France v Argentina, 30 June 2018

Kick-off: 5.00pm local France v Argentina was Match 50 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Alireza Faghani (Iran) Assistant Referee 1: Reza Sokhandan (Iran) Assistant Referee 2: Mohammadreza Mansouri (Iran) Fourth Official: Julio Bascunan (Chile) Reserve AR: Christian Schiemann (Chile) VAR: Massimiliano Irrati (Italy) With this win, France had now reached the quarter-finals in consecutive World Cup finals for the first time. This was the first time that Argentina had lost a competitive international game despite scoring three or more goals. Kylian Mbappé became the first teenager to score two or more goals in a game at the World Cup finals since Brazil's Pele against Sweden in 1958. Didier Deschamps became the first manager to take charge of 80 games for France. The previous record holder was Raymond Domenech (79 games from 2004 to 2010). This was the fifth time that Argentina had conceded four or more goals in a World Cup finals game and first since a 4-0 defeat by Germany in the quarter-finals in 2010. Argentina conceded a penalty in a World Cup finals knock-out game for the first time since 1998 when England's Alan Shearer converted in a 2nd round tie in Saint-Etienne. Javier Mascherano became the first-ever player to be shown a total of seven yellow cards at the World Cup finals. Argentina had won both of the previous meetings at the World Cup finals; 1-0 in 1930 in Montevideo and 2-1 in 1978 in Buenos Aires. They had won six of the 11 prevoius encounters (lost two). France were now unbeaten in nine World Cup finals games against South American opposition (won five). Argentina in 1978 were the last nation from the CONMEBOL confederation to beat France at the World Cup finals.