The tournament was given the brilliant, crazy final it deserved
Penalties, own goals and VAR had been the main talking points of this World Cup, so it was only fitting that the final would include all three. If the 2014 final was seen as a nervy, attritional final, this was anything but as both sides really went for it at times.
It was a bizarre final in many ways, as France rarely looked like a team in enough control over Croatia to have put four goals past them, but it was the fitting conclusion to a tournament that has not been short of incident, full of drama, intrigue, controversy and fantastic goals. A brilliant tournament comes to a conclusion with a suitable finale.