In the 2022 Qatar World Cup final, Argentina defeated France in a penalty shootout to win the championship. How do you evaluate this game?

Finally, Messi scored twice in the final and won the World Cup.

Moreover, it is the absolute core identity, whether it is performance on the field or statistical results.

Before this game, Messi has gained many personal records related to the World Cup. but. Although these records are very long and long, before he actually won the Hercules Cup, there was always a lack of real value and significance.

Now winning the championship in this way, all these records, accompanied by this championship, let Messi have his own world in the history of the World Cup:

The most 26 appearances and the highest 17 victories; the cumulative goals and assists 21, also the most in history; and, the only player to win the World Cup Golden Globe twice (it should be no surprise).

There are also a series of other records, large and small, so I won’t mention them much.

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And Messi’s career, so far, finally has no regrets.

No one may have thought that in the twilight years of his career, when everyone thought that his national team honor could not go up to a higher level, Messi won the Copa America and the World Cup one after another.

Thinking back when Messi announced his withdrawal from the national team in frustration, and now he has won two intercontinental championships, it seems like a world away. For Messi’s fans, this is indeed the most satisfactory ending.

Pele, Maradona, and Messi after winning the championship today have become the three players in the first echelon of football history. Of course there will always be controversies, but as a fan, it is a great fortune to be able to witness what Messi has created.

In particular, he and his teammates, as well as opponents, completed what may be the most exciting final in the history of the World Cup.

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Today’s game, the first 70 minutes can be said to be a symbolic “Descamps-style defeat”.

He never takes the initiative to optimize and adjust the pre-match tactics according to the opponent, and always counts on the star to solve the problem after holding on. Today, after the start of the French team’s game, he has been pressing from a high position with a slightly higher intensity for a period of time, which is already the biggest change he has made.

As for Scaloni, he obviously did his homework before the game.

Since you like to hang around and rely on Mbappe to solve the problem, then my idea is not to let Mbappe touch the ball.

What I thought before the game was that Scaloni would cut off the pass line of the midfielder to Mbappe more. As a result, Scaloni came up with a more interesting tactic: I stopped attacking on my right. Put Di Maria on the left and the team’s attack is all tilted to that side.

There were even a few rounds in the first half, and you would find that Argentina implemented this tactic a bit too strictly. A few times when advancing with the ball in front of the penalty area, the space on the right actually opened up better, but Argentina still advanced to the left.

Argentina’s offensive focus is placed on the left. In addition to not giving Mbappe room to counterattack, there are several advantages:

When Messi retreats to organize, he is very smooth to give the ball to the left, so the instigation is very smooth;

France’s right-sided defense, although Dembele will still come back to help, but the experience is really not enough;

So under this arrangement, we saw that Di Maria made up for the regret in 2014 and continued to be the lucky player in the final of Argentina. And when Di Maria was full of energy, even though he was old, he still taught the French team’s defensive players one by one.

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Another huge failure of Deschamps’ tactics today is the defense of Messi. Without Messi’s natural enemy Kanter in the midfield, it is reasonable to still make a lot of targeted arrangements for Messi. You can choose not to let him catch the ball, you can choose not to let him play the ball. But Deschamps did nothing today.

As a result, Messi moved around very freely today, completely unrestricted, and connected Argentina’s offense very smoothly. Of course, Messi did show his last bit of energy and hard work today. He even participated in normal grabbing and strangulation many times.

He really wants to win,

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Deschamps, who was completely defeated in the opening tactics, showed his tactical thinking with three substitutions:

That is to give up the tactics I have been playing all the time, and use my body and stamina to charge against the Argentine team, which is short and stamina itself does not have an advantage. To be honest, this idea of substitution is indeed very strange. Moreover, this idea is to solve the battle in regular time.

After all, after winning the core including Griezmann, he will definitely suffer from penalty kicks afterwards.

Today, Scaloni, who had an extremely exciting opening strategy, seemed very hesitant when making the substitution.

After all, after leading by two goals last time, a substitution adjustment was made, but the result was mediocre. So today, even though DePaul was completely exhausted, Scaloni still stood still.

The result was punished.

The biggest negative effect of Argentina’s lack of physical strength is that the space between the three lines has become very large. For the young and powerful French players, this is their favorite situation, wide open, back and forth.

So within a few minutes, Mbappe scored twice. Deschamps’ tactic of beating the master to death began to work. Once the young people go crazy, they will not be able to pull back. After Argentina was equalized, the unified rhythm on the field was completely lost, and it was not clear whether it was offense or defense.

So in the last few minutes, the wind was jittery. Barely made it to overtime.

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After entering overtime, the French youth army, on the contrary, did not have a commander when they needed to take the initiative to control and attack, and did not know how to start. On the contrary, Argentina still organized several good counterattacks.

It’s just that the last few minutes are really, too thrilling. Both sides have a chance to kill. I have to say, this is the most exciting World Cup ever.

As for the penalty shootout, as I said before, it is indeed too difficult for young people in the French team who have not experienced these scenes to face a goalkeeper like San Martin.

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Argentina finally won the world championship again.

Before the competition, the Argentine team stated that they must do their best to help Messi win the championship, and this time we did see such an Argentine team on and off the field. There is no off-court news, no moths, just concentrate on every game.

Watching Alvarez and DePaul make huge moves every game, covering all the areas that Messi can’t run, there is really a rare so-called “sense of inheritance”.

Congratulations Argentina! Don’t cry for Argentina tonight!

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