The Tactics Behind The Greatest Final Ever | Argentina 3*-3 France
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- Argentina vs France World Cup Final Tactics
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The world cup ended the only way it could, with one of the most exciting games of football the world has ever witnessed. Argentina completely dominated the game for 75 minutes thanks mostly to lionel messi and angel di maria. However thanks to clever substitutions by Dechamps and the individual brilliance of Mbappe, France miraculously found their way back in less than 2 minutes, taking the game into extra time. Another goal by messi and a hattrick from mbappe took the game to penalties,With Montiel and Martinez allowed messi to finally complete his trophy cabinet and bringing the world cup back to Argentina after 36 years. So what were the tactics that allowed Argentina to dominate the game, and how did France find their way back, let’s take a look.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:39 Starting XI & Stats
01:18 Argentina's Defensive Structure
02:57 Argentina's Structured Attacks
04:32 France's Changes & Reaction
05:45 Extra Time & Penalties - Sport
The way Argentina midfield play in the first half especially like they had 3 Kantes . They were everywhere running and closing down
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Yes, especially De Paul, I mean the guy isn't the smartest player but it seems that he had 10 lungs to run
I swear 😂 France were outplayed
It was liking watching Klopp's team playing. The way they pressed relentlessly was just mind blowing
@@LivFC maybe not this season tbh
I loved Scaloni's tactics throughout the cup, a very analytic and pragmatic manager that fielded different tactics to exploit the weaknesses of their opponents.
He did everything necessary to shut down the French system. A masterfully flexible coach that made tactical adjustments!
Scaloni's big error was putting in Acuna ... this changed the game; Di Maria was really the man of the match, he made the difference
Problem is Di Maria was recovering from an injury and couldnt make a full 90
Scaloni biggest mistake was not making fast subdues as soon as he saw his midfielders were running out of gas.
By the time Scaloni subdued Di Maria for Acuña, France had made already FIVE sustitutions, which is frikin insane.
Argentina had to face, literally, a new team in the second half, fresh out of the bench, with more stamina.
If anything, the fact that Argentina kept France at bay for so long with the same 11 starters speaks words about how superior argentinian team was.
I think scaloni took too long to make subs and the midfield was exhausted and were overrun. Maybe if he had refreshed that area earlier argentina would've dominated the entire game. The first half performance was one of the best I've seen by argentina.
Agree with this. While watching the game live, I was wondering why he wasn't being more decisive with substitutions unlike Deschamps. But it worked out for him in the end. A bit of good fortune for him, taking nothing away from his great achievement.
Same thoughts , he should have brought Paredes way earlier to bring extra energy to the midfield
@@islamgaziev1717 He had to get every drop out of De Paul. Scaloni did well you just have no power over penalties.
I was screaming as hell already at the 60' minute when I saw Deschamp benching four players while Argentina's midfield was running out of gas.
As a matter of fact, France subdued 7 PLAYERS already by the time Scaloni got his second sub on the field, which is insane. Argentina literally faced half a team coming from the bench fresh and with new stamina the whole second half.
If anything, it just shows how much superior argentinian team was tho, not only technically and strategically, but physically too. Keeping pressure at high levels for so long, with the same starters, against a whole new squad... You gotta be on point for something like that.
Very good. But strange how these analysis never mention penalty shootout and the tactics behind it. That, ultimately, decided the QF and also the final. Do people really think it's all about luck?
Gonzalo Montiel has shot a lot of penalties for River Plate. Has never missed. Leandro Paredes has now shot 9 penalties. Never missed. Paulo Dybala has shot 27 penalties and scored 23 of them. He's among the top 10 penalty takers in the world (even statistically). Those guys have been under pressure in similar situations many times. And even under extreme pressure they can take REASONABLE penalty kicks. All ARG guys were regular penalty takers. Was it a coincidence that Paredes, Dybala and Montiel were all brought in the end? Nope. The 5th taker was most likely Lautaro, who is ALSO a regular penalty taker. Penalty tally was obviously an important aspect of how this Scaloni's team was originally constructed together. At least it was a thing that was thought out carefully.
What France had? They walked young, inexperienced guys to the gallows. In the biggest event in the world. Guys that haven't shot penalties before. You saw it from their face that they were scared shitless. Giroud is a good taker, Griezmann not so good but at least those guys have tons of experience. They were already substituted so it wasn't the fault of the coach. But they didn't have any penalty takers in the pitch left.
There was a HUGE advantage for Argentina and on top of that Emiliano Martinez who is a known penalty shootout goalie.
Beats me why then PEN shootouts aren't usually analyzed at all, although it was THE deciding factor of the whole tournament.
