Croatia dominated the entire match with 61% possession and outclassed France today.
Common people think that dominating a game or playing with nice style is winning, you wrong; winning is scoring more times than the other.
Look at the all-winning Italian teams in the 80's-90's, one goal then they lock the their defense and shut the game, the adversaries keep wasting their strength to score back then they get counter-attacked and killed ((this was called "catenaccio"), ; this is professional football, not exhibition game. Ball Possession is useless if you can't score, i rather have 1% possession and 1 goal than 99% and score nothing.
France were lucky in 1st half, but their were professional, controlled the advantages they had and put Croatia in a coffin in the 2nd half.
Croatia learned it the hard way,
Not saying in 2nd half we saw the results of all those extra-time games they did, they get burned by fatigue; then get owned 2 times...there is no excuses for that. Croatia got lucky to get there in the first place anyway.
So, it was the referee who basically won the cup for France in the end.
the penalty was deserved, he blocked the ball with his hands , the hand went to the ball not the opposite, you can watch all the replays.
Btw, we had some courtesy, we give them back the own-goal LOL