🇸🇪 Sweden 2–1 Nigeria 🇳🇬
2002 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
Goals
Sweden ▲ Nigeria ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Henrik Larsson 35' (pen) 35 Larsson Henrik Larsson 63' (pen) 63 Larsson Julius Aghahowa 27' 27 Aghahowa
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇸🇪 Sweden
Magnus Hedman · GK 1 Hedman Andreas Jakobsson · CB 15 Jakobsson Teddy Lučić · LB 16 Lučić Olof Mellberg · RB 2 Mellberg Johan Mjällby · CB 4 Mjällby Tobias Linderoth · CM 6 Linderoth Niclas Alexandersson · RM 7 Alexandersson Anders Svensson · CM 8 Svensson Freddie Ljungberg · LM 9 Ljungberg Marcus Allbäck · CF 10 Allbäck Henrik Larsson · CF 11 Larsson 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Ike Shorunmu · GK 1 Shorunmu Ifeanyi Udeze · LB 14 Udeze Joseph Yobo · RB 2 Yobo Isaac Okoronkwo · CB 5 Okoronkwo Taribo West · CB 6 West Jay-Jay Okocha · RM 10 Okocha Justice Christopher · CM 15 Christopher John Utaka · AM 21 Utaka Celestine Babayaro · LM 3 Babayaro Julius Aghahowa · CF 17 Aghahowa 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)
🇸🇪 Sweden 53.9% draw 25.0% 21.1% Nigeria 🇳🇬
Model P(result)
53.8%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#286
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.89
−log₂ P(observed)
Sweden's run D 🏴 1–1 England, Group W 🇳🇬 2–1 Nigeria, Group D 🇦🇷 1–1 Argentina, Group L 🇸🇳 1–2 Senegal, Round of 16 Nigeria's run L 🇦🇷 0–1 Argentina, Group L 🇸🇪 1–2 Sweden, Group D 🏴 0–0 England, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.