On the afternoon of this Sunday, 12/18, in the city of Doha, Qatar, after an electrifying draw by 3 to 3 in normal time and in overtime, Argentina beat France on penalties by 4 to 2 and won the World Cup after a wait aged 36.
With a solid campaign in this Cup, being: 4 wins, two draws and one defeat, the strong South American team broke the unwanted fast and reaches another step in the gallery of world champions, becoming three-time champions.
In the dispute for third place, the Croatian team won and beat Morocco by 2×1. With that, the Croatians repeat the good performance of 2018 and close the World Cup with third place. As for the Moroccan selection, it also bids farewell to the World Cup with history. The African team conquers the unprecedented fourth place for the African continent.
The 365Scores application and platform, a reference when it comes to producing live statistics on sports matches, carried out a survey with 17 statistical items on the FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR 2022 and previous editions of the most important football competition.
17 surprising statistics about the FIFA World Cup
– Selection that crossed the most Croatia: 163 crosses (23.28 average per game)
– Who has scored the most headers France: 4 goals Croatia: 3 goals South Korea and Ghana: 2 goals
– Team that ran the longest distance Croatia: 912.1 km in 7 games (average 130.7 per game)
– Scorers Kylian Mbappe: 8 goals Lionel Messi: 7 goals Julián Alvarez and Olivier Giroud: 4 goals
– Most assisted player Harry Kane, Lionel Messi, Antoine Griezmann and Bruno Fernandes: 3 assists
– Player with the most shots towards the goal Lionel Messi: 19 Kylian Mbappe: 14 Julian Alvarez: 8
– Player who dribbled the most Lionel Messi: 17 Kylian Mbappe: 16 Sofiane Boufal: 10
– Goalkeeper with more saves Wojciech Szczesny: 17
– Player with the most fouls Lionel Messi: 20 Neymar: 16 Ismaila Sarr: 16
– Oldest athlete to compete in the Cup Alfredo Talavera: 40 years old – Mexico’s reserve goalkeeper
– Youngest athlete to compete in the Cup Youssoufa Moukoko: 18 years old – Germany striker
– Club that most conceded players 1st Bayern Munich: 17 players 2nd Manchester City and Barcelona: 16 players 3rd Al-Saad: 15 players 4th Manchester United: 14 players 5th Real Madrid: 13 players
– Which club had the players that scored most goals
PSG: 18 goals (8 Mbappe goals, 7 Messi goals, 2 Neymar goals and 1 Soler goal) Barcelona: 8 goals (2 goals Lewandowski and Ferran Torres, 1 goal Memphis Depay,
Frank de Jong, Gavi and Andreas Christensen)
Manchester City: 8 goals (4 Julián Alvarez, 1 goal Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden, Manuel Akanji and Jack Grealish).
– Supplier of sporting goods by number of selections
Nike: 13 national teams (Qatar, Netherlands, England, USA, Poland, Saudi Arabia, France, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Brazil, Portugal and South Korea).
Adidas: 7 national teams (Argentina, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Japan, Mexico and Wales)
Puma: 6 teams (Ghana, Morocco, Uruguay, Serbia, Switzerland and Senegal)
Hummel: 1 selection (Denmark)
Kappa: 1 selection (Tunisia)
Majid: 1 selection (Iran)
Marathon: 1 selection (Ecuador)
New Balance: 1 selection (Costa Rica)
One All Sports: 1 selection (Cameroon)
Previous editions
The best attacks
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
France – 16 goals scored Argentina – 15 goals scored England – 13 goals scored
Belgium – 16 goals scored
France and Croatia – 14 goals scored
England – 12 goals scored
FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014
Germany – 18 goals scored
Netherlands – 15 goals scored
Colombia – 12 goals scored
FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010
Germany – 16 goals scored
Netherlands – 12 goals scored
Uruguay – 11 goals scored
FIFA World Cup Germany 2006
Germany – 14 goals scored
Italy – 12 goals scored
Argentina – 11 goals scored
FIFA World Cup Korea and Japan 2002
Brazil – 18 goals scored
Germany – 14 goals scored
Spain – 10 goals scored
The best defenses
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
Tunisia – 1 goal conceded
Belgium and Uruguay – 2 goals conceded
Morocco, Brazil, Spain, Ecuador, Mexico and Denmark – 3 goals conceded
FIFA World Cup Russia 2018
Denmark, Iran and Peru – 2 goals conceded
Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia and South Korea – 3 goals conceded
Sweden, Serbia, Nigeria, Germany, Morocco, Senegal and Switzerland – 4 goals conceded
FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014
Costa Rica – 2 goals conceded
France, Belgium, Mexico, Italy, Russia and Ecuador – 3 goals conceded
Netherlands, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Bosnia – Herzegovina, Iran and England – 4 goals
FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010
Portugal and Switzerland – 1 goal conceded
Spain, Paraguay, Japan, New Zealand and Algeria – 2 goals conceded
Ivory Coast, Honduras, Slovenia and Serbia – 3 goals conceded
FIFA World Cup Germany 2006
Switzerland – 0 goals conceded
Italy, England, Brazil, Netherlands, Angola and Paraguay – 2 goals conceded
France, Argentina and Croatia – 3 goals conceded
FIFA World Cup Korea and Japan 2002
Argentina – 2 goals conceded
Germany, England, Ireland, Japan, Croatia, Nigeria, Cameroon and France – 3 goals conceded
Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Ecuador and Russia – 4 goals conceded
The worst attacks
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
Qatar, Tunisia, Wales, Belgium and Denmark – 1 goal scored
Uruguay, Mexico and Canada – 2 goals scored
United States, Poland, Costa Rica and Saudi Arabia – 3 goals scored
Australia, Iran, Ecuador and Cameroon – 4 goals scored
FIFA World Cup Russia 2018
Poland, Morocco, Iceland, Panama, Costa Rica, Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Germany, Serbia and Egypt – 2 goals scored
Mexico, Denmark, South Korea and Nigeria – 3 goals scored
Senegal – 4 goals scored
FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014
Cameroon, Honduras and Iran – 1 goal scored
Italy, England, Russia and Japan – 2 goals scored
Nigéria, Grécia, Equador, Coréia do Sul e Austrália – 3 gols marcados
FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010
Honduras and Algeria – 0 goals
North Korea, France and Switzerland – 1 goal scored
New Zealand, Greece, Serbia and Cameroon – 2 goals scored
FIFA World Cup Germany 2006
Trinidad and Tobago – 0 goals scored
Togo and Angola – 1 goal scored
Poland, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro, Iran, United States, Japan and Croatia – 2 goals scored
FIFA World Cup Korea and Japan 2002
China, Saudi Arabia and France – 0 goals scored
Nigeria and Tunisia – 1 goal scored
Cameroon, Slovenia, Croatia, Ecuador and Argentina – 2 goals scored
Check out all of Lionel Messi’s World Cup matches
FIFA World Cup Germany 2006
16/06/2006, Argentina 6 X 0 Serbia and Montenegro (Messi scored 1 goal)
21/06/2006, Argentina 0 v Netherlands (Messi scored no goals)
24/06/2006, Argentina 2 x 1 Mexico (Messi scored no goals)
FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010
12/06/2010, Argentina 1 x 0 Nigeria (Messi scored no goals)
06/17/2010, Argentina 4 x 1 South Korea (Messi did not score)
22/06/2010, Argentina 2-0 Greece (Messi scored no goals)
27/06/2010, Argentina 3- Mexico 1 (Messi scored no goals)
3/7/2010, Argentina 0 x 4 Germany (Messi scored no goals)
FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014
16/06/2014 Argentina 2 x 1 Bosnia (Messi scored 1 goal)
21/06/2014, Argentina 1 x 0 Iran (Messi scored 1 goal)
25/06/2014, Argentina 3 x 2 Nigeria (Messi scored 2 goals)
7/1/2014, Argentina 1-0 Switzerland (Messi scored no goals)
5/07/2014, Argentina 1-0 Belgium (Messi scored no goals)
7/9/2014, Argentina 0-0 Netherlands (Messi scored no goals)
7/13/2014, Argentina 0 x 1 Germany (Messi scored no goals)
FIFA World Cup Russia 2018
16/06/2018, Argentina 1-1 Iceland (Messi scored no goals)
21/06/2018, Argentina 0 x 3 Croatia (Messi scored no goals)
26/06/2018, Argentina 2 x 1 Nigeria (Messi scored 1 goal)
30/06/2018, Argentina 3 x 4 France (Messi scored no goals)
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
11/22/2022, Argentina 1 x 2 Saudi Arabia (Messi scored 1 goal)
26/11/2002, Argentina 2 x 0 Mexico (Messi scored 1 goal)
11/30/2022, Argentina 2-0 Poland (Messi scored no goals)
3/12/2022, Argentina 2 x 1 Australia (Messi scored 1 goal)
12/9/2022, Argentina 2 v 2 Netherlands 2 (Messi scored 1 goal)
12/13/2022 Argentina 3 x 0 Croatia (Messi scored 1 goal)
12/18/2022 Argentina 3 x 3 France (Messi scored 2 goals)
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