The 2022 World Cup final lived up to its significant billing as Argentina and France played out one of the greatest football matches of all time at the Lusail Iconic Stadium in Qatar.
The two stars of the show took centre stage too as Lionel Messi scored twice and Kylian Mbappe went one better with a hat-trick, just the second ever in a men's World Cup final.
However, it was Messi who claimed the biggest prize as he finally got his hands on the World Cup trophy, Argentina winning 4-2 in a penalty shootout after a classic 3-3 draw over 120 minutes.
Messi's two goals took him up to 13 at World Cups in total, surpassing Brazilian legend Pele and moving level with France's Just Fontaine as the joint-fourth highest scorers in the tournament's history.
Mbappe, meanwhile, became only the 14th player to reach double figures in World Cups and, at the age of just 23, has now scored the same number of World Cup goals as Pele, and more in World Cup finals than any other player.
The Frenchman now needs just five more future World Cup goals to become the all-time leading scoring in the competition, having claimed the Golden Boot with his eight strikes in Qatar.
Here, Sports Mole takes a look at the latest standings in the all-time World Cup goalscoring list following Sunday's breathless epic.
1. Miroslav Klose (Germany)
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Goals: 16
Appearances: 24
Ratio: 0.67
Tournaments: 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014
2. Ronaldo (Brazil)
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Goals: 15
Appearances: 19
Ratio: 0.79
Tournaments: 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
3. Gerd Muller (West Germany)
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Goals: 14
Appearances: 13
Ratio: 1.08
Tournaments: 1970, 1974
4. Just Fontaine (France)
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Goals: 13
Appearances: 6
Ratio: 2.17
Tournaments: 1958
5. Lionel Messi (Argentina)
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Goals: 13
Appearances: 26
Ratio: 0.50
Tournaments: 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022
6. Pele (Brazil)
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Goals: 12
Appearances: 14
Ratio: 0.86
Tournaments: 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970
7. Kylian Mbappe (France)
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Goals: 12
Appearances: 14
Ratio: 0.86
Tournaments: 2018, 2022
8. Sandor Kocsis (Hungary)
Goals: 11
Appearances: 5
Ratio: 2.20
Tournaments: 1954
9. Jurgen Klinsmann (West Germany & Germany)
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Goals: 11
Appearances: 17
Ratio: 0.65
Tournaments: 1990, 1994, 1998
10. Helmut Rahn (West Germany)
Goals: 10
Appearances: 10
Ratio: 1.00
Tournaments: 1954, 1958
11. Gary Lineker (England)
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Goals: 10
Appearances: 12
Ratio: 0.83
Tournaments: 1986, 1990
12. Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina)
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Goals: 10
Appearances: 12
Ratio: 0.83
Tournaments: 1994, 1998, 2002
13. Teofilo Cubillas (Peru)
Goals: 10
Appearances: 13
Ratio: 0.77
Tournaments: 1970, 1978, 1982
14. Thomas Muller (Germany)
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Goals: 10
Appearances: 19
Ratio: 0.53
Tournaments: 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022
15. Grzegorz Lato (Poland)
Goals: 10
Appearances: 20
Ratio: 0.50
Tournaments: 1974, 1978, 1982
Barney Corkhill
