Aside from the France vs Argentina game, that Netherlands vs Argentina game was one of the most memorable, especially that 90+11 goal, really that one is arguably one of the greatest World Cup goal ever
"They got closer to beating Argentina than France", agreed, Netherlands played even harder than France (who were basically dead for the first 80 minutes), Netherlands kept things as close as possible for the 120 minutes, and even did better in the penalty shootout.
poland v france too low the score doesn't show the whole story as it was only good match played by Poland and France amazing defence saved them from going 2-0 into second half. poland didn't have as much starpower to play whole 90 mins like that tho
Not a bad ranking but I can't justify giving Portugals blowout win vs Switzerland an S tier ranking. From a goal oriented entertainment standpoint sure, but the suspense of the matches quickly evaporated. The significance of Croatia knocking out Brazil and the fashion of how it happened after Neymar scores a beauty of a goal.... that's an S-tier finaly and probably the 3rd best game of the tournament
My exact thoughts man. Most people weren't even expecting Croatia to go through the group stage. But not only did they went to the quarter finals, they eliminated the heavy favourities Brazil, in an astoundin g manner. Everyone one was expecting Brazil to demolish Croatia, but not only did they held out onto extra time, but also managed go score an unbelievable equalizer in the last moments of the game. And the moment when Marquinos missed his penalty which eliminated Brazil was pure GOOSEBUMPS. Absolute masterpiece of a game, easy S tier.
totally agree. highlights wise it might've been better to watch portugal vs switzerland, but i remember watching brazil vs croatia live in class and it was easily much better to watch.
In my opinion Argentina vs Netherlands was the best match of the tournament. Similar to the final, Argentina dominated for most of the match with a late comeback from the opposition. It also had a ton of ref controversy for both sides and was by far the most heated match of the World Cup.
@@deadbush2812 the final was just so overwhelmingly one-sided for the majority of the game tho. it felt like watching argentina vs curacao not argentina vs france
@@tirodeesquina6458 Yeah after watching the first half of the final you would have thought that if you went to take a nap you'd wake up to a 4-0 or 5-0 scoreline, but at the last 10 minutes everything changed.
@@tirodeesquina6458 Argentina Netherlands was also overwhelmingly one sided for the majority of the game, only at the 83rd minute when Netherlands scored their first goal with their first shot on target did it get interesting
A good point but the two goals in ET and that Martinez save at the last second edge it for me. Also, the ET of the final had a lot more back and forth even without the goals. Against Netherlands, Argentina dominated the ET like they did most of the match
@@lirian3879yep and it was the best thing to happen to Argentina in the WC. Argentina came in with an unbeatable feeling, so getting their expectations flipped like that changed everything and made them realize they had to push themselves harder
Not putting Croatia vs Brazil in S tier should be a crime. All this tension and a underdog winning against a title- favorite was great! Definitely not a B tier
Did you see he dislikes Croatia, the only reason he put in a Croatian game in an A tier was that slip up goal in Canada vs Croatia that came for Canada. Probably beat some of his favorites or it goes to clubs where again its Barca Fan going after Madrid.
For me it was game of the tournament, the level displayed during this game was by far the highest of the whole WC. Both sides were very technique, precise, physique, lost very few balls... What a game !
@@user-uc7zf1xd8pI was honestly wondering for every match of theirs he ranked (except against Belgium) if he has a problem with them or I'm overcompensating that their country (and players to be honest) are not in greatest relationship with mine. Match against Brazil is S tier and match against Morroco had great goals so it should be A tier. That said Canada vs Croatia should be lower it was baby against a hydrogen bomb kind of a match.
@@schoolvlogs2480 like Morocco vs Spain ? These games were NOTHING alike, Brasil vs Croatia was very equal while Morocco put the defense and played only by counters while hoping they'd score. So unless you watch a game only by looking at the score, no these game were not alike at all.
France vs Argentina and Netherlands vs Argentina were literally the best games of the World Cup I don't think I've ever been the hyped and anxious over a football match lol
Would've put "🇭🇷 1 (4) - (2) 1 🇧🇷" in the S tier, it was so exciting and emotional! We were kind of acceptably underwhelmed when Neymar finally scored in the extra time (105'+1), so you have no idea how much we screamed "GOOOOOOOOOL" when Petkovic unexpectedly tied the match again (116') with only 5 minutes left in the extra time... I almost cried! And that Marquinhos miss in the pole in the penalty shootout, oh my gosh... we all started to dance for 🇭🇷's victory, as 🇧🇷 couldn't dance anymore 😅 Truly an epic match... though it was not the best 2022 World Cup match disputed that day...
@@vibechek Brazil has not showed that much actually tbh They played like Bayern in last couple of years (not this year haha) where when they are better they totally destroy the oponent, but when it's a close game, they are not really that special (eg game against swiss) I think Brazil did what they could, nothing more nothing less. + playing stupid offensive game with 1-0 lead and 5 mins to go, Croatia deserved to go to semis
@@tonino5268 Brazilian here, and I definitively agree. It was a very overrated team that since 2018 didn't play any match against EU teams, and whose only top-tier adversary was Argentina, to whom they lost one and draw another. We had some capable players and a strong coach, which was enough to thrash smaller opponents, but lacked both the resolve and the exceptional talent to go beyond when matched to more talented or decisive adversaries. And the lack of real testing against top-tier adversaries created an aura of "we are good enough" that worked against the team. Very deserved elimination.
only agree for brazil croatia it was thrilling from beginning to end and at no point of the match especially after neymar's goal you could see croatia somehow going through while arg ned was really heated and had a late comeback nothing really happened in the whole match besides that would of been more memorable and shocking if the underdog won
the fact that u put belgium croatia in d says that all u were looking for was goals. it was actually a really entertaining game(despite no goals) considering the way u were reviewing it deserved a b atleast
I honestly think he just doesn't like Croatia, Croatia had some of the best matches in the tournament but he puts all of them in B tier and under (How is Brazil - Croatia a B tier?????)
It was a frustrating and dead game. Belgium didn't deserve to be in the tournament, and they clearly didn't want to be there, judging by KDB's words. Croatia didn't care enough to finish them off. Of course we get one of the more boring games in the tournament.
I feel like you rated many games high because they had a lot of goals, but some weren’t that great. On the opposite, Croatia v Brasil and Ned v Argentina definitely deserved S Tier
the guy put all morocco's games in B tier lmao, i bet he didnt watch the world cup for sure and only, looked at the highlights, the morocco vs belgium and morocco vs canada matches were so entertaining to watch
I would say the top 2 best world cup matches for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup were the following: 1. Argentina vs. France - The sheer stakes of Lionel Messi's pride were on this match. He lost the 2014 WC Final, and up until 2021, Argentina have suffered defeat after defeat. However, Argentina were the favorites going into this tournament to win the match because they won the 2021 Copa and the 2022 Finalissima, both in spectacular fashion. I think that Argentina's loss to Saudi Arabia was a clear wake up call to them: get their heads out of their own asses and get to work. And this world cup, Argentina were in their best form possible. Everyone followed Messi as their leader. They helped Messi, and Messi helped them. It was a cohesive team, lots of fluidity and coordination, and all of it worked to a TEA. If Messi won, this would've cemented his legacy as the Greatest of All Time. Then you have France, the international juggernauts of the last 5 years. Thanks to Deschamps, and a whole bunch of young talent, all lead by Kylian Mbappe, France became an internation powerhouse. They cruised through the 2018 WC, made a statement at the 2020 EUROs, and destroyed everyone in the 2022 WC. If Kylian Mbappe won, he would be the first player and the youngest player since Pele to win back-to-back World Cups, and would've become an international dominator that POTENTIALLY matched the international juggernaut of Pele. There was a lot of back and forth in this match. Argentina destroyed France in the first half. France came back and Mbappe tied them in the second half. They traded blows in extra time. Then when it came to penalties, it was all riding on this, and Dibu did what he did best. I'm happy Argentina won, as Messi is my GOAT and THE GOAT, but I will ALWAYS, and I mean, ALWAYS respect France and Mbappe for their performances in this tournament. The 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup Final will go down, in my book, as the single greatest soccer/football match of all time, even more than of '96 Italy v. France, '14 Brazil v. Germany, '14 Argentina v. Germany, '22 Japan v. Spain, '10 Spain v. Netherlands, and so many more great matches. 2. Argentina vs. The Netherlands - The aptly named "Battle of Lusail" where a historic near 20 bookings happened, on-field drama, and a shit-load of antics. This match had HISTORY, and I was on the edge of my seat for this match. I knew there was bad blood between the Albesceleste and the Dutch, especially with the coaches and the players. This match was really good, two powerhouses went back and forth with each other, and that 100' free kick goal was absolutely stunning! I commend both Argentina and Holland for doing their absolute best. But the real highlight of this match was the referree, the bookings, and the bad blood that was displayed here. I knew this ref, and he was such a diva, as he wanted to make this match about him, and hell he did, as he was known to have some strife with Lionel Messi. But, the bookings were downright hilarious and absurd. The ref just handed out yellow cards like hotcakes, and to see the squabbles between the players was fun. It was brutal, as it did get physical. I saw Paredes straight yeet the ball into Holland's bench, and then I saw Van Dijk just run and shove Paredes to the ground. Then came the crowd brawl between the players. I was shocked, but man I was kinda laughing. This match was amazing.
