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The 20 best goals of the World Cup, ranked

From Ronaldo to Messi to Mbappé to Pogba, ranking the best goals of the 2018 World Cup.

The 2018 World Cup was one of the most exciting in a long, long time, and it was chalk-full of fantastic goals. From Russia’s 5-0 thrashing of Saudi Arabia in the World Cup’s opening match to France’s thrilling 4-2 triumph over Croatia in the final, hardly a matchday went by without jaws being dropped.

In all, 169 goals were scored in the tournament — not quite the record of 171 set in 1998 in France and tied in 2014 in Brazil, but close. Which goals stood out from the pack? There’s a lot of hard choices to be made, but with both quality and the moment considered, here’s our 20 best goals of the tournament.

20. Kylian Mbappe says goodnight to Argentina

Mbappé AGAIN! The 19-year-old gets his second of the game to put France up 4-2. pic.twitter.com/1mY2fN2MBc

— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 30, 2018

We’ll take a look at the goal that exposed Argentina and probably broke their spirit later on, but this is the goal that actually knocked them out of the tournament, the fourth France goal in what wound up as a 4-3 win. And wow, what an audacious moment for Kylian Mbappe. It was the 19 year old’s second goal of the day and a scintillating display of his skillset — the run, the positioning, the finish, everything. The full buildup to the goal was absolutely gorgeous as well; don’t overlook just how important Antoine Griezmann was to the creation of this goal, and for so many of France’s best moments throughout their run to the World Cup title.

19. Shaqiri runs away from Serbia

#MundialTelemundo ¡Héroe sobre la hora! @XS_11official le está dando el triunfo a #SUI sobre #SRB pic.twitter.com/3MCmLToIDe

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 22, 2018

No one so squat and brawny should be this fast, but Xherdan Shaqiri sure is. His club career may not have gone according to plan, but man does he consistently come up huge in moments like this, especially when he plays for Switzerland. This run on the ball absolutely gutted Serbia’s defense, and he made absolutely no mistakes in his finish. He just signed with Liverpool to play what will likely be mostly a rotation role and come off the bench, and Jurgen Klopp and Reds fans alike will be hoping that he brings a lot of that kind of fire to Anfield.

18. Angel Di Maria has still got it

#MundialTelemundo Di María con un golazo empata el marcador y así lo narró @AndresCantorGOL #FRA 1-1 #ARG pic.twitter.com/cidC1l7tzI

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 30, 2018

You could be forgiven for having forgotten about Angel Di Maria. His time at Paris Saint-Germain has been riddled with injuries and poor form, and even when he’s healthy and playing well he’s often lost in the shadows of players like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Neymar, Kylian Mbappe, and Edinson Cavani. But he’s still got that knack for the big moment and consistently comes up big when his team needs that extra burst of momentum. So it was here with Argentina trailing France early in their round of 16 match, and Di Maria found a perfect pocket of space and hit it so cleanly and perfectly that you just had to stand up and applaud it, tailing it away from Huge Lloris so effectively that the goalkeeper probably shouldn’t have even bothered to try and save it. Bra-freaking-vo, Di Maria. Take a bow.

17. Granit Xhaka nearly decapitates Branislav Ivanovic

#MundialTelemundo ¡Golazo! Granit Xhaka pone en la pelea a #SUI y le da el empate ante #SRB . Así lo narró @sadovnik1965 pic.twitter.com/rGLDcOmTRK

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 22, 2018

This was an absolute bomb, and if Ivanovic hadn’t ducked out of the way he might actually be dead, Xhaka hit it so hard. Que golazo, indeed.

16. Toni Kroos is superhuman

.@ToniKroos saves it for Germany in stoppage time. That is spectacular! Live World Cup coverage here: https://t.co/wa6L7Ey1Jp pic.twitter.com/k0u3c6YyJA

— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) June 23, 2018

With Germany needing a goal to break the tie against Sweden in their second group stage match and to have a realistic chance to advance to the knockout rounds — they would ultimately fail, but no one knew that would be the case at this particular moment — Kroos set up an audacious dummy free kick routine, tapping the ball up, getting it back, and uncorking a shot from just inside the box that was placed with absolute perfection. Oh yeah, and it came four and a half minutes into an announced five minutes of stoppage time, putting immense pressure on his shoulders. The list of players who could come up big in that moment can probably be counted on one hand, and Toni Kroos is one of them.

