury of Belgium's first goalkeeper Courtois because his substitute made a big mistake in the rest of the game and conceded a goal, which allowed Spain to win and avoid extra time.
Of course, I'm not saying that Spain didn't deserve to win the world championship, but in some difficult moments they were a little lucky, unlike the last 2022 World Cup in Qatar when they had perhaps a better team but were eliminated on penalties by Morocco.
As for the stars, Messi and Ronaldo, I think that they won everything they could have won on a club and personal level, and it cannot be said that they were unsuccessful on the national team level because Argentina was both the world and South American champion, and Portugal was the European champion.
Honestly, Portugal would probably have done a lot more at these last 2 World Cups if they had played without Ronaldo, a player with a big ego who didn't know when enough was enough and when his ego and great ambition hurt the team instead of helping it.