As an argentinian, i f*cking hate the netherlands game 😑, i understand a why from a neutral perspective it was enjoyable, but from the people that were from those countries it was baaaad. That referee is probably the biggest clown i ever seen in football, not for anything fifa sent him off after the match. Any of the teams could have lost that game and wouldnt even be their fault, the desitions from the referee with the yellow cards was absurdly bad. Anyway... thank you for nothing laoz, good retirement, never come back 👋
bro even as a german, 2014 argentina vs germany was a really boring game to watch, basically nothing happened the first 100 minutes, the only memorable moment was obviously götzes goal
Just a correction, Mexico didn't think they were through until the last minute. Actually, Poland was ahead of Mexico on fairplay points all the time. The Saudi goal changed nothing, as Mexico needed one more goal regardless (3-0 to win on goal difference or 3-1 to win on goals scored).
One of the best moments along with the usual ones was in South Korea vs Portugal in which in those dying minutes son made a run for the whole pitch and made an assist and that sealed their spont in round of 16 such an amazing moment.
I’ll say this about Croatia vs Belgium. Watching Belgium have so many chances to score and constantly failing was hillarious. Sad though at the same time considering how strong they were in 2018
If that exact same game hadn't been the final it wouldn't be considered great. The only good thing of that game is that the World Cup was at stake and the dynamics of who would win it. But the level of football played was nothing special at all I think. I think it's just recency bias, which is somewhat comprenhensible. But of course it would have been "the best final ever" no matter the outcome.
@@r.c.c.10 "But the level of football played was nothing special at all I think". Come on, what match did you see? First half (and even part of the second) was a masterclass of football from Argentina, even Mbappe recognized something like that in middle time.
@@r.c.c.10 Dude, wait...what? The level of football, especially in the first half, was incredible, it looked like Real Madrid or Barcelona at their best. When France was losing, their coach took out their best players and they scored 2 goals against Argentina. That was something incredible, when he took out Griezmann I said WTF? And he showed what a good coach he is. After they tie, Argentina scores a goal and they seem to be champions but minutes later France scores another goal. And the last minute, that save by Martinez... Jezzz... I don't know what game you saw my friend
@seferinorino6951 apparently somebody is having a bad day... the dedication comes from putting in the time to edit and rank all of these games, making a video over half an hour despite receiving ungrateful twats such as yourself sitting behind a keyboard and being hateful. If you don't like it, don't watch it. He's putting time and effort into something he's passionate about. Leave the guy alone
Great Rating. I disagree with only a couple of those ratings, but it's kinda expected, since we're talking about 64 games. Nevertheless, pretty objective and justified ranking. Well done
My personal favourite was Belgium vs Morocco. I was watching it with a few other Moroccans and when the first goal was scored everyone went wild cause we didn't think we would have a chance at beating Belgium since they had Lukaku, De Bruyne, Hazard and Courtois but then it was disallowed since it was slightly offside. That was probably the lowest part of the 2022 World Cup for me second only to El-Yamiq barely missing a bicycle kick against France. Then Morocco managed to score again and everyone went wild again. The 2nd/3rd goal convinced me and pretty much the rest of Morocco that we could make it far in the World Cup. My 2nd favourite was Argentina vs France and my 3rd was Japan vs Spain since I'm a big Brighton fan and I wanted Mitoma to make it far in the world cup. He ended up having the most clutch/controversial assist in the world cup in that match and Costa Rica's second goal against Germany was probably my favourite non-Morocco related moment of the World Cup since at that moment Costa Rica and Japan would've been going through a group with Germany and Spain but Germany had to ruin it by scoring 3 more goals.
As a Dutchman, losing to the eventual champions the way we did after the match we had was elite. The 2014 loss was hard to stomach but this one was tolerable.
bro Croatia v Brazil was so tense; how did you not put it in S tier, also the excitement from a relatively believed underdog team to beat one of the teams widely believed to have a winning chance is so great!
Saying Spain was the better team in every regard then putting that game in B tier especially after that penalty shootout is a criminal take you must not have watched that match Edit: not putting Croatia and Brazil in S tier but Switzerland and Portugal instead is an even greater crime
and Argentina vs australia is an S tier?😂 this guy is obviously a messi dickrider and has no ball knowledge. Seems like he just looked at the scores and hadn't watched a single game
Being a fan of Argentina this cup was surreal. Backs against the walls after the very first game and just banger after banger after banger of a game from then on.
Thing is, normally the finals of these tournaments aren't that amazing, often resulting in low scoring games that are kinda boring to watch. Not this time lmao, this time it was one of the greatest football matches that I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing. When Mbappe scored the first 2 goals, my heart sank, I wanted messi to get the world cup and when that happened I started to shit myself. Easy to say, it was such a roller coaster and it definitely should have the reputation of being one of the best football matches ever played.
Fun correction for what you said about Mexico/Qatar game - Mexico actually needed a third goal against Saudi Arabia because they were going out based on number of yellow cards because their stats at that time were identical to Poland who were losing 2-0 to Argentina. (Both had lost 2-0 to Argentina, drew with each other and beating Saudi 2-0). Therefore the goal the Saudis scored actually had no impact whatsoever as Mexico still needed only one more goal as winning 3-1 would have sent them through on total goals scored.
I might put the Croatia Belgium game higher than a D, although there weren’t any goals, Belgium missed a million chances (mostly lukaku) and it had a lot of storyline to it being the end of belgiums golden generation.
so gutted for you lads. I'm Polish and Costa Rica was my first favorite World Cup team from back in 2014 when we didn't qualify, and since I saw you beat Uruguay in the first game I supported you as if it was my team, on this amazing journey up until the quarter-final penalties. Man, I still miss those few minutes where Costa Rica and Japan were making it out of the group. The potential Costa Rica - Morocco match would have been one for the ages
And I am firmly convinced we would have eliminated Morocco had we qualified instead of Spain, because Morocco felt comfortable assuming a position of supposed inferiority against their rivals (except Canada, maybe). Costa Rica would have left the Moroccans no choice but to assume a more dominant position, which would have made them feel very uneasy. Kinda what happened with us in 2014 with Greece. They were nothing like the three world champions we faced in the group stage and led us to a stressful match.
