British media personality, Piers Morgan, has predicted that Lionel Messi’s Argentina will lose to France on Sunday.
Argentina is facing Kylian Mbappe’s team on Sunday for the FIFA World Cup final in Qatar.
Taking to Twitter, Piers Morgan said: “PREDICTION: France will beat Argentina 3-1 to win the World Cup. Mbappe will score twice, Griezmann will be MoM and Messi will cry.”
His prediction didn’t sit well with a Nigerian Twitter commentator, Daniel Regha who called him out on it.
Regha said with or without winning the World Cup title, Messi remains the greatest of his generation & no player can lace his boots.
“Argentina winning or losing the 2022 World Cup is a probability cos France also plays a good game; But wishing Argentina will lose so u can mock Messi is very pathetic. Even without the World Cup trophy Messi remains the greatest of his generation & no player can lace his boots,” he said.
It is now or never for Lionel Messi. The Argentina superstar’s once-in-a-generation career will be defined — for many — by whether he leads his country to the World Cup title on Sunday.
Can he finally, at the age of 35, win soccer’s biggest prize to secure his place alongside Pelé and Diego Maradona in the pantheon of the game’s greatest ever players?
Standing in his way is France, the defending champion, and Kylian Mbappé, the player best positioned to take over from Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as soccer’s marquee name.
That’s if he hasn’t already.
Mbappé also is standing on the cusp of history heading into the match at the 80,000-seat Lusail Stadium, a title decider that is filled with storylines.
According to AFP, the 23-year-old France forward is looking to emulate Pelé by being a champion at his first two World Cups and set up the prospect of a third title, a feat only ever achieved by the Brazil great who has been hospitalized during this year’s tournament because of a respiratory infection.
Mbappé was 19 when he led France to its second World Cup title in 2018, becoming the youngest scorer in a final since a 17-year-old Pelé did so in 1958. While Pelé ended up being a peripheral figure in Brazil’s 1962 triumph — he didn’t play in the knockout stage because of injury — Mbappé has been France’s go-to player in the team’s bid to repeat the feat.
Indeed, Mbappé enters the final tied as the tournament’s leading scorer with five goals. The player alongside him? Messi, of course.