🇩🇪 Germany 8–0 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
2002 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
Goals
Germany ▲ Saudi Arabia ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' 105' 120' Miroslav Klose 20' 20 Klose Miroslav Klose 25' 25 Klose Michael Ballack 40' 40 Ballack Carsten Jancker 45+1' 46 Jancker Miroslav Klose 70' 70 Klose Thomas Linke 73' 73 Linke Oliver Bierhoff 84' 84 Bierhoff Bernd Schneider 90+1' 91 Schneider
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇩🇪 Germany
Oliver Kahn · GK 1 Kahn Thomas Linke · CB 2 Linke Christoph Metzelder · CB 21 Metzelder Carsten Ramelow · CB 5 Ramelow Michael Ballack · AM 13 Ballack Bernd Schneider · CM 19 Schneider Torsten Frings · RM 22 Frings Christian Ziege · LM 6 Ziege Dietmar Hamann · CM 8 Hamann Miroslav Klose · CF 11 Klose Carsten Jancker · CF 9 Jancker 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Al-Deayea · GK 1 Al-Deayea Ahmed Al-Dokhi · RB 12 Al-Dokhi Hussein Abdulghani · LB 13 Abdulghani Redha Tukar · CB 3 Tukar Abdullah Zubromawi · CB 4 Zubromawi Khamis Al-Dosari · CM 16 Al-Dosari Abdullah Al-Waked · CM 17 Al-Waked Nawaf Al-Temyat · LM 18 Al-Temyat Mohammed Noor · RM 8 Noor Al-Hasan Al-Yami · CF 20 Al-Yami Sami Al-Jaber · CF 9 Al-Jaber Players sit in vertical bands (GK · defence · midfield · attack) by their listed position — no
left/right placement is inferred. Order within a band is squad-sheet order, not a formation.
Pre-match model (Elo→Poisson, 90-min W/D/L)
🇩🇪 Germany 61.4% draw 23.0% 15.6% Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Model P(result)
61.4%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#336
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.70
−log₂ P(observed)
Germany's run W 🇸🇦 8–0 Saudi Arabia, Group D 🇮🇪 1–1 Republic of Ireland, Group W 🇨🇲 2–0 Cameroon, Group W 🇵🇾 1–0 Paraguay, Round of 16 W 🇺🇸 1–0 United States, Quarter-final W 🇰🇷 1–0 South Korea, Semi-final L 🇧🇷 0–2 Brazil, Final Saudi Arabia's run L 🇩🇪 0–8 Germany, Group L 🇨🇲 0–1 Cameroon, Group L 🇮🇪 0–3 Republic of Ireland, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.