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Moscow, Russia | AFP |

The France football team won its second World Cup title by beating Croatia 4-2 on Sunday in the Russia-2018 final in Moscow, 20 years after having achieved his first crown as a host

The Blues dominated at the Luzhniki stadium with goals from Mario Mandzukic (18, autogol), Antoine Griezmann (38, penalty), Paul Pogba (59) and Kylian Mbappé (65 years old).

The Balkan failures had obtained a partial draw with Ivan Perisic (28) and Mandzukic (69) obtained the reduction.

The match started with the planned script: France gave the initiative to the Croats and he stopped in front of his goalkeeper Hugo Lloris while waiting for his moment, which would come after the first quarter-hour, in a foul thrown by Griezmann, that Mandzukic deflected just enough to send the ball to the net, in the first goal against in the World Cup final throughout history (18).

Again, against Denmark in the second round, Russia in the quarterfinals and England in the semifinals, the Croatians started on the board, but if one thing showed Zlatko Dalic's team was a spirit of self-improvement and unshakeable faith, and Perisic leveled the score with a shot from the left foot from the front (28).

In the VAR World Championship, which had lost its importance in the second phase, video refereeing saw the final, in a Perisic hand that Argentine referee Néstor Pitana, after consulting the repetition, agreed to a maximum sentence that turned Griezmann into the 2-1 (38) with which the rest was reached.

The Croats They accuse of being back under the notice board and, although they never give up, they end up being overwhelmed by the speed of the Blues with two tips who sanctioned the match, first with Pogba (59) and then with Mbappé (65).

The last goal of Mandzukic (69th), taking advantage of a mistake by Hugo Lloris, was used to prevent Croatia from removing from Luzhniki an undeserved penalty for the proposed game throughout the championship.