Argentina vs. France, much more than a title: How many goals must they score for Qatar 2022 to be a record?

“It’s the best World Cup in history”said Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, sticking out his chest. Beyond his controversial statements about a controversial tournament, Qatar 2022 is struggling to be remembered as the world Cup most goalscorer, something that they have as a slogan to achieve Argentina and Francethe finalists, this Sunday, December 18.

Behind the Croatia 2-1 against Moroccos for third place, the current edition reached 165 goalsranking fourth in the peculiar ranking of World Cup tournaments with the most celebrations.

The Croatian defender, followed by Manchester City, according to the English press, Josko Gvardiol; the moroccan Achraf Dari; and the other European, mislav orsic They were the authors of the goals in a great match that they gave us for third place in the World Cup. A game that did not generate so many expectations, but was exciting from start to finish.

Now it is in the hands -or feet- of Argentina and France to find out if Qatar 2022 will manage to overcome the fence of the 171 celebrations. From the outset, a good piece of information is that both teams have the top scorers of the tournament. On one side will be Lionel Messi (5) and Julián Álvarez (4); on the other, Kylian Mbappé (5) and Olivier Giroud (4).

In fact, only against Saudi Arabia, in his debut, he scored only once. From then on, until the semifinals, he celebrated twice per game. Against Croatia he did it three times. In total, the South Americans scored 12 times.

For his part, France have 13 goals so far in their campaign in Qatar. Solo did not score against Tunisia for the third date of the group stage to which they arrived classified. Later they have shown that the goals fall out of their pockets. They attack on the wings, in the middle, from above, from below.

Although, of course, it is a final and both teams will take their precautions so as not to be exposed. In fact, only in Russia 2018 Three goals or more have been scored (France beat Croatia 4-2) since 1998, the year in which the Frenchmen defeated Brazil 3-0. From then on they were almost always adjusted results.

Spain in the biggest win; England, in the game with the most goals

Of the 63 games that have been played so far, the Spain (7-0) Costa Rica is registered as the biggest win in the World Cup, surpassing the Portugal 6-1 against South Korea. The ‘Red’ thrashed the Central American team on the first date of group E; however, he was eliminated in the round of 16.

But the duel of Spain-Costa Rica He is not the one who had the most goals. England and Iran met on the first day of group B and the English thrashed 6-2, taking the match with the most celebrations in Qatar 2022.

On the other side, there have been seven 0-0 matches so far in the tournament. A low figure considering the number of games that have been played. In addition, neither Argentina nor France have finished their respective matches without celebrations, either from them or from their rivals on duty.

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