“Is France beautiful champion? Well, we are world champions and will be on top of the world for four years.”

MOSCOW, Russia — Didier Deschamps’ France side has not always won admirers for its way of playing at this World Cup, but that will not matter to the hundreds of thousands celebrating on the streets back home after their finals victory over Croatia.

France won 4-2 at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on Sunday with star men Antoine Griezmann, Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappe all scoring as they lifted the trophy for the second time in their history.

They are the first team to score four times in the finals since Pele’s great Brazil side beat Italy 4-1 in Mexico in 1970 and the match was the highest-scoring World Cup finals since England’s 4-2 victory against West Germany back in 1966.

It was achieved with a brilliantly talented set of players, embodied by 19-year-old Mbappe, not even born when France last won it in 1998 and now the youngest player to score in World Cup finals since Pele in 1958.

He had already lit up this tournament with his electric performance against Argentina, scoring twice in his side’s 4-3 win in Kazan in the Last 16.

However, these two high-scoring encounters do not provide an accurate picture of the way Deschamps’ team has played in this competition.

In their five other games they scored a total of six goals, including two Griezmann penalties and one own goal. They were also involved in the only goalless draw of the tournament, against Denmark in their last group outing.

Against Croatia, Griezmann’s penalty that gave them a 2-1 lead in the 38th minute came from their first shot on goal of the game, with their opener a Mario Mandzukic own goal.

France finished with just 39 percent of the possession.

With a shrug, Deschamps asked after the game: “Is France beautiful champion? Well, we are world champions and will be on top of the world for four years.”