15. Luka Modric destroys Argentina

Luka Modric called game. pic.twitter.com/d5mD32eA1d

— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 21, 2018

This was all she wrote for Argentina in the tournament. Sure, it was just the second match of the group stage, and Argentina ultimately bowed out in the round of 16 in an epic game against France — but this goal from Luka Modric is what broke their spirit and exposed their weaknesses for the world to see. It was a phenomenal strike, and both the goal and his dominating performance throughout the match was a great microcosm of just how Modric ultimately lead Croatia to the World Cup final and won himself the Golden Ball award as the tournament’s best player.

14. Ahmed Musa is ballsy and so good

#MundialTelemundo ¡Alegría en #ARG! Anota @Ahmedmusa718 para el 1-0 de #NGA sobre #ISL en la voz de @ErasmoProvenza pic.twitter.com/T9TrnMgemr

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 22, 2018

Musa’s name isn’t one often talked about these days in the world of football. He’s always been the other attacker on his teams, but in this tournament, he was the guy for Nigeria, and this goal showed just how good he can be when his confidence is up. No one in their right mind takes that touch in that space and takes that finish, but Musa did it without breaking a sweat. He may never be regarded as an elite player in the sport, but on his day he can be an incredible asset for just about any team around.

13. Christian Eriksen’s half-volley screamer against Australia

#MundialTelemundo REVIVE el gol de #DEN apenas al 6' cuando @ChrisEriksen8 abre el marcador con un remate de zurda dentro del área. pic.twitter.com/foIJHjXJsW

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 21, 2018

Everything about this goal is just so impressive. Denmark did a great job of keeping the play alive, taking an attack that was threatening to break down and just keeping the ball moving to find any opening possible. Striker Nicolai Jorgensen did a great job of getting on the ball under pressure while recognizing that Christian Eriksen was flying up in support, then quickly putting the ball right in his path with room to work with. Eriksen didn’t miss a beat, striking it on the half-volley and nearly putting the ball through the back of the net, not just into it.

12. Coutinho scored a worldy against Switzerland

#MundialTelemundo Así narró @sadovnik1965 el gol de @Phil_Coutinho que tiene al frente a #BRA sobre #SUI pic.twitter.com/RMdMZHDyia

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 17, 2018

This goal is just ridiculous. To hit the ball that well through that much traffic and still place it so perfectly is hilariously difficult, but Philippe Coutinho made it look easy. Coutinho made a lot of things look easy during this tournament, so much so that it’s not unreasonable to think that he, not Neymar, drove a lot of Brazil’s successes in this World Cup. Once Barcelona figure out how to get him and Lionel Messi to work together at a high level — look out, Europe.

11. Ivan Perisic in the World Cup final

#MundialTelemundo Perisic apareció y con un golazo empata el marcador #FRA 1-1 #CRO pic.twitter.com/PYUihBiDXJ

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) July 15, 2018

This is the first goal from the World Cup final on this list, but it will not be the last. Perisic hit this beauty of a goal to level the score at 1-1 in the first half, a massively important goal to keep his country in the match but also a wildly impressive team effort. The way Croatian players kept moving the ball around, keeping the play alive to try and find someone with a shot, was fantastic, and Perisic’s finish was inch-perfect to keep Hugo Lloris from being able to get to it.

10. Denis Cheryshev’s outrageous finish

#MundialTelemundo Así marcó @Cheryshev el golazo del día y así lo gritó @AndresCantorGOL pic.twitter.com/WWrBy57de0

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 14, 2018

Denis Cheryshev broke out in a big way during this World Cup, and the tournament’s opening match was a real statement for him. Forced into a more prominent playmaking role by Alan Dzagoev’s very early injury in the match, Cheryshev stepped up and excelled, a performance capped off by a captivatingly audacious goal. His ball control was absolute perfection in that moment, and his extra half-touch to turn the ball onto his much-preferred left foot for a side-footed finish instead of taking the arguably easier right-footed shot was equal parts astounding and hilariously joyful. It was a great moment at the end of a wild match, and it really helped establish Cheryshev and Russia as a real threat all tournament long.

