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ESPN FC Daily: Messi vs. Mbappe, Argentina vs. France In World Cup Final

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On ESPN FC Daily, Kay Murray and Luis Miguel Echegaray are joined by Rob Dawson, Alex Kirkland and Dale Johnson to recap France’s win over Morocco in the World Cup semifinal to advance to the final against Lionel Messi and Arentina. The squad recap the match, break down how they see the final panning out and even toss in a little Cristiano Ronaldo talk into the mix, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yes, PNSE, Daily Camerie and LME and France are through to the World Cup final for a second

0:07.8

consecutive tournament. The road stops here for Morocco. What a story it was for them,

0:13.1

but it is France who will be facing Argentina in that World Cup final on Sunday.

0:18.8

And I feel as after that first goal went in, Luis, he kind of knew it was going to be France.

0:24.0

We hadn't seen Morocco trail of the only team that hadn't trail to the World Cup going into this

0:29.6

game and when that early goal went in, many of the people thought, okay, maybe this is going to

0:34.1

be it for France, but to be fair, they did put up a good fight, didn't they? Didn't let the

0:38.0

heads drop? Absolutely, they did not let their heads drop. And to be honest with you, you have to

0:43.5

give a lot of credit to this Moroccan side, the first African and Arab nation to make it to the semi-finals.

0:49.4

You mentioned about how they picked themselves up after that initial bad mistake early on.

0:55.2

And they kept fighting. And honestly, I think I tweeted at some point in the game, Kay, that they deserved

0:59.9

a goal. Their performance deserved something, but France, they're just so good at taking their

1:05.4

chances individually speaking. I know that we're going to talk to our team after this more about this

1:10.8

game in France, specifically, but full credit to Morocco for fighting on, but France, my goodness,

1:17.1

against a lot of odds to be honest. I'm very impressed with Diddy at the Champ, individually speaking,

1:22.0

of course, and like you said, for the first time since Brazil in 1998, they return as defending

1:28.2

champions to the final. By the way, 1998, when they won their first title. By the way, Kay, 1998,

1:34.2

when Killian and Bapé was born. Oh, yeah, Andrew and Colomuani as well, if we're going to

1:38.8

wear the old 98 tag for this one. And what a story his it. We'll get to it, but let's first welcome

1:44.5

in Rob Dawson to look back on this game. Rob is going to be with us to join us. We know it's going

1:49.1

to be France and Argentina in the final of final that many would have wanted to see even though we

1:54.1

all were behind Morocco. And on board that story of course, we were, how could you not be? But

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