Spain evolved into the competition's most complete team. And after knocking out France, they refused to get dragged into Argentina's dark arts in the final. | Football News

If Lionel Messi and Argentina are to clinch back-to-back World Cup titles on Sunday, they will have to find a way past one of the meanest defences in tournament history.

Scotland's shock victory in 2023 offered an unlikely blueprint for the reigning European champions

Argentina love a late goal and have been hugely reliant on Messi, while Spain are an excellent cohesive unit who have only conceded once

Argentina, Spain show what happens when you stick to your gameplan

Lionel Messi rarely loses. Spain never loses. That’s been how things have worked in recent years, anyway.

Lionel Messi and Argentina are on the brink of back-to-back titles, while Spain can upgrade from European champions to add a second star in what, Miguel Delaney argues, is a match…

Spain have won their second FIFA World Cup title after Ferran Torres struck a late extra-time winner to break Argentina’s resistance in a dramatic final. Lionel Messi’s 10-man…

Ferran Torres strikes in extra-time in a match only one team tried to win

A performance of remarkable control—if not clinical edge—saw Spain win its second men’s World Cup title.

Ferran Torres scored an extra-time winner as Spain defeated holders Argentina 1-0 to win the World Cup on Sunday and shatter Lionel Messi's dreams of a triumphant farewell to…

Spain have won their second men’s World Cup after Ferran Torres’s extra-time strike beat a battling Argentina side who had Enzo Fernández sent off

Epic tournament reduced to a cauldron and concludes as something claustrophobic and almost unbearable

The 39-year-old maestro Lionel Messi, almost certainly playing in his final World Cup game, was reduced to irrelevance as Spain took control early on against an Argentina team who…

Spain 1-0 AET Argentina: Ferran Torres finally buried the 10 men of Argentina in extra-time after a turgid display from Lionel Messi and his teammates in New York

Argentina's defeat brought the curtain down on one of the greatest World Cup careers the sport has ever witnessed. | Football News

Spain 1-0 Argentina (after extra time): A team with the greatest footballer ever should not be this dull, this focused on delaying and disrupting, writes Richard Jolly from the…

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La Roja dethroned La Albiceleste to win its second-ever World Cup title.

For years, Spanish football has been synonymous with control - of the ball, of space, of tempo. On Sunday night at New York New Jersey Stadium, Spain produced perhaps the ultimate…

In the World Cup final, Spain stood for Europe, the industrial heart of modern soccer, while Argentina, a great but flawed team, was fuelled by myth.