One of the reasons ill never forget the final was that it took 4 hours for my pizzas to be delivered. They sent them to the wrong house, forgot about them and then finally made them a size larger, refunded the order and gave us cookies. The pizzas was meant to arrive at the start of the match.
I'm from Argentina and in the final I was under the sun watching the game with tons of people, towards the end my soul was leaving my body, 50% of me was in the astral plane and the other 50% kept me alive... Damn such a mystical game...
7:00 when Mexico was up 2-0 they were losing on yellow cards to Poland, so they still needed one goal. When Saudi Arabia made it 2-1 Mexico was now losing on goal differential to Poland, but they still only needed one goal to go through, as if they made the score 3-1 they would now be winning on the most goals scored criteria, bypassing fair play tie breakers.
man, as an Argentinian I remember when Netherlands scored the 2nd goal I wanted to throw up and had a headache just from the nerves. I suffered that match more than the final one. thakfully it all ended how I wanted. nice video!
I would have put the matches with croatia and morroco MUCH higher Even if they were 0 - 0 a lot of the game it still felt much more exciting than most of the other matches. And the 3rd and 4th place match between them was just spectacular. That should have been the finale
@@Naahi95 big bosses? Those "big bosses" relied on refs a lot. The fact that Cro and Mor are smaller teams got them a bad treatment from refs in semis is a disgrace, don't approve that, don't be like fifa.
@@tonino5268 Croatia won just ONE match of 5 to reach the semifinals. The rest they tied and won on penalties. I don't think they deserved to be in the final. They didn't even deserve to win against Brazil, but oh well, the brazilians were too confident after scoring in ET and ended up paying the price. But they played waaay better than Croatia.
@@tonino5268 And for Morroco, they did very well I was rooting for them vs France, but let's be real, as good as they are in defense and mildfield, they lack a good attack and players who can finish and score goals. France just had those talented and quality players in the attack, and sometimes just with that you can win a game.
@@Naahi95 so what? Portugal won Euros 2016 with winning just 1 game in 90 mins. It's all about mental strength and winning mentality. It's not about what do you think but what happened and that is that Argentina was given a clown pen at 0:0 when Croatia was better for the first 30 mins and it totally shifted the momentum. And while you are on Croatia Brazil you say a very contradictory thing. Croatia didn't deserve but Brazil was way too offensive and payed the price? So obviously Croatia deserved. Again as I say, mentally way stronger and focused on winning and not dying hair and dancing got them win. It's not coincidence Brazil loses to every well organised european team in knockouts on every wc in the last 16 years. Croatia played waaay better than france in the world cup final and france was the world champion. It's not all about esthetics. And Morocco had a situation in the other semi final when their player was fouled by theo hernandez for a pen but ref gave france a foul and yellow for moroccoan player. I bet it wouldn't happen that way on the other side. So fck your "big bosses " and their treatment!
I dont understand how you put France vs Poland in B and Mexico vs Poland in D. Mexico vs Poland was an amazing close game the whole 90 minutes and i was on the edge of my seat the whole time, while France vs Poland was just a blowout.
Changes i would make: -Argentina vs Saudi Arabia-S tier -Germany vs Japan-S tier -Spain vs Costa Rica-B tier -Uruguay vs South Korea-C tier -Iran vs Wales-B tier -Argentina vs Mexico-A tier -Australia vs Tunisia-B tier -Costa Rica vs Japan-B tier -Spain vs Germany-S tier -Morocco vs Belgium-A tier -Cameroon vs Serbia-S tier -Ecuador vs Senegal-A tier -Australia vs Denmark-A tier -Cameroon vs Brazil-A tier -Ghana vs Uruguay-S tier Knockouts -Morocco vs Spain-A tier -Portugal vs Switzerland-A tier -Croatia vs Brazil-S tier -Morocco vs Portugal-S tier -England vs France-S tier -Argentina vs Croatia-B tier Overall thoughts; underrated a couple games a little, 95% were underrated due to the history and social impacts of the results (example, Morocco being the first African team ever to make the semi-finals), but very good video nevertheless
Good list. This was one of the best World Cups I have ever seen but as a Canadian like you I was disappointed in our display in the tournament. At least my GOAT won the whole thing in the end 😍
It sounded weird when you said "as Messi & Co advanced to the World Cup Final for the first time since 2014" making it sound like it was a looong time ago, when it was only 2 world cups ago haha. Great video!
This was my first World Cup and as an Australian it was so magical to experience Of course id probably rank our matches high out of bias but you probably picked the right the places haha The Australia and Argentina game being S was definitely where id have it too tho, as sad as it was haha
@@r.c.c.10 Only France was dreadful in the final, while Argentina managed to finally show some brilliant football (until the 1st French goal) - all of the Argentinian performances had actually been bland until the final, lol (regardless of the scores).
@@martinusv7433 France got pretty much bailed out by a couple of terrible errors by Argentina defense, and the incredibly unlucky handball. A fair score would have been 3-1 or even 3-0.
@@vibechek on my opinion, i dont like matches that are excesively yone sided, like the spain vs costa rica and the portugal vs switzerland. Its good for a while but it gets boring pretty quick id a team makes 3 goals in the first half and the other gets nothing.
what was the website that you used for those match results? great vid tho i think the arg and Netherlands game should've been a bit higher and the saudi arabia vs argentina
I mostly agree here, with the only major exception being Brazil-Croatia. Final aside, it was arguably the most thrilling one to watch as a neutral. I was so glad to see : 1. Brazil’s arrogance come back to bite them in the ass ; 2. Croatia pull off another upset. Definitely S tier for me.
Australia vs Argentina was tough because I was born in Australia but I love Messi so I wasn’t too disappointed on who won surprised Australia didn’t get smashed tho 😊
The final match was worthy to be the final match. All the drama and the roller coaster. And almost 90% cheering for Messi and Argentina finally saw it coming after almost losing it in the finals seconds. No one could have ever imagined this even if you script it, it won't be what had become.
deserved game of the tournament for the last game of the world cup. I am fully convinced this game alone could become a movie someday. Absolutely astounding from from Argentina and France with pressure that is not seen often in sports.
7:00 Mexico didn´t think they were going through with the 2-0 lead. IIR they needed to score a goal as with the current lead they were going out on GF, when Saudi Arabia scored if they scored a goal Mexico would´ve still been through. (2-0 or 2-1 Mexico were out, 3-0 or 3-1 they were in)
Completely agree with that Eng v USA game, man was that a disappointment. After 12 years of wonder followed by anticipation and hype from the WC draw and then we got… that? Great video btw.
Me and my dad were watching the world cup final, and when Mbappe scored in the 81st minute, my dad got so mad he left and started to vacuum, but when Messi scored and I yelled goal, my dad came running down to see. What an unforgettable game!
i think poland v argentina was one of the best games in the world cup in the first 45 szczesny masterclass saving a messi pen and being completly dominate and the madness cuz lewandowski tackled messi then messi got mad lol
With all the tension and all the goals Belgium missed, I would consider 🇭🇷 vs. 🇧🇪 to be the best 0-0 match in the tournament (after 🇭🇷 vs. 🇧🇷 , which was technically a 0-0 until the extra time, but the main match was even more exciting than the 🇧🇪 match).
@@vibechek Fair enough, but don't forget Croatia 🇭🇷 was the runner-up ~(if that's how you say it)~ in the last world cup, 2018. They are not easily dominated (in fact, we all felt super proud when our country beat them 3-0 in the semi-finals, it was an unbelievable achievement).
@@vibechek out of curiosity, why did you expect belgium to be dominant? None of the teams have qualified further so you could expect both of them to go hard, belgium showed almost nothing in previous 2 matches while croatia showed great defence (against morocco) and great offence (against canada). Also at the moment belgium was 3rd place defender and croatia 2nd from previous wc while cro also qualified for nations league finals beating france on the way. I understand you expecting belgium to win, but dominate?
