As Mercado scored that goal he’d not want to describe to his grandchildren, France were yet to come together as a group or display their cohesiveness as a group. They were sitting back till then letting Argentina have the lion’s share of possession.
However, that’s not how things ought to have been going for Les Bleus against this Argentinian side. In fact, falling behind sprang them to life. Kante was tracking back with more fire in his eyes, Matuidi was looking hungry going forward and Pogba was ready to dance past whatever life threw at him.
It was a delightful ball from Blaise Matuidi to Lucas Hernandez that started the move for France’s 2nd goal of the night which brought them back to level terms with La Albiceleste. Pavard scored one of the goals of the tournament after giving the ball the best slicing it has had till Phil Jagielka took over the internet a while ago in 2014.
They were committing their resources to the final third and that helped them procure the lead as Kylian Mbappe’s freakshow inside the box bore fruit. Shortly afterwards, France scored the goal we’d all been waiting for.
The move started from Hugo Lloris and 3 passes later Giroud teed up Mbappe inside the box and the teenager, brimming with confidence, ran onto it and dispatched it, first time, past Armani.