#广场预测世界杯赢40000U Don’t forget: tomorrow’s final is actually a Spanish-language derby.

England and France combined for 10 goals in an end-of-season third-place match where both sides took what they needed. England achieved their best World Cup performance since 1966 and for the first time ever stood on the podium. Mbappé is highly likely to win the Golden Boot at this World Cup, while Olise can take the assist title.
There are reports that Olise has been looking forward to joining Real Madrid—so, in this match, plus the stoppage-time moment from Bellingham, which everyone considers to be the best goal of this World Cup, it’s really telling us that this is also a victory for Real Madrid!
Because in the Spanish lineup that will take the field in tomorrow’s final, there is not a single Real Madrid player. Most of its core comes from Spanish Catalonia. Like Lamine Yamal, Pedro, Cucurellа, Cubarsí, and Olmo. Meanwhile on the Argentina side, quite a few—like Álvarez and Almada—are from Atlético Madrid. And don’t forget: Argentina’s official language is Spanish.
So you can also treat this World Cup final as a Spanish-language derby (and Spanish is a main focus of foreign-language elective classes in U.S. elementary and secondary schools), or as a clash between Catalonia and non-Catalonia, or even between Barcelona and Madrid! But there’s nothing for the Bernabéu here!
Add the fact that Messi was also developed by Barça—the pre-match photo of him bathing baby Yamal makes this sense of lineage even deeper. Catalonia, Barça, and all the signs point to the scales of victory tipping toward Spain!
What most people want, perhaps, is to see Messi win the World Cup again—one more time as champion—and even score again early tomorrow morning to also take the Golden Boot. Then his status in football would surpass Maradona. But honestly, Messi himself may not even think that. Remember the 2010 South Africa World Cup: back then, the head coach of the Argentina team was Maradona, and Messi was taking formal command for the first time. In the quarterfinals, they were swept aside by Germany. After the match, someone even fabricated a news story that circulated widely at home, saying Messi couldn’t sleep late into the night and, alone, knocked on Maradona’s door, cried in his arms for an entire night. They were both giants of two different eras. Messi doesn’t carry as many of Maradona’s entanglements of love, hate, and nation as well as all those stories—he only has the pure legend of leading Barça to greatness, and leading Argentina to World Cup glory after repeatedly falling short.
So tomorrow’s Spanish-language derby early tomorrow morning will definitely be intense. Both sides will definitely give everything they’ve got—Yamal will hold back all his energy to score at the MetLife Stadium in New York, and Messi will do everything in his own way to help Argentina win, maybe even taking it into extra time, possibly even reaching a penalty shootout—but it definitely won’t be like today, with 10 goals.

Our prediction: Spain vs Argentina 1:0 1:1 (after extra time) 2:1