Saudi Vs Argentina is S tier definitely, the fans of Saudi and Argentina where by far the most in attendance in the World Cup and that match was out of this world good and Saudi ended Argentina’s unbeaten streak which was tied with Italy and they couldn’t break the record also funnily enough they ended up winning the whole thing this game will be remembered for generations
To each their own, with some ratings I agree, with some I don't. In general I think you missed a littl the point of why football is the most popular sport on the planet, the close and tense games that can go either way (even if score is 0:0) or games with a lot of turns are easily more entertaining and fun to watch then 4-5-6 goals difference trashing unless it is a huge surprise (brazil-germany 1:7, spain-nederlands 1:5). The surprise of Morocco dominating Belgium is much better than spain beating CR 5 goals difference. Japan vs spain/germany were amazing games, bra-cro easily one of the best matches of tournament (top 3 probably), the tension behind serbia-switzerland (swi has players of kosovo origin so those 2 teams always have heated matches) and so on. Not everything is just a lot of goals, germany beat saudi arabia few years ago 8-1 (or smthing) and nobody would vote it as amazing game cause there was 0 tension in it. The point is, concentrate more on the tension and probability of the game being decided at any moment or turned around more than goals themselves ;)
Watched the final a day before a big exam. Ended up doing poorly on that exam but crushed the course in the next semester. I already forgot what was on that exam but will remember that match forever. Worth it
14:24 I even now have shivers Ofc the final was the best but Netherlands vs Argentina was also amazing, incredible btw are you fun of Bayern cause you was talkin a lot about my man Robert and I'm so glad that you didn't put Poland vs Mexico very low hahha
Ur rankings r mad bro XD I mean to each his own, and obviously I have some bias favoring Ecuador, all three games were thrilling to me, esp Netherlands but the stalemate games in B tier? Spain/Morocco was NOT a B-tier to me. some stalemates/low-scoring games were very entertaining
Saudi Arabia winning Argentina is one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history. Well... along with Algeria winning West Germany in 1982, Roger Milla and Cameroon winning World Champions Argentina in 1990 and Senegal winning World Champions France in 2002 opening game. Those are some really crazy results. It seems like the big football giant countries are always the most vulnerable in their opening games.
@@tonino5268 nah, the only questionable penalty that argentina got was in the match against poland, for me it wasnt, but in the end it was an interpretation from the referee that the play from the gk was risky, so its not that it wasnt unbiased. The rest were all fair
Great idea, good video, but very based rankings. You ranked high scoring matches that were not exciting at all really high, and on the other hand you ranked low the matches that didn't have lots of goals but were exciting and thrilling until the final whistle (eg. Croatia - Brasil, maybe even Croatia - Belgium). It looks like you ranked many of these based of just goals and some highlights and not the gameplay. Also you really undervalued Croatia in the ranking. I would love to see this kind of video for 2018 world cup.
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Aside from the France vs Argentina game, that Netherlands vs Argentina game was one of the most memorable, especially that 90+11 goal, really that one is arguably one of the greatest World Cup goal ever
They really got closer to beating Argentina than France
doesnt compete with diegos unforgettable goal against england
Richarlison too
"They got closer to beating Argentina than France", agreed, Netherlands played even harder than France (who were basically dead for the first 80 minutes), Netherlands kept things as close as possible for the 120 minutes, and even did better in the penalty shootout.
I mean every hater says it was rigged for Argentina...and yet a 90+11 mins goal happened...if that's not rigged, I don't know what is 😂🤡
I would have put Argentina vs Netherlands higher just bc of the fight 💀💀💀, great vid tho-
Yea that fight was wild 😂 thanks!!
poland v france too low the score doesn't show the whole story as it was only good match played by Poland and France amazing defence saved them from going 2-0 into second half. poland didn't have as much starpower to play whole 90 mins like that tho
@@KeithKemp_ That game also was good, and it was a high scoring match, it just got overshadowed.
As an argentinian, after all Van Gaal' statements prior to the game, the drama and shithousery was expected and yet thrilling haha.
@@argusy3866 fngs award, yeah he terrible
Not a bad ranking but I can't justify giving Portugals blowout win vs Switzerland an S tier ranking. From a goal oriented entertainment standpoint sure, but the suspense of the matches quickly evaporated. The significance of Croatia knocking out Brazil and the fashion of how it happened after Neymar scores a beauty of a goal.... that's an S-tier finaly and probably the 3rd best game of the tournament
Yeah
My exact thoughts man. Most people weren't even expecting Croatia to go through the group stage. But not only did they went to the quarter finals, they eliminated the heavy favourities Brazil, in an astoundin g manner. Everyone one was expecting Brazil to demolish Croatia, but not only did they held out onto extra time, but also managed go score an unbelievable equalizer in the last moments of the game. And the moment when Marquinos missed his penalty which eliminated Brazil was pure GOOSEBUMPS. Absolute masterpiece of a game, easy S tier.
Brazil Croatia is one of the best football games I’ve ever watched.
Fr I thought that was an s there fosho
totally agree. highlights wise it might've been better to watch portugal vs switzerland, but i remember watching brazil vs croatia live in class and it was easily much better to watch.
In my opinion Argentina vs Netherlands was the best match of the tournament. Similar to the final, Argentina dominated for most of the match with a late comeback from the opposition. It also had a ton of ref controversy for both sides and was by far the most heated match of the World Cup.
second best match but nowhere near the final
@@deadbush2812 the final was just so overwhelmingly one-sided for the majority of the game tho. it felt like watching argentina vs curacao not argentina vs france
@@tirodeesquina6458 Yeah after watching the first half of the final you would have thought that if you went to take a nap you'd wake up to a 4-0 or 5-0 scoreline, but at the last 10 minutes everything changed.
@@tirodeesquina6458 Argentina Netherlands was also overwhelmingly one sided for the majority of the game, only at the 83rd minute when Netherlands scored their first goal with their first shot on target did it get interesting
A good point but the two goals in ET and that Martinez save at the last second edge it for me.
Also, the ET of the final had a lot more back and forth even without the goals. Against Netherlands, Argentina dominated the ET like they did most of the match
Personally, I would put Saudi Arabia beating Messi's Aregentina in S tier. No one was expecting it and quite personally, it really shocked me at 4am.
Fr everyone doubted Argentina after that point. Every narrative changed, all the unexpected happened, one of the defining games of the tournament.
@@lirian3879 Agreed, it raised the stakes and made Argentina's possible World Cup dream even grander.
fr It was like four in the morning and me and my brother are screaming waking up our family over it and it gets a B tier? makes no sense
@@lirian3879yep and it was the best thing to happen to Argentina in the WC. Argentina came in with an unbeatable feeling, so getting their expectations flipped like that changed everything and made them realize they had to push themselves harder
ahhh the character development match... That hit us right on time to wake up from that 36 undefeated matches in a row slumber
Not putting Croatia vs Brazil in S tier should be a crime. All this tension and a underdog winning against a title- favorite was great! Definitely not a B tier
Did you see he dislikes Croatia, the only reason he put in a Croatian game in an A tier was that slip up goal in Canada vs Croatia that came for Canada. Probably beat some of his favorites or it goes to clubs where again its Barca Fan going after Madrid.
For me it was game of the tournament, the level displayed during this game was by far the highest of the whole WC. Both sides were very technique, precise, physique, lost very few balls... What a game !
@@user-uc7zf1xd8pI was honestly wondering for every match of theirs he ranked (except against Belgium) if he has a problem with them or I'm overcompensating that their country (and players to be honest) are not in greatest relationship with mine.
Match against Brazil is S tier and match against Morroco had great goals so it should be A tier. That said Canada vs Croatia should be lower it was baby against a hydrogen bomb kind of a match.
