The World Cup final lived up to the tournament’s themes as a penalty and an own goal helped France to victory.
Mario Mandzukic inadvertently nodded Antoine Griezmann’s free-kick past Danijel Subasic to open the scoring with the first own goal in a World Cup final – but the 12th in this tournament, doubling the previous record.
The introduction of VAR means penalties have been a constant and Griezmann tucked away his third and the 22nd successful spot-kick of the tournament, from 29 awarded.
There were also more goals in the final five minutes of games than ever before and here, Press Association Sport takes a look at the key data points and how they affected a dramatic tournament.
Own goals
(PA Graphic)
Aziz Bouhaddouz (Morocco) v Iran, June 15
Aziz Behich (Australia) v France, June 16
Oghenekaro Etebo (Nigeria) v Croatia, June 16
Thiago Cionek (Poland) v Senegal, June 19
Ahmed Fathi (Egypt) v Russia, June 19
Denis Cheryshev (Russia) v Uruguay, June 25
Edson Alvarez (Mexico) v Sweden, June 27
Yann Sommer (Switzerland) v Costa Rica, June 27
Yassine Meriah (Tunisia) v Panama, June 28
Sergei Ignashevich (Russia) v Spain, July 1
Fernandinho (Brazil) v Belgium, July 6
Mario Mandzukic (Croatia) v France, July 15
Penalties
(PA Graphic)
Set-pieces
Kieran Trippier, centre, scores England’s ninth set-piece goal of the World Cup (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Discipline
Colombia’s Carlos Sanchez, second left, is booked against England (Aaron Chown/PA)
Carlos Sanchez (Colombia) v Japan, June 19
Jerome Boateng (Germany) v Sweden, June 23
Igor Smolnikov (Russia) v Uruguay, June 25
Michael Lang (Switzerland) v Sweden, July 3
Late goals
(PA Graphic)
Penalty shoot-outs
Croatia, led by Ivan Rakitic, left, celebrated back-to-back shoot-out wins (Manu Fernandez/AP)
