Spain 1-0 Argentina Player Ratings: Rodri 8.5/10 Commanding Final Masterclass as Ferran Torres Extra-Time Goal Crowns Spain World Champions

New York New Jersey Stadium, the venue that hosted Brazil's opening draw against Morocco and is now forever immortalised as the ground where the Spain national football team were crowned world champions for the second time, witnessed the most dramatic and historically significant World Cup final since Germany's extra-time victory in 2014. For fans tracking the full magnitude of this extraordinary achievement, Spain became only the fourth nation in history to win the FIFA World Cup on American soil, their seventh consecutive knockout victory confirming the most dominant and statistically complete World Cup campaign any European nation has produced across the tournament's entire modern era.

Rodri's commanding midfield authority was the defining tactical foundation of Spain's entire tournament run, and nowhere was that individual control more consequential, more composed, and more historically significant than across 120 gruelling extra-time minutes against a defending champion Argentina side containing Messi, Lautaro, and Alvarez simultaneously performing at their individual peaks. The Manchester City midfielder's complete suppression of De Paul's distribution and Mac Allister's creative attempts confirmed why De la Fuente's tactical system functions so efficiently and so completely when its most important individual component operates at this extraordinary level.

Enzo Fernandez's 90+3rd-minute second yellow card, his clumsy challenge on Yamal earning the inevitable booking that reduced the Argentina national football team to 10 men precisely as the contest entered its most tense and consequential phase, transformed the entire extra-time landscape, gifting Spain the numerical advantage that ultimately provided the decisive territorial and attacking platform that Ferran Torres converted with the composed authority and clinical finishing of a player who had waited his entire international career for precisely this kind of defining personal moment.

Torres' 106th-minute winner, Yamal's perfectly weighted diagonal delivery finding the Valencia forward's intelligent near-post run before he redirected composedly past Emiliano Martinez with a composed first-time finish, sent Spain's supporters into the most euphoric celebrations witnessed at a World Cup final since South Africa 2010, completing a tournament that Pedri, Yamal, Porro, Merino, and Rodri had collectively and individually defined as one of the finest collective performances any nation has produced across the 2026 World Cup's extraordinary and emotionally unforgettable seven-week journey. Check out the Spain vs Argentina player ratings.

Spain National Football Team Player Ratings vs Argentina

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Man of the Match

Sportsdunia's Man of the Match goes to Rodri for his all-round performance.

Worst Performer

Enzo Fernandez was the worst performer.