9. Benjamin Pavard has one of the hits of the tournament

This is poetry. pic.twitter.com/Yb2prwV1er

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 30, 2018

There is hitting a ball pure, and then there is hitting a ball pure. France right back Benjamin Pavard his this ball pure against Argentina.

8. Belgium’s stunning end-to-end goal to sink Japan

#MundialTelemundo @NChadli le da la vuelta al marcador y pone a #BEL en cuartos de final. pic.twitter.com/2XWtpYJP5Q

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) July 2, 2018

Everyone was certain that Belgium and Japan’s round of 16 match was going to extra time, if not to penalties. Japan had gone up 2-0, Belgium scratched back to 2-2, and as the final moments of regulation approached, both teams looked gassed.

Turned out, Belgium were just waiting.

From Thibaut Courtois’ initial delivery to the moment Nacer Chadli hammered the ball into the back of the net, everything about this Belgium attack was pure, frenetic determination. From De Bruyne’s drive up the pitch with the ball, to Romelu Lukaku’s perfect run to open the space, to Thomas Meunier making perhaps the play of his life to assist the goal, everything here was down to Belgium’s drive to prove a point, to prove that they belong among the best of the best. That goal was a big, big moment for every Belgium player on the pitch, and stands out as one of the best, and most important goals of the World Cup.

7. Cristiano Ronaldo’s game-tying free kick

#MundialTelemundo ¡Un pedazo de gol! Así narra @AndresCantorGOL el "Hat-trick" de @Cristiano para el empate de #POR sobre #ESP pic.twitter.com/FuJVNrzL2n

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 15, 2018

Cristiano Ronaldo has a long and storied career, full of high-quality goals, both from open play and from free kicks. While some of his open-play goals are certainly better than this one, there’s not many free kicks that Ronaldo has hit that sweetly and placed that well. That it was a crucially-timed equalizer to give Portugal a huge point and take two away from Spain in the group stage only make the moment all the bigger, and the goal all the more impressive to watch over and over again.

6. Neymar and Willian shred Mexico’s defense

#MundialTelemundo Gran jugada de @willianborges88 y así cantó @andrescantorGOL la anotaación de @NeymarJr #BRA 1-0 #MEX pic.twitter.com/knehysWZy1

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) July 2, 2018

This is an absolute humiliation of a Mexico defense that had been quite solid during the World Cup group stage, but in this match looked like the roughshod unit that looked frighteningly poor in their warmup friendlies. Neymar and Willian just obliterated the entire group in a matter of seconds with a series of smart, smart decisions that left El Tri having no clue where

5. Paul Pogba uncorks a jaw-dropping pass that creates his own goal

#MundialTelemundo ¿Gol de campeonato? @paulpogba aumenta la ventaja y #FRA pone una mano sobre la Copa del Mundo. pic.twitter.com/JSV2gEsNmB

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) July 15, 2018

I would take you through my whole thought process on this ridiculous pass from Pogba and the goal it created, but Nate Scott already waxed poetic with the exact same line of thought.

4. Kevin De Bruyne breaks Brazil’s back

#MundialTelemundo ¿Definitivo? Zapatazo de @DeBruyneKev y #BEL aumenta la ventaja sobre #BRA . Así lo narró @AndresCantorGOL pic.twitter.com/kcVyHpOwRP

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) July 6, 2018

This was something of a paradigm-shifting goal in the World Cup. Belgium had been impressive, but with Brazil being Brazil and one of the favorites remaining in the tournament at the time, no one was quite sure if “impressive” would be enough to knock Brazil out. Enter Kevin De Bruyne, who capitalized on Romelu Lukaku’s incredible run with as pure a strike as you’ll see to put Belgium up 2-0 and to effectively knock out Brazil right then and there. That was the moment Belgium really opened people’s eyes as not just a team with potential, but as a team that represented a very real threat in the tournament.

3. Dries Mertens’ stunning volley

#MundialTelemundo En voz de @CopanAlvarez ¡Así fue el gol de #BEL! @dries_mertens14 nos regala este hermoso gol que abre el marcador, imposible de despejar para el portero de #PAN @JaimePenedo26 pic.twitter.com/3iz7jkf3FL

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 18, 2018

This didn’t wind up being a massively important goal like many of these other top goals in the list are, but this volley is ridiculous. It’s a shot few strikers would even try, much less hit with such cool and calm perfection like Mertens did. Anyone who watches Napoli much knows that this kind of goal is well within his wheelhouse, but now the whole world knows just how amazing he can be when his confidence is high.

