Argentina won the World Cup after 36 years by shocking France on penalties

Argentina won the World Cup after 36 years. Argentina won the World Cup by defeating France 4-2 in a tiebreaker in an exciting and dramatic match at Lusail Stadium in Qatar.

This is Argentina's third title after winning the World Cup in 1978 and 1986, and after 36 years, they won the World Cup.

France's Kylian Mbappe converted the first penalty in the tiebreaker. Then Argentina's Lionel Messi scored.

But Kingsley Coman, who scored the second penalty for France, was blocked by the Argentinian keeper.

Argentina's second penalty was converted by Paulo Dybala.

Trailing 2-1, France's third penalty was scored by Aurelian.

Leonardo Pardes scored the third penalty for Argentina to make the tiebreaker 3-1.

France's fourth penalty was scored by Randanel Colomuni, but Gonzalo Montel netted the fourth penalty for Argentina.

Earlier in the game, Argentina could not save the lead taken 2 times, so the game reached a tiebreaker.

Argentina had a 2-0 lead for 80 minutes. Lionel Messi gave the team the lead by scoring a penalty in the 23rd minute. Di Maria doubled Argentina's lead in the 36th minute.

After a dull performance in the first half, France returned to the game in the second half. But France had to wait until the 80th minute to score. Kylian Mbappé, who scored a penalty in the 80th minute, equalized the game by scoring another goal within 90 seconds.

After 2-2 goals from both teams in the scheduled 90 minutes, the match was pushed to extra time. In the 108th minute, Messi scored the second goal to give the team the lead again.

But France got another penalty in the 118th minute. Which the young star Mbappe did not let go to waste. Although he completed a hat-trick in the World Cup final, his team lost in the tiebreaker and the dream of winning the World Cup for the second time in a row could not be fulfilled.