PS: Here's a link of Montiel scoring penalties for River. czcams.com/video/-itovwpxmVs/video.html
Thank you so much for writing this. I didn't know these guys had such a phenomenal record in scoring penalties. No wonder Argentina looked unbeatable in a penalty shootout.
This is interesting.
The moment the game went to penalties shotouts we all internally knew it was over for France.
I mean, aside from the fact that Argentina had better kickers. France subdued it's starters in exchange for fresh players -but inexperienced- to imprint more stamina, which paid off in the short term with a tired argentinian team, but brought french game down as soon as Argentina subdued their players who were running out of gas.
Then... The goalkeeper. If Martinez is good at something (almost TOO good) is at penalties.
But the most important fact is... Argentina is the squad who has won most shoutout stages. Which is not a coincidence.
Scaloni was excellent throughout the tournament, especially with the decision to start Di Maria (on the left as well) and take an aggressive approach from the beginning of the match vs. France. But I thought Di Maria was subbed off a bit too early, and really wasn't sure why he brought Acuna in when Tagliafico was already on? A 5-3-2 with 15-20 minutes to go with Lisandro Martinez as the additional CB would have seen the match out, or a 4-4-2 with Paredes solidifying the midfield would have worked as well. Overall, really enjoyed watching the flexibility of Scaloni's systems throughout the tournament in response to the different type of oppositions. I did think it became a bit chaotic after substitutions or maybe the pressure got to Argentina toward the end of matches (especially vs. Australia, Netherlands and France). Anyway, congratulations to Scaloni and Argentina for being crowned world champions, and of course, Lionel Messi for cementing himself as the greatest of all time!
Di Maria was still recovering from injury and seriously gassed. They knew from the start he wouldn't be playing the whole 90 minutes
Di Maria substitution was very risky.....
Was rooting for France, Argentina and Messi desserved their win. But man, every time we cameback it was HYPE AF
Mbappe has a fantastic calm inside and around the box. He takes his time, doesn't panic, and takes the right shot. Amazing. In some ways reminds me of a young Messi. Though Mbappe is quicker IMO. Honestly was one of the best WC finals I have personally watched. I was up on my feet in amazement for most of the second half!
Mbappe is not on the level of old Messi.
I agree he's quicker tho.
I never imagined that football tactics can be so interesting especially if explained this way! Thank you
Having an exceptional player like Lionel Messi makes all tactics against him difficult to implement
History is fair to Messi
This WC is one of the fking best
Great Explanation!! Keep it up!!!!
The kounde-dembele duo was the worst idea by deshamps. Dembele as a half wing-back, and kounde playing more central has created them the first two goals
It literally worked a charm before the final, dont be reactionary. Argentina were simply better prepared to exploit them
@@TimedOut4noReason it worked because our oppositions were weak. no disrespect, we were just the "better" team going in our post group matches and as you said argentina was ready to punish us greatly, i still remember our french commentators saying at the start of the match "it seems like scaloni is thinking that our right side where kounde is is our weakness" ...
but to be honest, we were lacking in the midfield because they were both exhausted. deschamps made decisive subs for sure, but at the same time he simply ignored the core problem which led to not only di maria and lautaro rekting us but tchouameni missing his penalty too,.
all in all, i predicted that we would be clapped but it's still a shame after mbappe's performance and knowing that we could have done so much better if deschamps actually rotated our key players beforehands AND didn't sacrifice players along the way (like dembele, coman did well multiple times as a solo winger why not put him at the start ? why completely overlook players that have experience like the marseille midfield duo, pavard who got relegated to a third option as rightback, turning griezman into a defensive midfielder when he was our top scorer in the 2016 euro just to sub him in this final ? so many questions ...)
Great analysis
Great content
Best 1 month of my football life
Wow excellent analysis 😇😉🇮🇹🇪🇨🇩🇪
For me the best tactic at this world cup is the moroccan tactic
Che partitona! 💥
Mbappe once said South American football is outdated compared to European football. I’m glad that Argentina taught him a lesson!
Hardly, thank the refs. For winning the cup
I still cant believe that people don’t understandthat quote by mbappe. He meant it at club level. All of the players in argentines squad played in europe ffs
How many of those players are playing in South America?
1.
1 out of 26.
5 are playing in England
10 in Spain
2 in France
2 in Portugal
4 in Italy
1 in Germany
1 in the US.
24/26 players are playing in Europe.
