FIFA World Cup 26™: What to look out for in Spain v Argentina 🇪🇸🇦🇷 | OneFootball

New York New Jersey Stadium is the venue for the FIFA World Cup 26™ final as European champions Spain aim to dethrone the holders Argentina.

This is everything you need to know about it.

Who is playing today? 👀

The 2026 World Cup™ final is set and for the first time sees the reigning champions of Europe face the defending South American champions.

Spain came through a difficult semi-final by nullifying the attacking threat of France as goals in each half from Mikel Oyarzabal and Pedro Porro fired them into their first World Cup™ final since 2010.

Argentina showed their resilience again against England, fighting back from a goal down with five minutes remaining as late strikes from Enzo Fernández and Lautaro Martínez punched their ticket to New York New Jersey Stadium.

They now aim to become the first team since Brazil in 1962 to successfully defend their world title.

Players to watch 🔥

For Spain, they have one of the tournament's top attacking talents at their disposal in Lamine Yamal, who has a World Cup 26™ Creativity Score of 7.47 in the FIFA Power Rankings - powered by Aramco.

Although his unpredictability and dribbling make him a big danger to Argentina's back-line, it may be Spain's own defensive stalwarts who could provide them with the biggest key to victory.

Captain Rodri, aiming to become only the 10th player to win the World Cup™, Champions League and Ballon d'Or, has the competition's best Defending Score of 8.03, while team-mate Pedro Porro is just behind him in second place with a score of 7.70, with Pau Cubarsí making it a podium position clean sweep with 7.50 for the tournament as a whole.

Argentina do have their own top performers in a defensive sense too, with Cristian Romero topping their Defending Score, his 7.34 putting him in fifth place for all players this summer.

But much of their success will come down to the performance of their skipper. Lionel Messi is coming off another decisive performance in which he provided two semi-final assists.

They took his tally in that statistic this summer to four, securing him the competition's best Creativity Score with 8.41, while he also has the second-highest Attacking Score for this World Cup™ with a score of 8.63, helped by his eight goals so far.

Must-watch video 🎥

These scenes of Argentinean celebration from a moving train after their semi-final win are something very special.

Fun facts 📊

Our prediction 🔮