2. Kylian Mbappe stuns in the final

Kylian Mbappé gets in on the action! The 19-year-old becomes the first teenager to score in a FIFA World Cup final since Pelé. pic.twitter.com/4fqjCSWJL0

— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 15, 2018

Kylian Mbappe was already a fantastic player coming into the World Cup. He was arguably the best young attacker on the planet, and deservedly came into the World Cup as the focal point of France’s attack. Then at just 19 years old he stepped up and proved to be one of the best players in the entire tournament, possibly even launching himself as one of the next major superstars in the game.

But enough about Mbappe — how about this goal? The fourth and final goal from France in the final, and the one that finally broke Croatia’s back. The poise and presence that Mbappe had in the moment goes far beyong his 19 years, and he lasered in a perfect finish to join Pele as now the only two teenagers to ever score in a World Cup final. That’s some heady company to be in, but based on his history, Mbappe will handle it just fine.

1. Lionel Messi makes everyone scream

#MundialTelemundo ¡Golazo! de #Messi y #ARG ya lo gana sobre #NGA . Así lo narra @AndresCantorGOL pic.twitter.com/U7qdX3We9C

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 26, 2018

My god. Everything about this goal is just so perfect. The manic run from Messi to get to where he needed to go, after using just a little bit of a floating drift to lull the defender to sleep. The pass from Ever Banega, showing enough chemistry with Messi to know exactly where his teammate would be and placing his pass perfectly from more than 40 yards away. The nigh-impossible control from Messi in stride while going at full speed to get the ball exactly where he wanted it. The perfectly-placed finish, despite being on his his weak foot and at a weird angle.

It was a goal that woke Argentina up at a crucial moment in the tournament, and while they ultimately didn’t get much farther, without this goal, they may not have even had the wherewithal to get out of the group stage at all. And oh yeah, it was an incredible goal even without the importance of it.

Honorable Mention: Cavani and Suarez playing a 100-yard-long bit of give-and-go to create a goal from nothing.

#MundialTelemundo @ECavaniOfficial letal en el área, se desmarca y de cabeza vence a @Rui_Patricio1 y así lo cantó @sadovnik1965 #URU 1-0 #POR pic.twitter.com/z9915w7M0e

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 30, 2018

We forgot this one at first, but let’s remember Edinson Cavani and Luis Suarez playing a little give-and-go across the entire width of the field to create their first goal against Portugal.

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The World Cup's Most Brilliant Player Can Dominate Without Scoring

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The World Cup's Most Brilliant Player Can Dominate Without Scoring

If you take one lesson from the 2018 World Cup in Russia, let it be one that the striker who wears No. 9 for Belgium’s national team has been trying to teach soccer fans for years now.

Romelu Lukaku is brilliant.

Lukaku started his second World Cup appearance with two goals in Belgium’s 3-0 win over Panama; he bagged two more against Tunisia in Belgium’s second match of the group stage. He’s the tournament’s second-leading scorer and could still win its Golden Boot.

But his true brilliance as a footballer has emerged in the knockout stages, as Lukaku has steered Belgium to its first World Cup semifinal appearance since 1986 without finding the back of the net a single time. Lukaku and Belgium will take on France on Tuesday, with the Belgians’ first-ever trip to a World Cup final on the line.

Here is the Belgian striker ― in red, at the bottom left of the screen when this GIF starts ― making a slaloming run that leads to Belgium’s game-winning goal in its round of 16 match against Japan. It’s a move that drags two defenders out of the play completely, that opens space for the two passes necessary to set up the goal, that includes Lukaku’s daring dummy, when he passes up a shot, steps over a pass and allows the ball to run through to a wide-open Nacer Chadli. At no point in this sequence does he touch the ball.

Watch Lukaku’s run. Drags the defender inside to create space for Meunier and then dummies it brilliantly for Chadli. Brilliant work. pic.twitter.com/RKseQLdX7q

— Jake. (@YedIin) July 2, 2018

Here is Lukaku, a few days later, turning the feet of Brazil’s Fernandinho ― one of the world’s better defensive midfielders ― into clay with a simple hip fake, then playing an inch-perfect pass to Kevin de Bruyne just as Paulinho slides in to try to break up Lukaku’s one-man counterattack. Four seconds later, Belgium had a 2-0 lead that it would use to knock the pre-tournament favorites out of the World Cup.