That game was kinda boring tbh, it’s like the Spain x Marocco game, it only got good in the penalties (and as a Brazilian, it hurt af)
@@schoolvlogs2480 like Morocco vs Spain ? These games were NOTHING alike, Brasil vs Croatia was very equal while Morocco put the defense and played only by counters while hoping they'd score. So unless you watch a game only by looking at the score, no these game were not alike at all.
France vs Argentina and Netherlands vs Argentina were literally the best games of the World Cup I don't think I've ever been the hyped and anxious over a football match lol
Tell me about anxius haha im from Argentina. Those matches almost give me a heart attack hahah
@@emmanuelmartin2310 I was crying during the Netherlands game when they equalised I couldn’t even watch the shootout lmao I was a wreck😭
Frrr
@@emmanuelmartin2310 yeah bro I can only imagine, greetings from Argentina!
Would've put "🇭🇷 1 (4) - (2) 1 🇧🇷" in the S tier, it was so exciting and emotional!
We were kind of acceptably underwhelmed when Neymar finally scored in the extra time (105'+1), so you have no idea how much we screamed "GOOOOOOOOOL" when Petkovic unexpectedly tied the match again (116') with only 5 minutes left in the extra time... I almost cried! And that Marquinhos miss in the pole in the penalty shootout, oh my gosh... we all started to dance for 🇭🇷's victory, as 🇧🇷 couldn't dance anymore 😅 Truly an epic match... though it was not the best 2022 World Cup match disputed that day...
Fair enough, it was a wild game, I think I just expected more from the Brazil side, but a what a performance by Croatia. Wild game to relive
Definitely agree
@@vibechek Brazil has not showed that much actually tbh
They played like Bayern in last couple of years (not this year haha) where when they are better they totally destroy the oponent, but when it's a close game, they are not really that special (eg game against swiss)
I think Brazil did what they could, nothing more nothing less.
+ playing stupid offensive game with 1-0 lead and 5 mins to go, Croatia deserved to go to semis
I agree I thought it was one of the best games of the tournament. Watching tose Pki is something I’ll never forget
@@tonino5268 Brazilian here, and I definitively agree. It was a very overrated team that since 2018 didn't play any match against EU teams, and whose only top-tier adversary was Argentina, to whom they lost one and draw another. We had some capable players and a strong coach, which was enough to thrash smaller opponents, but lacked both the resolve and the exceptional talent to go beyond when matched to more talented or decisive adversaries. And the lack of real testing against top-tier adversaries created an aura of "we are good enough" that worked against the team. Very deserved elimination.
I would put Arg vs Netherlands and Brazil vs Croatia in S tier. Must watch matches!
i agree with brazil vs croatia. But he literally put Arg vs Netherlands in S tier.
only agree for brazil croatia it was thrilling from beginning to end and at no point of the match especially after neymar's goal you could see croatia somehow going through while arg ned was really heated and had a late comeback nothing really happened in the whole match besides that would of been more memorable and shocking if the underdog won
Also Morocco vs Spain
I was at both of those games, I had to get the bus across town, was such a memory
@@Mohamed-FreePalestinaMorocco Spain was boring
the fact that u put belgium croatia in d says that all u were looking for was goals. it was actually a really entertaining game(despite no goals) considering the way u were reviewing it deserved a b atleast
it was a dead game
I honestly think he just doesn't like Croatia, Croatia had some of the best matches in the tournament but he puts all of them in B tier and under (How is Brazil - Croatia a B tier?????)
Agreed. Very biased towards goals and certain countries. All 3 games of the Netherlands in group stage should be C or D. (I'm dutch)
Don’t think he watched that game considering he probably should have remembered all of lukaku’s misses lol
It was a frustrating and dead game. Belgium didn't deserve to be in the tournament, and they clearly didn't want to be there, judging by KDB's words. Croatia didn't care enough to finish them off. Of course we get one of the more boring games in the tournament.
I feel like you rated many games high because they had a lot of goals, but some weren’t that great. On the opposite, Croatia v Brasil and Ned v Argentina definitely deserved S Tier
the guy put all morocco's games in B tier lmao, i bet he didnt watch the world cup for sure and only, looked at the highlights,
the morocco vs belgium and morocco vs canada matches were so entertaining to watch
@@AbyssContentHe puts Portugal swi in S tier. Guy doesn't know the game
yeah i agree he pretty much ranked it on the goals and is pretty biased
He put them in S
I would say the top 2 best world cup matches for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup were the following:
1. Argentina vs. France -
The sheer stakes of Lionel Messi's pride were on this match. He lost the 2014 WC Final, and up until 2021, Argentina have suffered defeat after defeat. However, Argentina were the favorites going into this tournament to win the match because they won the 2021 Copa and the 2022 Finalissima, both in spectacular fashion. I think that Argentina's loss to Saudi Arabia was a clear wake up call to them: get their heads out of their own asses and get to work. And this world cup, Argentina were in their best form possible. Everyone followed Messi as their leader. They helped Messi, and Messi helped them. It was a cohesive team, lots of fluidity and coordination, and all of it worked to a TEA. If Messi won, this would've cemented his legacy as the Greatest of All Time.
Then you have France, the international juggernauts of the last 5 years. Thanks to Deschamps, and a whole bunch of young talent, all lead by Kylian Mbappe, France became an internation powerhouse. They cruised through the 2018 WC, made a statement at the 2020 EUROs, and destroyed everyone in the 2022 WC. If Kylian Mbappe won, he would be the first player and the youngest player since Pele to win back-to-back World Cups, and would've become an international dominator that POTENTIALLY matched the international juggernaut of Pele.
There was a lot of back and forth in this match. Argentina destroyed France in the first half. France came back and Mbappe tied them in the second half. They traded blows in extra time. Then when it came to penalties, it was all riding on this, and Dibu did what he did best.
I'm happy Argentina won, as Messi is my GOAT and THE GOAT, but I will ALWAYS, and I mean, ALWAYS respect France and Mbappe for their performances in this tournament.
The 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup Final will go down, in my book, as the single greatest soccer/football match of all time, even more than of '96 Italy v. France, '14 Brazil v. Germany, '14 Argentina v. Germany, '22 Japan v. Spain, '10 Spain v. Netherlands, and so many more great matches.
2. Argentina vs. The Netherlands -
The aptly named "Battle of Lusail" where a historic near 20 bookings happened, on-field drama, and a shit-load of antics. This match had HISTORY, and I was on the edge of my seat for this match. I knew there was bad blood between the Albesceleste and the Dutch, especially with the coaches and the players. This match was really good, two powerhouses went back and forth with each other, and that 100' free kick goal was absolutely stunning! I commend both Argentina and Holland for doing their absolute best.
But the real highlight of this match was the referree, the bookings, and the bad blood that was displayed here. I knew this ref, and he was such a diva, as he wanted to make this match about him, and hell he did, as he was known to have some strife with Lionel Messi. But, the bookings were downright hilarious and absurd. The ref just handed out yellow cards like hotcakes, and to see the squabbles between the players was fun. It was brutal, as it did get physical. I saw Paredes straight yeet the ball into Holland's bench, and then I saw Van Dijk just run and shove Paredes to the ground. Then came the crowd brawl between the players. I was shocked, but man I was kinda laughing.
This match was amazing.
As an argentinian, i f*cking hate the netherlands game 😑, i understand a why from a neutral perspective it was enjoyable, but from the people that were from those countries it was baaaad. That referee is probably the biggest clown i ever seen in football, not for anything fifa sent him off after the match. Any of the teams could have lost that game and wouldnt even be their fault, the desitions from the referee with the yellow cards was absurdly bad. Anyway... thank you for nothing laoz, good retirement, never come back 👋
It was also the closest Argentina came to losing arguably, which fueled the fouls
bro even as a german, 2014 argentina vs germany was a really boring game to watch, basically nothing happened the first 100 minutes, the only memorable moment was obviously götzes goal
Just a correction, Mexico didn't think they were through until the last minute. Actually, Poland was ahead of Mexico on fairplay points all the time. The Saudi goal changed nothing, as Mexico needed one more goal regardless (3-0 to win on goal difference or 3-1 to win on goals scored).
