Interesting Facts about Final Match of FIFA World Cup 2018 Final
Fifa World Cup 2018 ended yesterday and after 30 days, 64 matches France emerged as world champions from 32 Teams participated. In the Final, France managed to make win over Croatia from the Goals of star players Antoine Griezmann, Paul Pogba , 19-year-old Kylian Mbappe . But do you know in this final match some interesting records are made which I am going to share over here.
image source: Forbes Sports.
Before That I want to share normal statistics of the match with guys who didn't watch statistics.
| France | Team Stats | Croatia |
|---|---|---|
| 4-4-2 | LineUp | 4-1-4-1 |
| 7 | Shots | 14 |
| 6 | Shots on Target | 4 |
| 34% | Possession | 66% |
| 289 | Passes | 528 |
| 68% | Pass Accuracy | 83% |
| 13 | Fouls | 13 |
| 2 | Yellow cards | 1 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 1 | Offsides | 1 |
| 2 | Corners | 6 |
| 99KM | Distance Covered | 100KM |
Some Interesting Facts
1. Mandzukic is the first player in the football history to have own goal in final match of World Cup.
2. France is undefeated in last 18 matches when Paul Pogba and N. Kante both played for them(14 Win,4 Draw).
3.Rafael Varane is fifth French player to play final of Champions League and World cup in the same year.
4.K. Mbappe(19 years 207 days ) is the third youngest Player to play the world cup Final after Pele(17 years 249 days) and Giuseppe Bergomi(18 years 201 days).
5.K. Mbappe is the second youngest player to score a goal in world cup final.
6. Perisic participated in 11 goals(7 goals, 4 assists) in main competitions leaving Davor Šuker(10) behind.
7. Antoine Griezmann scored 12 goals in elimination rounds of main competitions. Best performance from France from last 50 years.
8. France is undefeated in the games when Antoine Griezmann scored a goal.
9. That was 5th penalty in world cup final and goal is scored at each penalty. Last penalty was taken by Zinedine Zidane against Italy in 2006.
10. After 1974 first time 3 goals scored in first half of World cup final.(Germany 2-1 Netherlands).
11.is the second player in the World cup history to have own goal and scored a goal in same match after Ernie Brandts (vs Italy 1978).