#MundialTelemundo ¿Definitivo? Zapatazo de @DeBruyneKev y #BEL aumenta la ventaja sobre #BRA . Así lo narró 🎙 @AndresCantorGOL pic.twitter.com/kcVyHpOwRP

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) July 6, 2018

In the coded language so often used to discuss sports, words like “brilliant” are typically reserved for players like de Bruyne and Eden Hazard, another of Lukaku’s Belgian teammates. They are the sort of playmaking midfielders who dazzle fans and opponents alike with crafty dribbling and stylish play, or a sort of cerebral approach to the game that suggests they make up for what they lack in brawn with smarts and skills developed through long hours on the training grounds. They are dangerous not because of their overwhelming physiques but because of their guile and their craft. They are smart and they are brilliant, descriptors that in soccer, as in so many other sports, often means that they are white.

Contrast that with a player like Lukaku, the black Belgian son of Congolese immigrants whose quality is usually attributed to his sheer size and athleticism. At 6 feet, 3 inches and a shade north of 200 pounds, Lukaku is a giant by soccer standards. His qualities are natural, they say, the result of born athleticism rather than a studious approach to the game. To borrow one of soccer’s worst cliches, reserved almost exclusively for black soccer players and all-black soccer teams, Romelu Lukaku supposedly beats his opponents not with his brain but with his “pace and power.”

In England, where Lukaku has played his club soccer since moving from the Belgian league to Chelsea in 2011, that pace and power must explain his success, because for English pundits the possibility that intelligence and brilliance are part of the equation has never seemed possible. His club move from Everton to Manchester United last summer was panned by opposing managers and pundits who relied on the same old stereotypes.

Lukaku lacked “cleverness,” according to longtime Premier League manager Alan Pardew. He was “not bright enough to play with Eden Hazard and Cesc Fabregas” at Chelsea, former player Paul Merson claimed. “I would always prefer an intelligent player in my team,” a European journalist said of Lukaku in criticizing United’s new signing. “Even if he doesn’t score as many goals, even if he doesn’t do whatever he needs to.”

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Lukaku hasn’t yet scored in this World Cup’s knockout stage, but he’s changed both of Belgium’s matches anyway.

But watch those attacking moves again. Lukaku’s speed and size mean something, of course, but not nearly as much as his smarts and his skills. It is not natural athleticism that gives him the ability to see how a play might unfold 40 yards early and then make the runs necessary to force that play to unfold exactly the way he envisioned. It is not strength that allows him to turn one of the world’s best defensive mids inside-out and then follow that with a sublime pass that he makes look routine. That is the work of a player for whom speed and athleticism are components of his game, not the definitive qualities of it.

Lukaku’s brilliance is not relegated to the pitch. While his critics are capable of speaking primarily in their well-worn codes, the Belgian talisman is himself fluent in at least six languages ― or five more than the number of wins Alan Pardew racked up while managing in the Premier League this season.

Here he is, between those knockout stage matches, answering a question from a reporter in nearly perfect Portuguese:

Lukaku defende Neymar: ‘Ele não é ator e será o melhor do mundo’. https://t.co/NM51eJkrAP pic.twitter.com/0QczPIDofA

— Jornal O Globo (@JornalOGlobo) July 5, 2018

During the same press conference, Lukaku answered questions in Spanish, Dutch and French, too. He did an English-language interview with The Players Tribune before the World Cup. Lukaku also speaks the Congolese language of his parents and can reportedly understand German. He picked up Portuguese from a teammate during his short spell at Chelsea, as he explained after answering yet another question in the language following Belgium’s win over Brazil.

As for that match, it was Lukaku who laid out Belgium’s counterattacking game plan for de Bruyne and Hazard, because his previous time under manager Roberto Martinez gave him the intimate understanding of Martinez’s tactical plan for scuttling Brazil. Lukaku wasn’t just an integral player, he was a second manager on the pitch ― a quality Martinez recognized in his striker when he managed Lukaku at Everton.

