That’s the lot for today. Thanks for reading and for all the emails, which have been uniformly excellent. I’ll be back for more red-hot World Cup blog action tomorrow so see you then.
Thanks for the email, Santiago, and good luck for the final – not that you need it if you will be celebrating no matter the result.
I think it’s clear that France are stronger as a squad, and man-for-man, than Argentina. But the idea that Messi’s genius can drag Argentina to a World Cup and emulate Diego Maradona, while increasingly well-worn in the past few weeks, is certainly a seductive one.
