🇧🇪 Belgium 3–2 Russia 🇷🇺
2002 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
Goals
Belgium ▲ Russia ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Johan Walem 7' 7 Walem Wesley Sonck 78' 78 Sonck Marc Wilmots 82' 82 Wilmots Vladimir Beschastnykh 52' 52 Beschastnykh Dmitri Sychev 88' 88 Sychev
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇧🇪 Belgium
Geert De Vlieger · GK 1 Vlieger Jacky Peeters · RB 15 Peeters Daniel Van Buyten · CB 16 Buyten Glen De Boeck · CB 3 Boeck Nico Van Kerckhoven · LB 5 Kerckhoven Johan Walem · CM 10 Walem Gert Verheyen · RM 11 Verheyen Yves Vanderhaeghe · CM 18 Vanderhaeghe Bart Goor · LM 8 Goor Mbo Mpenza · CF 22 Mpenza Marc Wilmots · CF 7 Wilmots 🇷🇺 Russia
Ruslan Nigmatullin · GK 1 Nigmatullin Yuri Kovtun · LB 2 Kovtun Yuri Nikiforov · CB 3 Nikiforov Andrei Solomatin · RB 5 Solomatin Viktor Onopko · CB 7 Onopko Dmitri Alenichev · LM 15 Alenichev Dmitri Khokhlov · DM 21 Khokhlov Alexey Smertin · CM 4 Smertin Valery Karpin · RM 8 Karpin Yegor Titov · CM 9 Titov Vladimir Beschastnykh · CF 11 Beschastnykh 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)
🇧🇪 Belgium 39.9% draw 26.9% 33.2% Russia 🇷🇺
Model P(result)
39.8%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#220
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
1.33
−log₂ P(observed)
Belgium's run D 🇯🇵 2–2 Japan, Group D 🇹🇳 1–1 Tunisia, Group W 🇷🇺 3–2 Russia, Group L 🇧🇷 0–2 Brazil, Round of 16 Russia's run W 🇹🇳 2–0 Tunisia, Group L 🇯🇵 0–1 Japan, Group L 🇧🇪 2–3 Belgium, Group
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