“The first time I spoke with him I realized that he was not a typical center forward, power whatever,” Martinez said of Lukaku in 2013. “He is a thinker. He is a really knowledgeable man … and is someone who looks at games in a very different way. He is like a manager in the way that he looks at movement. He speaks about games that he’s seen, different moves ― not the normal conversation that you would have with an ordinary 20-year-old footballer, believe me.”

Lukaku’s size and strength have been major parts of his story since he was young: As a youth player, he often had to show his ID to skeptical parents who couldn’t believe he was the same age as their comparably diminutive sons. But Lukaku did not become one of only five players in Premier League history to score 50 goals before his 23rd birthday on sheer size and athleticism alone, and he has not dominated this World Cup that way either. To reduce his game, now, to something as banal as “pace and power” (as some still want to do) is to miss so much of what makes Lukaku one of the world’s most captivating players, to fail to appreciate what has made Romelu Lukaku one of this World Cup’s most brilliant players.

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6 players who can win the World Cup Golden Ball, and 4 players who deserve more consideration

Someone needs to have a big semifinal.

Some years, it’s clear who’s going to win the Golden Ball as the top player at the World Cup. Other years, like this one, we head into the semifinal with the award looking like it could go to one of a dozen different players.

Here are the players currently in serious contention to be named the best player at this tournament.

The current favorite: Kevin De Bruyne

It’s difficult to pick out a clear Golden Ball favorite at the moment, but De Bruyne ticks all the boxes. Usually, the Golden Ball winner is an attack-minded player. He’s usually a well-known player coming off a good club season. He’s usually the centerpiece of his team’s attack. And, of course, he usually has some sick highlights.

Like this goal!

#MundialTelemundo ¿Definitivo? Zapatazo de @DeBruyneKev y #BEL aumenta la ventaja sobre #BRA . Así lo narró @AndresCantorGOL pic.twitter.com/kcVyHpOwRP

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) July 6, 2018

And this assist!

#MundialTelemundo En voz de @CopanAlvarez ¡Así fue el segundo gol de #BEL! Gran remate de cabeza por parte de @RomeluLukaku9 quien aparece dentro del área tras un mágico pase de @DeBruyneKev pic.twitter.com/9B06SJDxsF

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 18, 2018

Of all of the players currently in the running for the Golden Ball, De Bruyne has the sickest highlights to go along with consistently good play in all of Belgium’s games that mattered. If none of the other candidates goes off in the next two games and Belgium wins the World Cup, De Bruyne is going to be the default selection.

Win the World Cup and the Golden Ball is yours: Luka Modric

Unlike De Bruyne and all of the other contenders, Luka Modrić is not competing with anyone on his own team for the Golden Ball. He’s the unquestioned star and leader of Croatia, and because of that, he’s the only player who’s all but guaranteed to win the award if his team wins the tournament.

Because Modric isn’t a particularly flashy player, his chances of capturing the award if Croatia doesn’t win the tournament is slim. But it certainly helps that he did this.

#MundialTelemundo ¡Golazo de #CRO! en los pies de @lukamodric10 para sentenciar a la #ARG REVIVE el gol acá... pic.twitter.com/QMgJXFZFDJ

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 21, 2018

A couple goals and a World Cup win will do it for: Harry Kane, Antoine Griezmann, Romelu Lukaku

The Golden Ball winner is rarely the Golden Boot winner. Italy’s Salvatore Schillaci was the last player to win both, in 1990. But voters are certainly willing to give the award to a player who bags a ton of goals, and these are the guys doing that so far in this World Cup. A semifinal goal or two could go a long way towards Kane, Griezmann or Lukaku winning the biggest individual award they’ll ever capture.

The lurking dark horse: Eden Hazard

Because Hazard is on the same team with a midfield maestro like De Bruyne and a volume scorer like Lukaku, he’s down the pecking order at the moment. He also hasn’t scored in the knockout stage yet, which hurts his case. But Hazard is the only player at this World Cup with two goals and two assists. His threatening runs have made it easier for his teammates to shine. And he had low key one of the best goals at this tournament.

#MundialTelemundo @hazardeden10 no se quiso quedar atrás y ya marca su primer doblete en Rusia 2018. #BEL 4-1 #TUN pic.twitter.com/8lAUY0t413

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 23, 2018

Hazard isn’t a favorite at the moment, but he looks capable of going off at any moment. If he dominates against France, he could leapfrog his teammates.

