France and Argentina will meet in the round of 16 of the 2018 World Cup in the city of Kazan, in the match that will open this phase of the World Cup. Surely this is a duel that both heavyweights would have wanted to avoid due to the quality of the rival. After winning their first two games by a goal of difference, France had no major problems to draw in their final match against Denmark (0-0) as they entered the already classified match. The tie of 'Les Bleus' meant the seventh match undefeated (W5, D2) for France and also recorded only one loss in the last 15 (W10, D4, L1). In those 15 matches, France have allowed only 12 goals against and have left their goal unbeaten seven times. Argentina had to sweat to get to this instance. After a draw and a loss, Argentina had to wait until the 86th minute to score the winning goal against Nigeria (2-1) in their final game of the group stage to secure their place in the next phase. All the problems that Argentina has had in the group stage are the best example of the time the team is going through albiceleste. He has won only three of his last seven games (W3, D1, L3) and has received 15 goals in that period. Despite the rich history that both teams have in the final stages of World Cups (France 15/21, Argentina 17/21), they have only played twice and Argentina was left with the win in both games: 1930 and 1978. In total they have played 10 times and the record shows six wins for Argentina, one for France and three draws 0-0.