🇪🇸 Spain 3–2 South Africa 🇿🇦
2002 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
Goals
Spain ▲ South Africa ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Raúl 4' 4 Raúl Gaizka Mendieta 45+1' 46 Mendieta Raúl 56' 56 Raúl Benni McCarthy 31' 31 McCarthy Lucas Radebe 53' 53 Radebe
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇪🇸 Spain
Iker Casillas · GK 1 Casillas Enrique Romero · LB 15 Romero Curro Torres · RB 2 Torres Miguel Ángel Nadal · CB 20 Nadal Iván Helguera · CB 4 Helguera David Albelda · CM 14 Albelda Gaizka Mendieta · LM 16 Mendieta Xavi · CM 19 Xavi Joaquín · RM 22 Joaquín Raúl · CF 7 Raúl Fernando Morientes · CF 9 Morientes 🇿🇦 South Africa
Andre Arendse · GK 16 Arendse Lucas Radebe · CB 19 Radebe Cyril Nzama · RB 2 Nzama Bradley Carnell · LB 3 Carnell Aaron Mokoena · CB 4 Mokoena Teboho Mokoena · CM 12 Mokoena Sibusiso Zuma · RM 15 Zuma MacBeth Sibaya · CM 6 Sibaya Quinton Fortune · LM 7 Fortune Siyabonga Nomvethe · CF 14 Nomvethe Benni McCarthy · CF 17 McCarthy 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)
🇪🇸 Spain 77.6% draw 16.6% 5.8% South Africa 🇿🇦
Model P(result)
77.6%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#437
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.37
−log₂ P(observed)
Spain's run W 🇸🇮 3–1 Slovenia, Group W 🇵🇾 3–1 Paraguay, Group W 🇿🇦 3–2 South Africa, Group D 🇮🇪 1–1 Republic of Ireland, Round of 16 D 🇰🇷 0–0 South Korea, Quarter-final South Africa's run D 🇵🇾 2–2 Paraguay, Group W 🇸🇮 1–0 Slovenia, Group L 🇪🇸 2–3 Spain, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.