LIVE: Will Messi pass crown to heir apparent?

We're conscionable a mates of hours distant from the World Cup last - and careless of what happens, the storylines are tantalising.

For France, it's the accidental to go the archetypal squad to triumph back-to-back tournaments since Brazil successful 1958 and 1962. For Argentina? The accidental for Lionel Messi to ascend, finally, to a akin level of deity successful the eyes of his countrymen arsenic Diego Maradona.

"Either Lionel volition ascend to eden to basal adjacent to Diego, oregon Kylian volition commencement that travel to creating past of his own," erstwhile Socceroos skipper Craig Foster said.

For Kylian Mbappe to triumph a 2nd World Cup astatine conscionable 23 years of property would so beryllium highly impressive.

But who volition win? Foster said you can't foretell it. 

"The margins are excessively small, there's excessively galore large players connected the field," helium said 

"France are excessively experienced, Argentina person mislaid erstwhile successful 42 games - it's intolerable to predict. This is truly astir either the crowning glory of 1 of the large sporting talents successful quality past successful Lionel Messi, oregon the passing of the crown to Messi's heir apparent, and the adjacent ascendant fig of the adjacent 8 to 10 years, Kylian Mbappe."