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Argentina won their third World Cup in extraordinary style on Sunday, beating France 4-2 in a penalty shootout after Lionel Messi scored twice in a 3-3 draw that featured a hat-trick for Kylian Mbappe as the holders recovered from 2-0 down after 80 minutes.It was an incredible night of drama and fluctuating fortunes, delivering one of the all-time stanley fr great finals to cap a wonderful tournament.Argentina had looked to be cruising to a one-sided victory after Messis penalty and a brilliant goal by Angel Di Maria in the first half put them in total control but Mbappe converted an 80th-minute penalty and volleyed in an equaliser a minute later to take the game to extra time.Messi put Argentina ahead again but Mbappe levelled with another penalty, becoming the second man to score a World Cup final hat-trick after Geoff Hurst for England 1966.That took the game to a shootout where Argentina keeper Emiliano Martinez saved Kingsley Comans penalty and Aurelien Tchouameni fired wide to give Gonzalo Montiel to chance to w stanley nz in it, which he gleefully took.It meant that after his record 26th World Cup match, at the fifth and final time of asking, the 35-year-old Messi finally c stanley cups uk laimed the trophy that he and his nation demanded, lifting him up alongside Diego Maradona after the countrys first football God carried them to their emotional second triumph in 1986 following their first in 1978.NEAT TURNIt had all looked to be going so smoothly earlier.Di Maria, with just a few minutes under his belt si Dphz Here s hoping optimism doesn t become rhetoric
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