AL KHOR (Doha): The drums kept on beating. The whistles kept on shrieking. Morocco’s players kept on coming, again and again, their legs burning and their lungs heaving, as they raged against the dying of the light. At the end, Morocco had run out of road. At no point, not for a second, did it run out of fight.
The World Cup, then, will culminate in the sort of blockbuster final that both FIFA and hosts Qatar have craved: Lionel Messi’s Argentina against Kylian Mbappe, his heir apparent, and France.
