For over an hour, when Argentina were leading and dominating, the Champs-Élysées remained quiet, much too quiet.
The most beautiful avenue in the world is the meeting place when the Blues win and necessarily when it is dark, it's a bad sign.
But as in Doha, everything changed when Kylian Mbappé came out of his box twice.
The Champs woke up, the crowd started singing, taking out the blue-white-red flags.
The party was just waiting to get started.
“We were in the metro, says 17-year-old Sami who came from Val-d'Oise for the occasion.
We heard that it was marking then, we went out and ran up the Champs.
It's incredible.
We almost missed this atmosphere.
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While the atmosphere was so far rather gloomy on the Champs Élysée, the crowd ignites when the blues equalize the score 🇫🇷@le_Parisien pic.twitter.com/5kEPMLDwR8
– Inès Chaïeb (@chb__ines) December 18, 2022
At the time of the extension, the crowd continued to invest the center of the capital.
Everyone has their eyes glued to the phones to follow the game.
We shout, we encourage.
This is the start of madness.
Small crowd movements are observed on these Champs-Élysées already well filled in the upper part but nothing serious.
Some fireworks and smoke bombs are launched.
In case of victory, between 200 and 500,000 people are expected on the Champs.
Perhaps more given the incredible storyline of the finale.