This is destined to be a classic battle recorded in the history of the World Cup.
Almost all the football elements that can stimulate the adrenaline rush of fans are gathered in this game. Hearty goals, fierce collisions, controversial penalty kicks, shocking reversals, goal-line goals, exciting overtime and a cruel and suffocating penalty shootout.
In addition to these simple stimulating elements on the scene, there is something more touching that gives this game a special and unforgettable feeling for Argentine football. This feeling originated from Maradona "Hand of God" in 1986, and is rooted in Batty's cool and elegant style of scoring goals like a god of war. Of course, there are also wonderful moments and classic scenes about Argentine football in the World Cup.
And all these unique feelings towards Argentine football have now been boiled down to a very concrete point, that is Messi . In Messi's career, he has won almost all the awards a football player can win, Ballon d'Or , World Footballer , and the club championship trophies that he has won one after another. There is only one trophy that he has not touched now, and that is the Hercules Cup that he has been dreaming of for 16 years.
Many people are saying that Messi is only one very concrete Hercules Cup away from becoming the world champion and rivaling Maradona. This World Cup is the last World Cup of Messi's career and his last chance to compete for the World Cup. After all, he is 35 years old. If he fails this time, Messi will never become the king of football, and there will always be a World Cup between him and Maradona.
As a result, Messi's desire for the World Cup has almost become a dream shared by most Chinese fans this winter. Fans all over the world, like Chinese fans, are praying that the goddess of luck in this World Cup will come to Messi. Because only in this way can we live up to the noble soul of a football genius who is independent and independent.
Di Maria created a penalty kick, Messi scored in one stroke, and the Argentine team got a dream start in this field. Immediately afterwards, Messi showed his master-level guidance skills, freely instigated with his instep outside the midfield, and directed a textbook goal, and Di Maria completed the fatal blow. After only 35 minutes of play in the first half, Argentina led 2:0.
After changing sides and fighting again, Argentina still firmly controlled the situation. The French team could only parry and had no power to fight back. However, at this time, Argentina coach Scaloni made a fatal mistake. He was so careless that he took off Di Maria, who had scored two goals in the first half, in advance.
Scaloni paid a heavy price for this brainless substitution. Without Di Maria, Argentina's frontcourt offense became weak and disorganized. At this time, the French team, through substitutions and adjustments, has become unstoppable, like a sharp knife unsheathed. Mbappe scored twice, which directly changed the situation on the court. At 2:2, the game entered cruel overtime, and all Argentine fans in the audience were silent.
In overtime, Messi scored in just one second in front of the goal, which was thought to have killed the game. But at the last moment, his teammate Mbappe once again became the biggest stumbling block preventing Messi from winning the championship. He personally completed a hat trick in this game. 3:3, the two teams are still hard to tell, and a suffocating penalty shootout is inevitable. If it weren't for coach Scaloni's hasty substitutions, Argentina would not have played so hard and dangerously.
The penalty shootout depends entirely on the care of Lady Luck. Fortunately, Goddess of Luck finally chose Messi this time and abandoned the younger Mbappe. It seems that God is also taking pity on Messi and has fulfilled his greatest wish in life. What a happy ending to the World Cup. When Saint-Martin saved two penalty kicks from the French team, everything was settled. Messi ascended to the top of the world. From then on, there was no objection in the world.
When Messi picked up the Hercules Cup, a question mark also flashed through my heart: Is all this really a script? If the World Cup had really written the script long ago, Scaloni almost became the one to rewrite the script.