What a finale it was to this 31-day festival of football, as Gareth Southgate called it, and it was the highest-scoring final since England beat West Germany 4-2 in 1966. To secure its status as the best ever World Cup the tournament needed a memorable final. But only after the most remarkable, crazy and controversial encounter against a courageous Croatia in which there was a VAR storm, and an actual storm in the skies above Moscow, a first-ever own goal in a World Cup Final, a cool strike from a new global superstar, an horrific goalkeeping blunder by the man who lifted the trophy - and a Pussy Riot pitch invasion. The day after Bastille Day France are champions and deservedly so. We will miss this World Cup like no other. World Cup final goalscorer Kylian Mbappe: The making of a global sensation.Player ratings: who starred in the World Cup final?.
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