Yep 👍
One of the best moments along with the usual ones was in South Korea vs Portugal in which in those dying minutes son made a run for the whole pitch and made an assist and that sealed their spont in round of 16 such an amazing moment.
One of the best moments of the entire group stage for sure
I’ll say this about Croatia vs Belgium. Watching Belgium have so many chances to score and constantly failing was hillarious. Sad though at the same time considering how strong they were in 2018
Lakaka intensifies
so perfect that the game of the tournament is the final, what a way for the saga to end. I will never forget that game.
If that exact same game hadn't been the final it wouldn't be considered great. The only good thing of that game is that the World Cup was at stake and the dynamics of who would win it. But the level of football played was nothing special at all I think. I think it's just recency bias, which is somewhat comprenhensible.
But of course it would have been "the best final ever" no matter the outcome.
@@r.c.c.10 "But the level of football played was nothing special at all I think". Come on, what match did you see? First half (and even part of the second) was a masterclass of football from Argentina, even Mbappe recognized something like that in middle time.
@@r.c.c.10 Dude, wait...what? The level of football, especially in the first half, was incredible, it looked like Real Madrid or Barcelona at their best. When France was losing, their coach took out their best players and they scored 2 goals against Argentina. That was something incredible, when he took out Griezmann I said WTF? And he showed what a good coach he is. After they tie, Argentina scores a goal and they seem to be champions but minutes later France scores another goal. And the last minute, that save by Martinez... Jezzz... I don't know what game you saw my friend
The fact that you took the time to go through all these games and rank each one shows insane dedication. Underrated youtuber. Keep going👊
Thanks man appreciate you 🤝🏻
@@vibechek fr dude, ur a w
He didn’t watch all the games yet he rated all of them, how is that dedicated? What a joke
@seferinorino6951 apparently somebody is having a bad day... the dedication comes from putting in the time to edit and rank all of these games, making a video over half an hour despite receiving ungrateful twats such as yourself sitting behind a keyboard and being hateful. If you don't like it, don't watch it. He's putting time and effort into something he's passionate about. Leave the guy alone
He's an US American lol, most of these things he's saying in this video are bollocks
Great Rating. I disagree with only a couple of those ratings, but it's kinda expected, since we're talking about 64 games.
Nevertheless, pretty objective and justified ranking. Well done
Thank you! Hopefully you enjoyed the vid, and agree with the important rankings haha, appreciate it 🤝🏻
My personal favourite was Belgium vs Morocco. I was watching it with a few other Moroccans and when the first goal was scored everyone went wild cause we didn't think we would have a chance at beating Belgium since they had Lukaku, De Bruyne, Hazard and Courtois but then it was disallowed since it was slightly offside. That was probably the lowest part of the 2022 World Cup for me second only to El-Yamiq barely missing a bicycle kick against France. Then Morocco managed to score again and everyone went wild again. The 2nd/3rd goal convinced me and pretty much the rest of Morocco that we could make it far in the World Cup.
My 2nd favourite was Argentina vs France and my 3rd was Japan vs Spain since I'm a big Brighton fan and I wanted Mitoma to make it far in the world cup. He ended up having the most clutch/controversial assist in the world cup in that match and Costa Rica's second goal against Germany was probably my favourite non-Morocco related moment of the World Cup since at that moment Costa Rica and Japan would've been going through a group with Germany and Spain but Germany had to ruin it by scoring 3 more goals.
As a Dutchman, losing to the eventual champions the way we did after the match we had was elite. The 2014 loss was hard to stomach but this one was tolerable.
bro Croatia v Brazil was so tense; how did you not put it in S tier, also the excitement from a relatively believed underdog team to beat one of the teams widely believed to have a winning chance is so great!
I agree the drama an that game
Not sure how you’d forget the last Belgian game. It was the one where Lakaka scuffed like 5 clear cut chances.
Saying Spain was the better team in every regard then putting that game in B tier especially after that penalty shootout is a criminal take you must not have watched that match
Edit: not putting Croatia and Brazil in S tier but Switzerland and Portugal instead is an even greater crime
and Argentina vs australia is an S tier?😂 this guy is obviously a messi dickrider and has no ball knowledge. Seems like he just looked at the scores and hadn't watched a single game
Morocco vs Portugal should be high simply because they were the first African and Arabic team to make it to the semis ever
“Absolutely one of the best matches I’ve ever seen. B tier for this one”.
For me Croatia - Brazil was one of the best matches of the tournament
True even tho spain beat Croatia an the nation league
Pretty lame first half, absolute stunning ending. I have it as an A/S tier.
@@captainfalconmain6576 and croatia also beat france there after they lost to them in the wc 2018 final, so your point is kinda useless
Being a fan of Argentina this cup was surreal. Backs against the walls after the very first game and just banger after banger after banger of a game from then on.
Thing is, normally the finals of these tournaments aren't that amazing, often resulting in low scoring games that are kinda boring to watch. Not this time lmao, this time it was one of the greatest football matches that I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing. When Mbappe scored the first 2 goals, my heart sank, I wanted messi to get the world cup and when that happened I started to shit myself. Easy to say, it was such a roller coaster and it definitely should have the reputation of being one of the best football matches ever played.
Bro hates Morocco 😂
bros enjoyment of the game is based only on goals
Fun correction for what you said about Mexico/Qatar game - Mexico actually needed a third goal against Saudi Arabia because they were going out based on number of yellow cards because their stats at that time were identical to Poland who were losing 2-0 to Argentina. (Both had lost 2-0 to Argentina, drew with each other and beating Saudi 2-0). Therefore the goal the Saudis scored actually had no impact whatsoever as Mexico still needed only one more goal as winning 3-1 would have sent them through on total goals scored.
To this day, I still felt the emotions, stress of the world cup final, truly the best match I've ever seen.
Me too 2026 will be here soon
I might put the Croatia Belgium game higher than a D, although there weren’t any goals, Belgium missed a million chances (mostly lukaku) and it had a lot of storyline to it being the end of belgiums golden generation.
it was a 0 goal game
but yeah, that game kept me on my toes...after the game ended and after watching the score
Can't believe Morocco's matches were ranked so low
That final was not only the game of the tournament but easily the best match of the last 10 world cups
OAT
The video was a vibe but the music was more of a vibe l0ved it keep up this content ❤
As a Costa Rican, the match against Germany had us all in a chokehold, a rollercoaster of emotions, sadly we lost :(
so gutted for you lads. I'm Polish and Costa Rica was my first favorite World Cup team from back in 2014 when we didn't qualify, and since I saw you beat Uruguay in the first game I supported you as if it was my team, on this amazing journey up until the quarter-final penalties.
Man, I still miss those few minutes where Costa Rica and Japan were making it out of the group. The potential Costa Rica - Morocco match would have been one for the ages
And I am firmly convinced we would have eliminated Morocco had we qualified instead of Spain, because Morocco felt comfortable assuming a position of supposed inferiority against their rivals (except Canada, maybe). Costa Rica would have left the Moroccans no choice but to assume a more dominant position, which would have made them feel very uneasy. Kinda what happened with us in 2014 with Greece. They were nothing like the three world champions we faced in the group stage and led us to a stressful match.
the final was insane definitely the or one of the best finals of all time
great vid! keep it up!
Thanks!
Argentina was putting on banger after banger after banger throughout the tournament. Totally deserved champions🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷.
Banger loss against Saudi
@@stencelot were you not entertained???
One of the reasons ill never forget the final was that it took 4 hours for my pizzas to be delivered.
They sent them to the wrong house, forgot about them and then finally made them a size larger, refunded the order and gave us cookies.