Sorry buddy, too young to enter: Kylian Mbappe

19-year-old Mbappe has been the breakout star of the World Cup, scoring three times and producing some iconic images after his goal against Argentina.

Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images

But with this many established stars having good World Cups, he’ll probably have to be content with winning best young player, which he already has locked up. Nothing short of a truly dominant semifinal and final, where he significantly outshines Griezmann, is going to win Mbappe a Golden Ball.

Perhaps in a more just world: N’Golo Kante

Yes, Kante has been the best player at this tournament. No, the voters will not care. A defensive midfielder has never won this award and probably never will.

Need two masterful performances in back-to-back 0-0 draws: Jordan Pickford, Raphäel Varane

Goalkeepers have won the Golden Ball before, and central defender Fabio Cannavaro probably would have pulled it off in 2006 if Zinedine Zidane was just a little less impressive. In the event that none of the current favorites for the award impress over the next two games, it’s not impossible that one of the tournament’s best defensive players wins the award. But if that happens, it’ll be one of these two, rather than Kante, who does not get the benefit of making saves or goal-line clearances.

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Is The World Cup's Most Neurotic Team Finally Self-Actualizing?

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Is The World Cup's Most Neurotic Team Finally Self-Actualizing?

WASHINGTON — By dumb luck, the two Washington bars where huge crowds of Germany and Mexico fans decided to watch their teams face off in the 2018 World Cup sit right next door to each other. By 10 a.m. on Sunday, a stretch of Connecticut Avenue swarmed with soccer fans wearing the signature green kits of Mexico’s team or the white shirts of the German squad, the defending champions who went to Russia as a favorite to win again.

The German pub was already full, the line stretching for more than a block even though the men at the door had already told the fans outside that they had no hope of entry.

And so it was that I wound up standing next to two German men, both wearing replica Die Mannschaft kits, on the third floor of the other bar ― the three of us, German and German and American, shoulder-to-shoulder in a sea of Mexico fans who, in the United States’ absence, have helped turn Mexico into America’s World Cup team.

“It’s more fun anyway, I think, to watch here with the Mexico fans,” one of the Germans said as those fans sent the opening lines of the Himno Nacional Mexicano ringing through the bar, just as Mexico’s supporters in Moscow were doing inside the stadium.

Mexican fans had already brought the party to Moscow, and on Washington’s streets, you could have been forgiven for not realizing the World Cup was actually underway until it was Mexico’s turn to play. Not that the result of the country’s first match seemed much in question. With a roster made up of players from the world’s biggest clubs ― Bayern Munich and Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid ― the Germans were overwhelming favorites. As for El Tri, the consensus was that the real tests would come later on, against South Korea and Sweden in the group stage and then, perhaps si Dios quiere, in the single-elimination round of 16.

No one thought Mexico had much of a chance, maybe least of all the Mexican fans. This is the nature of things at the World Cup. Basically, every World Cup country clings to the maudlin belief that it is unique in its fatalism. If anything about this sort of fatalism is unique, it’s the culture that gets constructed around it — the various shibboleths and talismans and pop psychologies. Mexico has ya merito: “Nearly there but not quite. Almost just.” Six straight losses in the knockout rounds? Ya merito. Holland’s Arjen Robben taking a dive to win a penalty in 2014? No era penal, and also, ya merito.

Mexico does have some cause for feeling particularly bedeviled. Only Germany and Brazil have joined it in advancing to the knockout rounds in each of the past six World Cups, but those two countries have combined to lift the trophy three times in that span. Mexico hasn’t so much as reached the quarterfinals.

Still, there is nothing uniquely Mexican about losing a tournament that in its 88-year history has been won by only eight different nations. Ask the English about penalty shootouts, the Dutch about World Cup finals. Ya merito is a near-universal condition in soccer, shared by 31 teams every four years.

But fatalism is no less powerful for being imprecise, and so in the runup to the World Cup, it was ya merito setting the terms by which Mexico fans would view the team. Its particular World Cup plague ― the so-called “curse of the fifth game” ― had dominated coverage before the tournament, in promotional ads and news stories alike.

But it wasn’t just a storyline. In 2016, manager Juan Carlos Osorio added a “mental coach” to his staff after Chile steamrolled Mexico, 7-0, at that year’s Copa America Centenario. He was trying to shatter the apparent belief within Mexico’s players that El Tri’s problems were of an existential nature.