@@rogeliomartinez251 123rd minute goal to France for that 😂😂😂
Except he didn't say it was outdated. This has been misrepresented so many times to make Mbappe look evil, when in reality all he said was that football tactics on a team level are not as good as Europe. He's fully aware of the unmatched individual talent that South America has, but he knows that those players always come to Europe to learn higher-level football. He also knows that Europe has exponentially more money invested into the sport as well.
I stopped watching post game coverage by espn fox etc. a long time ago. waste of time. YT channels like yours give us a no nonsense full analysis. TY!
Please Make An Analysis on 3-2-3-2 🙏
you mean the 5-3-2?
I looked for a bit, this is proabably Meta's closest video as of right now: czcams.com/video/LOr_lqoTc_o/video.html
Hope this helps, God bless, and have a great holidays!! :)
I'm really interested to see how France's tactics and football will change/remain the same after this display, and after Benzema retiring and Giroud being rather old. This French team is undoubtedly a favourite to win the next tournaments.
The diamond tatic is not dead
no way good ole Ota was keeping on pace with the french forwards at minute 80. Lisandro Martinez (on mbape) in place of a very tired DePaul was needed IMHO, and maybe Dybala (if Gomez was injured) in place of DiMaría
Absolutely. 80 minutes running like crazy took a tool on him. At minute 75' he was already playing against six new french players who had just came out from the bench. It's impossible to keep peace like that, Scaloni should have seen that one coming.
that "handball" that handed mbappe his 2nd penalty was bullshit. It was incidental. there was no way to avoid how the ball hit the argentina defender. poetic justice that this player is the one who scored the final penalty to win it for argentina.
Agree
It was totally clear handball
He didn't tried to keep his hands back
More like the 1st Argentina goal was unfair
Dembele didn't even touched di Maria
It was a clear dive
@@neel8407 1st off, the handball was unintentional. That ref had allowed the french to get away with one of those earlier in the match. And if the game was going to be called in that ticky tack manner, the french should have gotten a red card in the 1st half with the tackles they were putting in. So miss me with that bullshit. If ypu are calling di marias weak, im calling the 1st french PK weak as well as otamendi barely touched the guy. On top of all that Lauturo molinas goal should have been upheld as his elbow was the only thing offsides.
Before argentina it was French handball re directed to mpape
Intentional or not made his self bigger blocking a shot. Now let's talk about the di maria dive....
Imo I felt like France was going to loose when the penalty shootout began because it wasn’t their first shootout in the World Cup. The players has felt that pressure before unlike France’s young talented players
+ lloris is absolute garbage at penalties, with martinez being the polar opposite
Acuña = Acunya, not „Acuna“,
Angel di Maria = Anchel, not „Angle“.
muchaaaaaaachoooooos
I believe that Argentina won this final mainly because of the astonishing skills of its goalkeeper. He was the man of the match. The one on which the whole Argentina success was built on. Because if he wasn't that good, the game wouldn't have been taken to the penalties and Mbappe and his team mates would have brought the trophy back to France.
Another point is the tactical ability of the Argentina's forwards. It was very easy for them to overwhelm the bleus defense, but individual skills of the defenders were enough to abort most of the dangerous opportunities they created. Nonetheless it was one of the key weaknesses of France in this final. Overall it was a very entertaining and intense final indeed, everybody fought like lions till the last minutes.
France was a crystal cannon.
And they went one on one against a Panzer.
This Argentina squad has lost only two games of the 62 last matches they have played, not only they are deadly in the score, they are hella strong in defense.
Personally I think it’s the second greatest final after 66
For a short while, I thought Deschamps had done it with is smart tactical changes and substitutions!
As a sidenote, Kolo Muani is his last name, Randal being his first name.
They should have turned to attacking earnly on
What did I learn from this cup? Progressive Positional Play football is pretty much dead and that every single top attacking team absolutely suck at penalities.
Positional play is still alive in Barcelona, Spain, Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal, Brighton and PSG.
Mbappe is truly good because he scored 2 goals in the pen
Yeah hahaha
FRENKIE DE JONG
ENZO FERNANDEZ
PEDRI
"The midfield already changed the style!!! Because now the 4-3-1-2 is out. The double pivot is out. Brazil plays with Cassemiro? Is out. Spain plays with Carrosas in the midfield? IS OUT!
Vertigo won! Football CHANGED!
THE THREE ARGENTINIAN WINGS... FLY!!!
THEY FLY!!! IT'S ANOTHER KIND OF FOOTBALL PRESIDENT!
It changed because the pivot... What pivot? What pivot??? Here ar... Tarantellas!
Cassemiro and everyo... OUT! Argentina played with three kids THAT FLY and generated something DIFFERENT! Even if it had lost, it would have changed football...
