The French publication stopped a 4-3-3 team. And these were the 11 members of the ideal team. The goalkeeper, Livanovik (Croatia). A back line that is completed with Hakimi (Morocco), Saiss (Morocco), Gvardiol (Croatia), and Marcos Acuna (Argentina); the middle with Enzo Fernandez (Argentina), Amrabat (Morocco), and Luka Modric (Croatia). And up front, Saka (England) was chosen, Lionel Messi (Argentina) and Mbappé (France).
The teams from Argentina and France will try to win this Sunday at the Lusail Stadium, in the final of the World Cup in Qatar, their third star, a match in which the ‘Bleus’ aspire to defend the title for the first time in 60 years and in which the albiceleste, with Leo Messi at the helm, dreams of lifting the cup 36 years later.
Two titles contemplate the ‘Bleus’ (1998 and 2018), current champions, and another two to the Argentines (1978 and 1986), and this Sunday one of the two will sew a new star on his shirt to get closer to Brazil, five-time champion ( 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002), and Germany (1954, 1974, 1990 and 2014) and Italy (1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006), with four crowns each. All in a final that goes much further.
For Argentina, lifting the cup would mean the top moment of Leo Messi’s career, to whom his compatriots have always denied comparison with Diego Armando Maradona for lacking the golden trophy. It was precisely the ‘Fluff’, who died in 2020, the last Argentine to win a World Cup, in Mexico ’86.
Now, 36 years later, another ’10’, who was not even born when Maradona raised the trophy to the sky at the Azteca Stadium, wants to continue increasing his legend in his fifth World Cup, surely the one of his farewell at 35 years of age and the that might take away the ‘thorn’ of the final lost in Brazil 2014.
And it is that Lionel Scaloni’s men have gone from less to more in a tournament that began with a surprising defeat once morest Saudi Arabia. Victories once morest Mexico and Poland allowed them to advance to the qualifiers, where they beat Australia before surviving the dramatic and controversial duel once morest the Netherlands, resolved on penalties, in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, Croatia did not even worry the albiceleste (3-0).
Opposite, history also awaits France, which aspires to become the first team to revalidate the title since Pelé’s Brazil achieved it in 1962 (1958 and 1962), also emulating Italy in the thirties (1934 and 1938). It would also be his third star in 24 years, and all with a common denominator: Didier Deschamps.
The now French coach made history by achieving the first star for the ‘Bleus’ in 1998, and two decades later, in Russia, he was sitting on the bench when the team won their second. In Qatar, only four years later, he wants to continue being the charm of the French team.
To do this, he will have the invaluable help of Kylian Mbappé, the fashionable striker who, at only 23 years old, aspires to become a two-time world champion. The whole planet will watch him in his duel with Messi, his teammate at Paris Saint-Germain, on the biggest football stage in the world.
After the victories once morest Denmark (2-1) and Australia (4-1) and the inconsequential defeat once morest Tunisia (1-0) in the group stage, Poland (3-1), in the round of 16, and England (1-2) , in the quarterfinals, they fell to the defending champions, who defeated Morocco (2-0) to sneak into their second consecutive World Cup final.
All in a match marked by the so-called ‘camel virus’, a type of coronavirus that has affected several French players in recent days but will not prevent Deschamps from having all his men, including those ‘touched’ Varane, Tchouaméni , Konaté, Theo Hernández and Coman, in the final.
Hugo Lloris and ‘Dibu’ Martínez, decisive in this tournament, will challenge each other in a match in which, in addition to facing Messi and Mbappé, they will have to grow up once morest the good momentum of the rival attackers. Olivier Giroud, already the top scorer for the French team, and Antoine Griezmann, key to the French success, will examine the Argentine goalkeeper, while Julián Álvarez, who has won the position once morest Lautaro Martínez with four goals in the last four games, will put in the spotlight the captain of the ‘Bleus’.
Argentina and Francio will face each other from 12:00 pm in Chile at the Lusail Stadium. The Qatar 2022 curtain is lowered.
possible alignments
Argentina: Martinez; Nahuel Molina, Otamendi, Rosemary, Coin; De Paul, Enzo Fernandez, Mac Allister, Walls; Messi and Julian Alvarez.
France: Crying; Kound, Varane, Upamecano, Theo Fernandez; Tchouameni, Rabiot; Dembele, Mbappe, Griezmann and Giroud.
Original title: Ke Jie advanced to the top eight in the Chinese Go Masters Tournament
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 10. The 2nd Bay Area Cup China Go Masters Tournament ended the second round online on the 10th. Ke Jie, who ranked first in the domestic rankings, held the nine-dan black with three and three-quarters. The advantage eliminated Yi Lingtao and advanced to the quarterfinals.
Ke Jie, who is in charge of the black, has the advantage most of the time, but when he is regarding to enter the official stage, Ke Jie’s judgment of the situation is not accurate enough, and his walk is not very concise, and the situation becomes a little chaotic. However, Yi Lingtao failed to seize the opportunity to search for black, and in the end Ke Jie won without any risk.
Among the other three top-eight domestic players who played that day, the fourth-ranked Gu Zihao and the sixth-ranked Mi Yuting also advanced successfully. They defeated Chen Xian and Xie Ke respectively, and the fifth-ranked Yang Dingxin lost to Yang Kaiwen.
There are two sets in this round between the veteran world champions. After eliminating Li Xuanhao, who ranked second in the domestic rating, in the last round, Jiang Weijie lost to Dang Yifei and failed to go further. Tang Weixing is in good shape. After defeating Fan Tingyu in the last round, he defeated Chen Yaoye in this round.
In the other two contests that day, Wang Xinghao defeated Xu Jiayang, Zhao Chenyu eliminated Tan Xiao, and the top eight were all made.
This event is currently one of the highest-standard professional Go events in China. The chess players who have entered the quarter-finals are expected to continue the single-elimination process in Shenzhen in November to determine the challenger.
Brian Alvarez announced on his social networks, citing numerous sources in the company, that former NXT champion Bo Dallas should soon make his return. According to the source, the parties have already agreed on all the conditions, and the appearance of Bo Dallas on the screens is only a matter of time.
Most likely, Dallas’ return is due to the return of his sibling Bray Wyatt, who made a surprise appearance during Extreme Rules 2022 today.
Recall that Bo Dallas played his last match at the Crown Jewel 2019 show, following which he took a break to recover from an injury, and in 2021 he was completely fired from the company.