Will the 2026 World Cup final live up to what we saw in 2022? One year from Saturday, we will witness the grand finale of the ...

Sports; A Lionel Messi-Kylian Mbappé World Cup final (with some other good players, too) Dec. 17, 2022 Updated Sat., Dec. 17, 2022 at 8:08 p.m.

It is why, to many, Messi needs to win the World Cup to join Pelé and Maradona in the pantheon of the greatest ever players, even if deciding who is No. 1, 2 and 3 comes down to individual choice.

Lionel Messi’s World Cup finale will likely be his last game with Argentina. Getty Images Kylian Mbappe is looking for back-to-back World Cup titles with France.

Lionel Messi has his World Cup title, ... After Messi scored in extra time, Mbappe equalized again. He won the Golden Boot with eight goals, the most in a single World Cup since Ronaldo in 2002.

Given the stakes, Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe engineered quite possibly the greatest game’s greatest game. ... There has been a fractured reality all the way through the Qatar World Cup, ...

Messi showed he’s in the debate for soccer’s greatest ever by leading Argentina to victory on penalty kicks, and Mbappé showed he soon could be in that conversation by scoring a hat tri… ...

Messi’s two assists kept Argentina in the game, but Mbappé’s two goals propelled France to the quarterfinals — and, eventually, a World Cup title. Of course, reports of Messi’s demise ...

A Lionel Messi-Kylian Mbappé World Cup final (with some other good players, too) Updated December 17, 2022. 7 min. Kylian Mbappé has helped lift France to Sunday's World Cup final.

Watching Neymar, Mbappe, De Bruyne and Messi at the World Cup: Injured, humbled and adored. James Horncastle. Nov. 24, 2022 Updated Nov. 27, 2022. Don’t look up in Doha. You won’t see the stars.

Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe go head-to-head at the Lusail Stadium today, with both the 2022 World Cup and Golden Boot up for grabs. Both men have scored five goals at the tournament in Qatar .