The pizzas was meant to arrive at the start of the match.
I'm from Argentina and in the final I was under the sun watching the game with tons of people, towards the end my soul was leaving my body, 50% of me was in the astral plane and the other 50% kept me alive... Damn such a mystical game...
I am so jealous, must have been an experience for a life time
Referee getting that bag from the Argentinians good for you
@@wisdomonly_ haha if we had money for that
@@prodbytukoo okay at least you CANNOT tell me that France didn’t deserve the win
@@wisdomonly_ hahaaaa what match did you watch buddy, France got smurfed
7:00 when Mexico was up 2-0 they were losing on yellow cards to Poland, so they still needed one goal. When Saudi Arabia made it 2-1 Mexico was now losing on goal differential to Poland, but they still only needed one goal to go through, as if they made the score 3-1 they would now be winning on the most goals scored criteria, bypassing fair play tie breakers.
man, as an Argentinian I remember when Netherlands scored the 2nd goal I wanted to throw up and had a headache just from the nerves. I suffered that match more than the final one. thakfully it all ended how I wanted.
nice video!
Great list here. Now the countdown begins for Euro 2024 and Copa America 2024.
Maybe shocks will happen an euros 2024
I would have put the matches with croatia and morroco MUCH higher
Even if they were 0 - 0 a lot of the game it still felt much more exciting than most of the other matches. And the 3rd and 4th place match between them was just spectacular.
That should have been the finale
The finale? Nah, Arg-France were the big bosses, that match was the best WC final in history
@@Naahi95 big bosses? Those "big bosses" relied on refs a lot. The fact that Cro and Mor are smaller teams got them a bad treatment from refs in semis is a disgrace, don't approve that, don't be like fifa.
@@tonino5268 Croatia won just ONE match of 5 to reach the semifinals. The rest they tied and won on penalties. I don't think they deserved to be in the final. They didn't even deserve to win against Brazil, but oh well, the brazilians were too confident after scoring in ET and ended up paying the price. But they played waaay better than Croatia.
@@tonino5268 And for Morroco, they did very well I was rooting for them vs France, but let's be real, as good as they are in defense and mildfield, they lack a good attack and players who can finish and score goals. France just had those talented and quality players in the attack, and sometimes just with that you can win a game.
@@Naahi95 so what? Portugal won Euros 2016 with winning just 1 game in 90 mins. It's all about mental strength and winning mentality. It's not about what do you think but what happened and that is that Argentina was given a clown pen at 0:0 when Croatia was better for the first 30 mins and it totally shifted the momentum.
And while you are on Croatia Brazil you say a very contradictory thing. Croatia didn't deserve but Brazil was way too offensive and payed the price? So obviously Croatia deserved. Again as I say, mentally way stronger and focused on winning and not dying hair and dancing got them win. It's not coincidence Brazil loses to every well organised european team in knockouts on every wc in the last 16 years. Croatia played waaay better than france in the world cup final and france was the world champion. It's not all about esthetics.
And Morocco had a situation in the other semi final when their player was fouled by theo hernandez for a pen but ref gave france a foul and yellow for moroccoan player. I bet it wouldn't happen that way on the other side. So fck your "big bosses " and their treatment!
This is my first time watching your video and it was so good
Thanks man 🤝🏻 stay tuned for more!
I dont understand how you put France vs Poland in B and Mexico vs Poland in D. Mexico vs Poland was an amazing close game the whole 90 minutes and i was on the edge of my seat the whole time, while France vs Poland was just a blowout.
Changes i would make:
-Argentina vs Saudi Arabia-S tier
-Germany vs Japan-S tier
-Spain vs Costa Rica-B tier
-Uruguay vs South Korea-C tier
-Iran vs Wales-B tier
-Argentina vs Mexico-A tier
-Australia vs Tunisia-B tier
-Costa Rica vs Japan-B tier
-Spain vs Germany-S tier
-Morocco vs Belgium-A tier
-Cameroon vs Serbia-S tier
-Ecuador vs Senegal-A tier
-Australia vs Denmark-A tier
-Cameroon vs Brazil-A tier
-Ghana vs Uruguay-S tier
Knockouts
-Morocco vs Spain-A tier
-Portugal vs Switzerland-A tier
-Croatia vs Brazil-S tier
-Morocco vs Portugal-S tier
-England vs France-S tier
-Argentina vs Croatia-B tier
Overall thoughts; underrated a couple games a little, 95% were underrated due to the history and social impacts of the results (example, Morocco being the first African team ever to make the semi-finals), but very good video nevertheless
The dream of every world cup is to have the finals as the game of the tournament, and 2022 did it!
Ngl watching the World Cup at school was a vibe
Good list. This was one of the best World Cups I have ever seen but as a Canadian like you I was disappointed in our display in the tournament.
At least my GOAT won the whole thing in the end 😍
It sounded weird when you said "as Messi & Co advanced to the World Cup Final for the first time since 2014" making it sound like it was a looong time ago, when it was only 2 world cups ago haha.
Great video!
This was my first World Cup and as an Australian it was so magical to experience
Of course id probably rank our matches high out of bias but you probably picked the right the places haha
The Australia and Argentina game being S was definitely where id have it too tho, as sad as it was haha
My country has never qualified😭😭😭😭
@@jaspreetlamba4149 I’m sorry to hear that, I hope they can one day 🫡
Australia did so good I think they surprised everyone!
@@jacob-yy8sq thank u
This is my first time watching your video and it is still so good
Most of the games with France should be S tier, like France VS England which was a crazy game.
I would say Saudi Arabia vs Mexico is an A tier due to the circumstances, intensity, and a beautiful free kick goal
I remember being in English class and my teacher put that game on the board. Safe to say we all left that class devastated
Belgium vs Croatia was pretty iconic because of Lukaku missing every opportunity
True. Still iconic doesn't equal good. The same happened with the final. Very iconic but bad football.
@@r.c.c.10 Only France was dreadful in the final, while Argentina managed to finally show some brilliant football (until the 1st French goal) - all of the Argentinian performances had actually been bland until the final, lol (regardless of the scores).
@@martinusv7433 France got pretty much bailed out by a couple of terrible errors by Argentina defense, and the incredibly unlucky handball. A fair score would have been 3-1 or even 3-0.
surprised by the low amount of views and subs, deserves a lot more I hope RUclips blesses you! Subscribed!
Thank you I appreciate your support 🤝🏻
tho some questionable tier list rankings, still good video
Thanks! Which ones were questionable?
@@vibechek on my opinion, i dont like matches that are excesively yone sided, like the spain vs costa rica and the portugal vs switzerland. Its good for a while but it gets boring pretty quick id a team makes 3 goals in the first half and the other gets nothing.
Such a good video. Your channel is now one of my fav channels
Thank you 🤝🏻
disagree on Belgium - Croatia, Lukaku's open goal misses were legendary
One of the greatest videos ever made
what was the website that you used for those match results? great vid tho i think the arg and Netherlands game should've been a bit higher and the saudi arabia vs argentina
It's called FOTMOB, great website that has scores from hundreds of leagues around the world :D
I mostly agree here, with the only major exception being Brazil-Croatia. Final aside, it was arguably the most thrilling one to watch as a neutral. I was so glad to see : 1. Brazil’s arrogance come back to bite them in the ass ; 2. Croatia pull off another upset. Definitely S tier for me.
Australia vs Argentina was tough because I was born in Australia but I love Messi so I wasn’t too disappointed on who won surprised Australia didn’t get smashed tho 😊
Australia played so well they were so so close
Yall did a good run, greetings from 🇦🇷
i love the socceroos! 🦘❤️ they were a tough match for us 🇦🇷🤝🏻🇭🇲
not smashed, but unbelievable match
Scaloni said it was the hardest match of the WC. That said a lot about Australia. I hope you can qualify the next WC
love this content, took a look at your channel and am loving what i'm seeing, subscribing for sure!
this channel needs more subs i fr thought you had more than 100k subs with that video
That means a lot 🤝🏻 stay tuned for more content!