The results on the field back then were mixed, and Osorio’s belief in the mental side of soccer led only to more criticism that his team was soft. Mexico entered this World Cup in a state of flux after struggling through its pre-tournament tuneup matches.

Osorio was unpopular for his constant lineup shifting; the team was under siege at home amid reports of a pre-tournament party that apparently involved more than 30 prostitutes. The window on a golden generation of talent wasn’t just starting to close ― some began to suggest it already had. That Mexico could finally break its streak of six straight World Cups without reaching the quarterfinals seemed unlikely. That they could beat a team like Germany was too impossible even to consider.

But whether because of a newfound mental fortitude or the liberation of reduced expectations, Mexico opened Sunday’s match against Germany by absorbing Die Mannschaft’s advances and then punching back. It was Mexico marauding through the midfield and slicing up a sluggish defense with sharp passes and unrelenting sprints, Mexico creating chances and … Mexico failing to break through. German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer stymied each attack ― a very large man reminding Mexico that it had a very large problem.

“It’s different,” one of the Germans at the bar said, “when you have the best keeper in the world.”

Finally, Mexico’s moment arrived. In the 35th minute, Andres Guardado sprang a counterattack, striker Javier “Chicharito” Hernández sliced through the German defense, and Hirving “Chucky” Lozano ― Mexico’s hottest young scorer ― fired a shot inside the left post past a diving Neuer. Mexico, 1-0.

#MundialTelemundo En voz de 🎙 @AndresCantorGOL así vivimos el gol de @HirvingLozano70 para el 1-0 de #MEX sobre #GER pic.twitter.com/lEFVHW9SEu

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 17, 2018

The next hour was spent somewhere between frantic desperation and breathless optimism, an entire bar full of people chanting “Si se puede” when they weren’t engaging in the same deep breathing exercises Osorio had taken up on the sidelines. But that sense of ya merito never returned: It was El Tri, not Germany, that created the best chances to score.

Mexico had pulled off big results on the World Cup stage before. In 2014, for instance, a scoreless draw with host Brazil provided a crucial point that helped El Tri advance to the knockout stage. But aside from the team’s 1970 win over Belgium, which secured its first-ever berth in the World Cup quarterfinals, Sunday’s result may go down among the biggest in Mexican soccer history.

It was beautiful because so little of it made sense. It was Germany that entered the World Cup with, supposedly, soccer’s best midfield, but it was Guardado, Héctor Herrera and Carlos Vela who ran roughshod over their opponents. It was Mexican goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa who made the match-defining save that Neuer has produced so many times before. It was Osorio who deployed the tactics necessary to suffocate and frustrate a German side that has spent the last four years suffocating and frustrating everyone else. It was Germany that wilted under the pressure of opening its championship title defense. It was a near-perfect performance from a team that needed one, and it wasn’t a fluke: A slightly sharper Mexican attack might have produced a goal or two more, and would have deserved them.

Now El Tri’s door is wide open. Mexico should enter its matches with South Korea and Sweden as the clear favorite, especially after the lackluster contest between those two sides on Monday morning. El Tri could win the group, thus avoiding a potential matchup with another tournament favorite, Brazil, in the round of 16. It could put it all together in a way this star-crossed generation of Mexican talent has never quite done before.

Those questions will answer themselves eventually, but what happens next hardly seemed to matter for many hours after the final whistle blew on Sunday. Not during a World Cup in which Mexico had turned in the tournament’s first truly breathtaking performance, and not amid the celebrations that erupted in cities from Moscow to Mexico City to Washington. For now, at least, Mexico is on top of the world, and on the happy side of almost just.

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All 6 goals from the World Cup quarterfinals on Saturday, ranked

The best finishes from England vs. Sweden and Russia vs. Croatia.

There is precious little World Cup remaining, so we must cherish every moment we have. In that spirit, we’re going to watch all the goals from the quarterfinal matches on Saturday, Sweden vs. England and Russia vs. Croatia, and rank all of them. Why not?

6. Vida’s seeing-eye header for Croatia in extra time

#MundialTelemundo ¡Un gol que vale una eufórica celebración! Domagoj Vida acerca a #CRO a semifinales. Así lo narró @sadovnik1965 pic.twitter.com/cUz3nLMnq9