This is simply amazing. After more than 120 minutes of exciting football, Argentina and France find themselves in a penalty shootout with the World Cup on the line. After going through a phenomenal group stage and exciting knockout rounds throughout this tournament, it really doesn’t get any better than this.
But before we see what comes next, we must understand how this chaos somehow surpassed the last meeting between these two nations, why we are in the Middle East in the dead of winter and what a victory would mean for two of the game’s top stars, Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi. For Mbappé, a victory would further solidify his status as one of football’s best, adding a second World Cup to his promising young career. For Messi, it could well be his last World Cup in a career filled with countless achievements, but a trophy that has eluded him for years.
