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Milestone· Golden Boot

Mbappé wins the Golden Boot with 10 goals — Messi finished on 8 after failing to score in the final.

Milestone· All-time scoring record

Mbappé finishes on 22 career World Cup goals — one clear of Messi (21), the new all-time record.

Milestone· Spain, World Champions

Spain beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time to lift the World Cup — their second title, sixteen years after 2010.

Milestone· Rodri — Golden Ball

Rodri wins the Golden Ball as the tournament's official best player.

Milestone· Simón — Golden Glove

Simón wins the Golden Glove — seven clean sheets in eight starts, one goal conceded across the tournament.

Milestone· The only goal of the final

Ferrán Torres' 106th-minute strike — the only goal of the final and the winner that decided the World Cup.

Milestone· Double figures

Mbappé's 10 goals — the first double-figure World Cup haul since Gerd Müller in 1970. Only Fontaine (13) and Kocsis (11) have scored more in a single edition.

Milestone· Pelé's record broken

Michael Olise's 7 assists broke Pelé's 56-year-old single-tournament record of 6.

Milestone· An England record

Bellingham's seventh goal — a new England record for one World Cup — sealed bronze, England's best finish since 1966.

Milestone· The wildest bronze

France 4–6 England: ten goals, the highest-scoring third-place match in World Cup history.

Milestone· The top four, exactly

The world's top four ranked sides — Argentina, Spain, France, England — are the tournament's top four finishers.

Milestone· All-time World Cup assist record

Messi's two semi-final assists take him to 12 career World Cup assists — four clear of Maradona, the most on record since 1966.

Milestone· Extra-time kings

Argentina's quarter-final was their 13th World Cup match to reach extra time — more than any nation — and their record in them is now 11 wins.

Milestone· The comeback run

Argentina trailed in three of their four knockout ties and won every one.

Milestone· Streak ends at nine

Messi's record run of scoring in nine consecutive World Cup matches ended in the quarter-final — where he assisted the opener instead.

Milestone· Six-World-Cup scorer

Ronaldo becomes the first man to score in six World Cups.

Milestone· Fastest hat-trick

Dembélé's 32-minute hat-trick vs Norway — second-fastest in World Cup history.

Milestone· Six consecutive clean sheets

Spain: first team ever with six consecutive World Cup clean sheets across editions — the run ended by De Ketelaere in the quarter-final.

Milestone· Bench winners, back-to-back

Merino scores off the bench in back-to-back knockout wins — the winner vs Portugal and the winner vs Belgium.

Milestone· Saves in a single match

Eloy Room's 15 saves vs Ecuador — one shy of Tim Howard's 2014 single-match record.

Milestone· POM from the losing side

Orlando Gill wins Player of the Match twice from the losing/eliminated side — both in knockout defeats.