That’s it for today. Thanks for reading and emailing. Let’s finish with a song each for France and Argentina (that you may remember from yesterday’s blog).
We’ll be back tomorrow with more live World Cup blogging as we lead up to the third-place playoff and Sunday’s final. Bye for now.
I did a bit of research on Messi v Mbappé head-to-head earlier. And I can tell you that if the World Cup was awarded on the basis of Instagram followers, Messi would walk it. He has 391m to Mbappè’s 78.3m.
They will of course be in opposition on Sunday, but who could forget Messi’s eight-second assist for Mbappé back in August, for Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1?
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