The final match was worthy to be the final match. All the drama and the roller coaster. And almost 90% cheering for Messi and Argentina finally saw it coming after almost losing it in the finals seconds. No one could have ever imagined this even if you script it, it won't be what had become.
Argentina= drama country
In 2026 there is gonna be like 100 games, have fun ranking them 💀
Also nice video I’m subbed
The 2026 video is going to be an hour long with all those games haha. Thanks dude!
deserved game of the tournament for the last game of the world cup. I am fully convinced this game alone could become a movie someday. Absolutely astounding from from Argentina and France with pressure that is not seen often in sports.
7:00 Mexico didn´t think they were going through with the 2-0 lead. IIR they needed to score a goal as with the current lead they were going out on GF, when Saudi Arabia scored if they scored a goal Mexico would´ve still been through. (2-0 or 2-1 Mexico were out, 3-0 or 3-1 they were in)
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Yep, they could have also go to the next phase if argentina made another goal to poland
they were going out on yellow cards actually
Highly respect and admire your ability to not let your team losing impact your rankings.
I'll take that as a compliment
Completely agree with that Eng v USA game, man was that a disappointment. After 12 years of wonder followed by anticipation and hype from the WC draw and then we got… that? Great video btw.
Thank you! Yea that game was such a letdown, had so much potential to be great
This is a great video
This video was amazing bro, also my teams Spain and Canada had a rough time sadly😪😪😪😪.... Would be sick if you could do one for 2018 and 2014!😁
Thank you! Appreciate the support, I'll definitely look into it!
Me and my dad were watching the world cup final, and when Mbappe scored in the 81st minute, my dad got so mad he left and started to vacuum, but when Messi scored and I yelled goal, my dad came running down to see. What an unforgettable game!
😂 man your dad gave up
i think poland v argentina was one of the best games in the world cup in the first 45 szczesny masterclass saving a messi pen and being completly dominate and the madness cuz lewandowski tackled messi then messi got mad lol
That match was too one-sided though. Argentina completely dominated both the halves
That game was a beautiful masterclass from Argentina, it was literally the whole team against Poland's goalkeeper 😂
This was really good coming from a small channel. Keep up the great work bro.
Thanks dude appreciate it 🤝🏻
Im Japanese and Costa Rican, group E was definitely a roller coaster for me 😭😭😭
Great Video
With all the tension and all the goals Belgium missed, I would consider 🇭🇷 vs. 🇧🇪 to be the best 0-0 match in the tournament (after 🇭🇷 vs. 🇧🇷 , which was technically a 0-0 until the extra time, but the main match was even more exciting than the 🇧🇪 match).
Fair enough, I think the missed chances were disappointing considering how dominant Belgium should've been in the match
@@vibechek Fair enough, but don't forget Croatia 🇭🇷 was the runner-up ~(if that's how you say it)~ in the last world cup, 2018. They are not easily dominated (in fact, we all felt super proud when our country beat them 3-0 in the semi-finals, it was an unbelievable achievement).
@@vibechek out of curiosity, why did you expect belgium to be dominant?
None of the teams have qualified further so you could expect both of them to go hard, belgium showed almost nothing in previous 2 matches while croatia showed great defence (against morocco) and great offence (against canada). Also at the moment belgium was 3rd place defender and croatia 2nd from previous wc while cro also qualified for nations league finals beating france on the way.
I understand you expecting belgium to win, but dominate?
As an American I liked the 0-0 us England game. I was really nervous before so it was relieving
Saudi Vs Argentina is S tier definitely, the fans of Saudi and Argentina where by far the most in attendance in the World Cup and that match was out of this world good and Saudi ended Argentina’s unbeaten streak which was tied with Italy and they couldn’t break the record also funnily enough they ended up winning the whole thing this game will be remembered for generations
To each their own, with some ratings I agree, with some I don't. In general I think you missed a littl the point of why football is the most popular sport on the planet, the close and tense games that can go either way (even if score is 0:0) or games with a lot of turns are easily more entertaining and fun to watch then 4-5-6 goals difference trashing unless it is a huge surprise (brazil-germany 1:7, spain-nederlands 1:5). The surprise of Morocco dominating Belgium is much better than spain beating CR 5 goals difference. Japan vs spain/germany were amazing games, bra-cro easily one of the best matches of tournament (top 3 probably), the tension behind serbia-switzerland (swi has players of kosovo origin so those 2 teams always have heated matches) and so on.
Not everything is just a lot of goals, germany beat saudi arabia few years ago 8-1 (or smthing) and nobody would vote it as amazing game cause there was 0 tension in it.
The point is, concentrate more on the tension and probability of the game being decided at any moment or turned around more than goals themselves ;)
Watched the final a day before a big exam. Ended up doing poorly on that exam but crushed the course in the next semester. I already forgot what was on that exam but will remember that match forever. Worth it
I also watched final a day before my history exam about french revoluotion.
the 2-3 serbia switzerland definitly s tier it was sensational 2 remontada in the same match both team equalise both teams take the lead what a match
Great vid, loved every minute of it 😊
Brazil vs Croatia should've been atleast A tier IMO
14:24 I even now have shivers
Ofc the final was the best but Netherlands vs Argentina was also amazing, incredible btw are you fun of Bayern cause you was talkin a lot about my man Robert and I'm so glad that you didn't put Poland vs Mexico very low hahha
this dude is underrated
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Ur rankings r mad bro XD I mean to each his own, and obviously I have some bias favoring Ecuador, all three games were thrilling to me, esp Netherlands
but the stalemate games in B tier? Spain/Morocco was NOT a B-tier to me. some stalemates/low-scoring games were very entertaining
7:00 we were going home anyway, we needed 3-0 and we were 2-0. That overtime goal from saudi just sealed the deal.
Also, with 3-1 Mexico went through, so Mexico only needed to score one more goal, no matter if SA scored one or not
Loved the video
i feel a lot of the lower scoring games should have been higher on the list but i can understand why you enjoyed the high scoring bouts
Wow, this video was amazing
Mexico vs Poland was actually memorable, Ochoa saving Lewandowski’s penalty had people hype what are you talking about
Ochoa's save was sick but apart from that it wasn't anything special
Argentinian here, just watching pics from out matches makes my heart rate rise, my god what a crazy cup
Denmark - Tunisia was probably the best 0-0 match I've ever seen
Saudi Arabia winning Argentina is one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history. Well... along with Algeria winning West Germany in 1982, Roger Milla and Cameroon winning World Champions Argentina in 1990 and Senegal winning World Champions France in 2002 opening game. Those are some really crazy results. It seems like the big football giant countries are always the most vulnerable in their opening games.
You forgot to mention how bad the ref was in Argentina vs Holland lol. Still the second best match imo
ref was pretty bad in that game ngl
You could mention ref a lot of times, especially when Argentina played.
@@tonino5268 Sure but it was especially bad that game
@@CertainlyCeramic it was yeah
But also pen decisions vs Poland and vs Croatia are nothing better
@@tonino5268 nah, the only questionable penalty that argentina got was in the match against poland, for me it wasnt, but in the end it was an interpretation from the referee that the play from the gk was risky, so its not that it wasnt unbiased. The rest were all fair
Great idea, good video, but very based rankings. You ranked high scoring matches that were not exciting at all really high, and on the other hand you ranked low the matches that didn't have lots of goals but were exciting and thrilling until the final whistle (eg. Croatia - Brasil, maybe even Croatia - Belgium).
It looks like you ranked many of these based of just goals and some highlights and not the gameplay.
Also you really undervalued Croatia in the ranking.
I would love to see this kind of video for 2018 world cup.
Argentina vs France put me through a different level of stress haha