🇦🇷 Argentina 1–0 Nigeria 🇳🇬
2002 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
Goals
Argentina ▲ Nigeria ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Gabriel Batistuta 63' 63 Batistuta
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇦🇷 Argentina
Pablo Cavallero · GK 12 Cavallero Diego Placente · CB 13 Placente Juan Pablo Sorín · LWB 3 Sorín Mauricio Pochettino · CB 4 Pochettino Walter Samuel · CB 6 Samuel Javier Zanetti · RWB 8 Zanetti Ariel Ortega · RF 10 Ortega Juan Sebastián Verón · CM 11 Verón Diego Simeone · CM 14 Simeone Claudio López · LF 7 López Gabriel Batistuta · CF 9 Batistuta 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Ike Shorunmu · GK 1 Shorunmu Joseph Yobo · RB 2 Yobo Celestine Babayaro · LB 3 Babayaro Isaac Okoronkwo · CB 5 Okoronkwo Taribo West · CB 6 West Jay-Jay Okocha · RM 10 Okocha Garba Lawal · LM 11 Lawal Efe Sodje · DM 16 Sodje Julius Aghahowa · CF 17 Aghahowa Nwankwo Kanu · SS 4 Kanu Bartholomew Ogbeche · CF 9 Ogbeche 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)
🇦🇷 Argentina 71.7% draw 19.3% 9.0% Nigeria 🇳🇬
Model P(result)
71.7%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#405
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.48
−log₂ P(observed)
Argentina's run W 🇳🇬 1–0 Nigeria, Group L 🏴 0–1 England, Group D 🇸🇪 1–1 Sweden, Group Nigeria's run L 🇦🇷 0–1 Argentina, Group L 🇸🇪 1–2 Sweden, Group D 🏴 0–0 England, Group
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