And that's what we... What I have to analize. I saw Deschamp and... Deschamp saw it "spiky"... Spiky. They ate the game witj THREE WINGS he didn't expected!
BECAUSE WHEN MBAPPE, THE BUFFOON, TELL US THE ARGENTINIAN FOOTBALL IS OBSOLETE AND SLOW!!!
They picked up the phone and called Ferrari and said "Enzo... Send us three F1 red". They sent them three red ones. And Eccleston... Because of course, they had to call Eccleston since this kid McAllister plays for Brighton...
And then they did like... "Zzzppp zzzpp zzppp zzpppp"...
Listen... Tchaumeni... Stiffed... Uhmm... Griezman... Goodbye. And Rabiot... Goodbye! What are you telling me? That's where the game was at!
And Messi that lectured the 8's line. Messi played alone. He's still alone, he picked up the Cup, the cape and he runs alone, and Deschamp, this dude who punches the table... He didn't saw him! Deschamp YOU DIDN'T SAW HIM COMING!"
- Lucio -
Not the greatest final ever. Possibly the greatest game ever.
Barca 6-1 PSG in 2016
@@zharth. Bayern 8 - 0 barca
@@Songmyz Barcelona 5- 0 Madrid
Second viewer
The match would have been over in regular time had it not been for that French sub ready to fall down with barely any contact in penalty area. He wasn’t kicked or clipped and being bigger guy it’s a shame he fell down many times and finally got yellow
Just it’s not the most entertaining final that’s a fact.
I was rooting for the netherlands and was a casual french enjoyer. I got dicked down twice by the same team 🤮
LOL
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The only tactic is give the penalty to Pessi
The only tactic is to attract attention with poor, weak and subjective arguments without meaning just to defame and discredit.
the only tactic i saw , france creating zero chance till 80 mins
How on earth do you have a channel named Meta and not know what the word means?
It's not an acronym and never was
I love that people think mbappe played amazing because he scored four goals, three of which were pens 😂
I love that people think messi played amazing this tournament and won player of the tournament when he scored 4 pens out of 5, which is the most rewarded to any team in World Cup history
@@vantablack5690 - maybe you didn’t actually watch the ‘22WC so here are the HARD FACTUAL stats leading up to the final comparing a 35YR OLD Messi vs a 23yr Mbappe:
Games (Starts)
Lionel Messi - 6 (6)
Kylian Mbappe - 6 (5)
Goals
Lionel Messi - 5
Kylian Mbappe - 5
Assists
Lionel Messi - 3
Kylian Mbappe - 2
Minutes per goal or assist
Lionel Messi - 71
Kylian Mbappe - 68
Shot-creating actions per 90 minutes
Lionel Messi - 6.17
Kylian Mbappe - 8.10
Successful dribbles per 90 minutes
Lionel Messi - 2.4
Kylian Mbappe - 4
Shots per 90 minutes (inside penalty area)
Lionel Messi - 4.3 (2.7)
Kylian Mbappe - 4.7 (3.8)
Dispossessed per 90 minutes
Lionel Messi - 2.8
Kylian Mbappe - 1.9
Pass accuracy
Lionel Messi - 84.7%
Kylian Mbappe - 82.7%
😂 a 35yr old ranked 1st, 2nd on all the important stats and with a W in the final.
You’d have an argument if ARG didn’t score more goals than just penalties BUT you don’t.
www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/comparing-kylian-mbappe-lionel-messi-stats-at-qatar-2022-world-cup/
Those stats only increased in the final.
Well his second pen was from someone hand balling a shot that’s very likely to score. Martinez has his vision completely blocked by the defenders and the shot was on target and to the top right corner. It would take a blind and fully committed high jump to even touch the ball.
A hat trick should be redefined to exclude penalty kicks.
Do they not count?
Yes
bruh france lterally shouldve gotten two penalties at one point in the game they wouldve won if it werent for the ref
The referee who gave two penalties to France
@@asm7406 they shouldve gotten two MORE pens
@@footwithuke Oh of course, please enlighten us where those pens were. If you need 4 pens to win the game, you probably didn't deserve it considering you got dominated for 75 minutes and couldn't get a shot on target. Stop crying.
Mbappe was the real winner, Mbappe is better than Messi
Messi is the real winner and he is better than Mbappe, Mbappe is just faster.
Its easier when Fifa is on your side, refs let alot of calls go in favor of Argentina . Never forget this cup was rigged.
Keep crying.
You are jealous of Argentina 😅
The hell are you talking about it was a *FiXeD MaTcH*
You know who
So fixed we gave France 2 penalties and we had to win by penalties, indeed! And also against Holland, so obvious! Damn you crybabies never stop