Topic: Qatar world cup Final Predictions - page 2. (Read 6279 times)

Yes, there's indeed a good chance that the Qatar World Cup was going to be the last World Cup for the both of them considering their age and the timetable of the next World Cup that will be hosted by the United States of America. Although, both of them haven't spoke yet about the likeliness of this matter but I've read an article that said that CR7's last dance will be in UEFA Euro this coming 2024.

Winning the world cup is once in a lifetime opportunity. Messi was fortunate enough to have his name inscribed in world cup trophy. This was his last chance and he managed to win the world cup. At the same time, this was the last world cup (probably) for Cristiano Ronaldo as well. Unlike Messi, he had a rather forgettable tournament where he was continuously humiliated by his own team. Qatar 2022 was probably the last major tournament for these players as well - Pepe, Dani Alves, Thiago Silva and Danny Vukovic. The oldest player was Alfredo Talavera (only player who was aged 40 or more).   

It was as tough ride for the whole team before they reached to the Finals and their opponent that time wasn't easy either because it was France that has tough and agile players as well. Many believed that Mbappe and the whole team will be the ones to go home with the trophy but the opposite happened because Argentina defended it well, so that they will be the ones who will go home celebrating the win.

As a Messi fan, I'm glad to see him winning the World Cup as that's the only thing missing in his collection and I'm happy that he actually completed it before he retired. As everyone thinks, including me, I do really think that this will be his last World Cup.

I don't think so, because it is a matter of tactics of the two coaches. fortunately, Scaloni's strategy and formula worked and were effective. we can see, that Didie Descamps would not have thought that D Maria would be played from the early minutes. Scaloni knows that France has weaknesses in the defense line, namely from the Jules Kounde sector. how come, because Scaloni knows very well that Dembele rarely goes down to help his team's defense. plus, Alexis Mac Allister stepped forward a little so that Kounde couldn't help but have to overshadow him.

in the end, D Maria has free space to dribble with her skills. and goals created two goals for Argentina.

on the French side, Descamps' foresight deliberately pulled Dembele and Giroud out of the field to get Scaloni's attention to relax his attacks. and apparently, Descamps' bait was eaten raw by Scaloni who thought Argentina was already in a safe position and Scaloni pulled D maria and was replaced by Acuna. in fact no, the inclusion of Kingsley Coman threw Argentina's formation into disarray. moreover, the strategy implemented in the first half was countered by the French defense line because Coman helped defend his team. in the end, Argentina had to be forced into a penalty shoot-out. but in the end, luck sided with the Argentinian Squad and Lionel Messi.
Regarding Messi's achievements, we don't need to debate anymore. that he had won a trophy that he had previously dreamed of.

After 36 years, Argentina ended their title drought under Messi. Along with this, Argentine star has taken himself to a unique height by winning this World Cup. Star player who have won the World Cup, Champions League and Ballon d'Or are called the 'Triple Crown' club. Messi became a member of that traditional club by winning the World Cup in Qatar. There was one blemish in Messi's career, and that was the World Cup. Argentina beat France on a tiebreaker in a thrilling final in Qatar to lift the title for the third time. The Qatar World Cup will be remembered by people for a long time than any other World Cup.

The story of Messi's last chance to become world champion was so intense and so well received by the public that it was to be expected that the Argentine national team would have a mild support from the FIFA structures to go all the way in the competition and become world champions.
I don't know if any national team has had so many penalties awarded in their favor in the history of the World Cup.
Nevertheless, regardless of everything, it cannot be said that the Argentine national team did not deserve to become the world champion.
Messi was the best player at the World Cup, and they played really well in defense.
However, without Messi they will not be favorites for the new world champion title in 4 years.

I think Messi winning the world cup was the right ending, it was just nice to see his career end like that. A nice wrap up of a fantastic player history.

On the other hand, seeing Cristiano Ronaldo going to play now at Saudi Arabia seems like his career ended on a very different path. He reminded me of Pirlo who is now doing non-soccer ads for Qatar.

You are right - Messi was given so much advantage at one point my brother said - they will make Argentina win the world cup - - on the other hand my favourite Ronaldo has now officially joined AL Nasser - and his followed increased drastically - Saudis have given him an immense protocol and he is the most loved and admired celebrity.

I think the world cup was really meany for Messi which is from Argentina because there were so many favor that was given to Messi including red card but was still ignored. The world cup was one of the most interesting world cup I have ever watch that the final was really interesting with other countries team that made it a remarkable one. It was true that Ronaldo that would have make it to the final couldn't reach it.

Quite surprised to see this thread still open despite of the fact that the Qatar World Cup was already finished last December 18 of 2022. OP needs to close this thread because there's no discussion needed anymore as I stated that World Cup was already over and this thread has become a spam thread already. There will be another thread that will be open soon enough to cater some predictions in the upcoming World Cup 2026.

Congrats again to Lionel Messi and Co.

yesterday's final match between france vs argentina was a very extraordinary song, I saw how mbappe and messi put on an extraordinary performance between each of them

in the 2026 world cup later, I think it will be difficult for us to be able to see an extraordinary show like that final match. argentina and francis are an amazing team.

the world has lost a star Pele ( 1940 - 2022 ) Brazil is mourning
Pele led Brazil in three world cup - as I write  there is 24 hour wake going on in Brazil
Newly inaugurated president Lula will be also attending his wake. That is how the sportsman's are honored - PEle was in hospital when one of the success Brazilian player held the Pele banner. Rest in peace legend.

I think this is just the proper time for Argentina to win the World cup, France tried their possible best with all their best performance but couldn't win the world cup. Messi deserve to be a world cup champion and he ended up having it towards the era of the end of his career.

I agree with you, I am personally happy for Messi, he did put his best in in their finals match against France, though i cant ignore Mbappe's efforts, that guy is damn so good that at some point in the game, i began to wish and hope that France would win the World cup again, but knowing that this could possibly be Messi's last world cup, i knew he deserved to win it, and i am glad that he later did together with his team .

The 2022 world cup finals was suspense filled, it was one of the hottest football match I've ever watched.

We didn't see what we were expecting from teams, their was so many changes in the performance of teams. The world cup was so hard to predict, Africa teams showed good performance better than before.

IT was rude of him to do what he did with his golden glove award. It is well said - you should remain humble during your victory and defeat.
The world was watching them and he was too lousy with his award. But at the end they won and took home the title.

Martinez was indispensable for Argentina in the final, but actually throughout the tournament. He was extremely unsportsmanlike, but in the end he didn't do anything that wasn't allowed. The management of Aston Villa still wants to talk to him about his (mis)behavior during the World Cup. It is strange that he is reserve keeper of the national team of Argentina, while he is the reserve keeper at Aston Villa. It was a memorable final, one we will not soon forget. And Messi can now rightly be called the best player of all time after winning the title. He was also very important for Argentina.

Martinez did the best and he's a key player for the winning of the World Cup. He had made big thing and for the same he should not hurt the opponent. During the prize distribution ceremony what he does is really bad. Same as that he did something worse when he's on the welcome rally. These activities could lower his game performance in the future.

Emiliano Martinez has played one of the roles behind Argentina's victory. He made a great save in the last minute of extra time. In view of which the game went to penalty shootout. And finally Argentina secured their dream final victory.

There were other goalkeeper too who did so well during the world cup - although the players played so well. and at the last moment the whole burden in on the goalkeeper. luckily Martinez won.