Real Madrid Breakout Star Openly Disagrees With Antoine Griezmann Calling Lionel Messi the Best in the World: Here’s Why

France will be facing Argentina in one of the most anticipated matches of the year. This might be on the list of top matches of the Decade. There are many reasons behind the enormous anticipation of this match, like the last world cup of Lionel Messi, the last chance for Messi to win prestige, and a chance for France to create history by winning back-to-back world cups.

There is a feud among players and fans on who is a better soccer player, Lionel Messi or Kylian Mbappe. We have come a long way from Ronaldo vs Messi. While this is still the most famous battle, Messi vs Mbappe recently got the Twitter soccer community in shambles.

Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe are joint top scorers of the tournament with 5 goals. Next to Julian Alvarez and Olivier Giroud, who have 4 goals to their name. However, Messi is leading in total contributions with 3 assists while Mbappe has 2 assists.

France is divided on Kylian Mbappe vs Lionel Messi

Antoine Griezmann had praised his former Barca teammate Lionel Messi, saying, “On the pitch, he’s a super easy player to play with. You send him a melon, he turns it into caviar! We don’t have that pressure to miss a pass with him.”

However, his teammate Aurelien Tchouameni disagreed with his French teammate. He said, “Griezmann said Messi is the Best Player in the World? For me it’s Kylian.. for me, for me it’s Mbappe and I want him to prove that in the next game.”

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Twitter had mixed reactions to this statement. Overall, this statement feels more like a mind game before the finals.

Journey of both teams to the finals

Argentina started this tournament with a loss against Saudi Arabia, which shocked the entire world. Argentina was among some of the potential winners of the tournament. Although they picked up pace nicely and topped the group after winning the next matches. Argentina won a group of 16 match against Australia and then the quarterfinals against the Netherlands in the penalty shootout. They faced Croatia in the semifinals and dismantled them by winning 3-0.

France went undefeated in the first two group stages but surprisingly loosing against Tunisia. They easily won the round of 16 match against Poland and then the quarterfinals against England. They faced Morocco in the semifinals and easily won by 2-0.

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Who will win this match is a very close prediction, but soccer is winning for sure.