French roosters shout victory in Russia's night

The French national football team won its second world title after defeating the Croatian team 4-2 today, Sunday, in the final match of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The French team ended the Croatian adventure, and French star Antoine Griezmann and his companions inflicted a severe defeat on the Croatian battalion at the famous “Luzhniki” stadium in the Russian capital, Moscow, to crown the Blue Roosters with their second world title two decades after winning the first title in 1998 in France.

The French team denied Croatia the world title for the first time, knowing that it was the first time that the Croatian team participated in the World Cup final.
The first half of the match ended with the French team advancing 2-1 after an exciting performance by both teams, noting that the Croatian team had the most control over the course of the game and possession of the ball.

The Croatian team paid the price for the mistakes of its players inside the penalty area, where the first goal of the French team came from friendly fire after a free kick played by the French Antoine Griezmann, and the Croatian striker Mario Mandzukic tried to keep it away, but he turned it into his team's goal by mistake in the 18th minute.
Ivan Perisic equalized for the Croatian team in the 28th minute, but Antoine Griezmann gave the French team the lead in the 38th minute from a penalty awarded by the referee after using the video assistant referee (VAR).
In the second half, the performance became a debate between the two teams, and the French team surprised its opponent with two consecutive goals scored by Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappe in the 59th and 65th minutes, to be Pogba's first goal and the fourth for Mbappe in this tournament.
Mario Mandzukic responded with the second goal of the Croatian team in the 69th minute, to be his third goal in the current World Cup.
The match began with consecutive offensive skirmishes from the Croatian team, which had the most possession of the ball in the first minutes.
On the other hand, the French team played relying on strong pressure on the Croatian players and blocking the roads leading to the French penalty area.
Modric played a corner kick in the eighth minute, which was immediately pushed away by the French defense.
And the ball arrived from a long pass in the 11th minute to Ivan Perisic inside the French penalty area, but he could not control it, so the ball went out to a goal kick.
The French midfielders tried to relieve the pressure on their teammates in defense with some futile offensive attempts.
And the 15th minute witnessed a quick counter-attack by Croatia, Perisic crossed the ball from the right side, but it hit the defense and moved away from the penalty area.
In the first appearance of French striker Antoine Griezmann in the match, the player got a free kick outside the Croatia penalty area after being fouled by Marcelo Brozovic.
Griezmann played the free kick in the direction of the goal and the Croatian striker Mario Mandzukic tried to clear the ball, but he turned it with his head into the goal by mistake in a very difficult angle to the right of goalkeeper Daniel Subasic to be the goal of the French team in the 18th minute of his first real attempt on the Croatian goal.

The Croatian team intensified its attack in the following minutes in search of the equalizing goal, but it collided with the agglomerated and organized defense of the French team, which relied on its attack on the quick rebounds, taking advantage of the rush of Croatia in the attack.
And the Frenchman, N'Golo Kante, received a yellow card in the 27th minute for Persic's kick in order to stop a fast and dangerous Croatian attack.
The Croatian team took advantage of the free kick and scored the equalizer in the 28th minute when Modric played the free kick and moved between more than one Croatian player inside the French penalty area, then Domagov Vida prepared it for his teammate, Perisic, who was motivated on the border of the penalty area, to prepare the latter for himself and shot it in the difficult corner to the left of the French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.
The two teams exchanged attacks in the following minutes, until the 35th minute witnessed the height of excitement when Griezmann played a dangerous corner kick and the ball hit the hand of player Perisic and went out to a corner, while the French players went to the referee demanding a penalty kick.
The referee responded to the demands of the French players and resorted to the use of the video assistant referee (VAR) system, where the video referees asked him to watch the game himself, and the Argentine referee then blew the whistle, announcing the award of a penalty kick to France.
Griezmann hit the penalty kick in the 38th minute to the right of goalkeeper Subasic, scoring the first goal for the roosters.

The goal aroused the ire of the Croatian team, which rushed in the attack in search of the equalizing goal and posed a great danger in more than one ball, but suffered a lot of misfortune in front of the French goal, so that the first half ended with the French team advancing 2/1 despite the Croatian team's possession of the ball by more than 60 percent during this inning.
The Croatian team began the second half with consecutive offensive attempts, but the first chance in the match was a powerful shot from Griezmann from a distance in the 47th minute, which went into the hands of goalkeeper Subasic.
The Croatian national team responded with a quick attack, in which Rakitic exchanged the ball with Rebic, who ended the attack with a strong, surprising shot that Lloris kept with his fingertips over the crossbar.
The Croatian chances were many in the following minutes, but luck continued to be stubborn for the team.

In the 53rd minute, two fans went to the field, but were quickly taken out by security personnel, so the referee resumed the match.
Didier Deschamps, coach of the French national team, paid his player Stephen Nzonzi in the 55th minute instead of Kante.
The two teams exchanged attacks in the following minutes, before the French team translated one of its attacks into a reassuring goal in the 59th minute, signed by Paul Pogba.
Kylian Mbappe took advantage of the quick counter-attack and manipulated the Croatian defense and then passed the ball into the penalty area to hit the defense and prepare for his colleague Griezmann, who in turn passed it to Pogba motivated on the borders of the area, where he shot the ball strong towards the goal to hit the defense and bounce back to him to shoot it again with his left into the goal to the right of the goalkeeper.
The French team took advantage of the confusion in the ranks of its opponent, and scored the fourth goal in the 65th minute, signed by Mbappe.
The goal came when Lucas Hernandez manipulated the Croatian players on the left side and then passed the ball to the motivated Mbappe in front of the penalty area arc.
The excitement continued in the following minutes, and Mandzukic scored the second goal for Croatia in the 69th minute.
The goal came when the defense returned the ball to Loris, who tried to dribble Mandzukic in front of the goal, but the latter pressed him, so the ball hit him and wobbled into the goal.
The last third of the hour witnessed attacks and mutual attempts by the two teams and changes from their coaches, but to no avail. The match ended with the French roosters winning 4/2.