WORLD CUP FINAL 2018

 

FRANCE  –  CROATIA   4  –  2

 

 

GOALSCORERS :

Mario MANDZUKIC (Croatia)   1 own goal

Mario MANDZUKIC (Croatia)   1     TOTAL WC 2018 : 3

Ivan PERISIC (Croatia)  1        TOTAL WC 2018 : 3

Antoine GRIEZMANN (France)   1      TOTAL WC 2018 : 4

Paul POGBA  (France)  1

Kylian M’BAPPE  (France)  1     TOTAL WC 2018 : 4

 

 

ASSISTS :

Antoine GRIEZMANN (France)  1     TOTAL WC 2018 : 3

Lucas HERNANDEZ (France)  1      TOTAL WC 2018 : 2

 

SPECTATORS :

78 011

 

REFEREE :

Nestor PITANA  (Argentina)

 

MOST CAPS ON THE FIELD :

France : Hugo LLORIS   106 caps

Croatia : Luka MODRIC  114 caps

 

BEST INTERNATIONAL GOALSCORER ON THE FIELD :

France : Olivier GIROUD  31 goals

Croatia : Mario MANDZUKIC  32 goals

 

STADIUM :

Luzhniki Stadium MOSCOW

 

RECORDS :

Didier DESCHAMPS is the third person in the World to be WORLD CUP winner as Player (1998) and Coach (2018). He joined Brazilian Mario Zagalo and German Franz Beckenbauer in the ranking.
It was the most goal-scoring WC final since 1966 when England beat Germany with same score 4:2 (but after 120 minutes).

Mario Mandzukic has scored the first ever own goal in the final match of WC.

France played WC final with youngest XI for last 40 years. The average age of players made 26 years 90 days.

Mbappe (France) became second youngest player in the history who scored in WC final (19 years 207 days). Only Pele is ahead of him (17 years 249 days).

 

 

4