Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi Lallison. Welcome to the State of the Union Pod presented by State Farm.

That's it. It's over. You are looking at Doha Qatar, sight of the greatest World Cup final in history. We have just witnessed something that will live long and

rightfully so in the memories of all. That saw it and will hear tell of it for years to come.

My good friend David Mossy joins me for one last time here at Doha

as we look to ring in the end of a year, the end of a

World Cup and then turn into 2023. Mossy, first off your prediction came

true.

You predicted Argentina.

Argentina won.

Not without just incredible drama.

Just initial impressions before I give you mine.

Well, for 70 plus minutes,

this was an incredibly one-sided game.

Argentina were absolutely brilliant.

France were dreadful, particularly in that first half.

Scalloni made a great call starting Tim Maria,

who is such a big game player.

I think he's the most underrated player

over the last 15 years in world football.

And if he had been healthy, they might have won some of those

previous finals they lost and we wouldn't even been talking about our mess needing to get

any monkeys off his back the last couple years but then he took the Maria out for Acuna and the game

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