Good morning again everyone and and welcome along to this Friday’s World Cup live blog, the latest of our daily World Cup blogs and where we’ll bring you all the latest news from Qatar as we now await Sunday’s final between Argentina and France.
The final is now two days away, and the third-place playoff is on Saturday, so there’s plenty left to look forward to in terms of importance if not quantity.
So, we’ll bring you all of the reaction to those matches and much more on this live blog. By keeping this tab open throughout the day, you’ll stay up to date with all of this Friday’s World Cup news.
2022 World Cup: Live updates for Friday, December 16
So this, then, is our World Cup blog for Friday, December 16. With no games today or tomorrow, we’ll be keeping across all of the day’s World Cup news, with a special focus on the two finalists.