🇩🇪 Germany 4–2 Costa Rica 🇨🇷
2006 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇩🇪 Germany value €181M · value #9 · Elo #10
Michael Ballack €35M Miroslav Klose €20M Lukas Podolski €12M 4–2 Germany win
🇨🇷 Costa Rica value €16M · value #29 · Elo #25
Gilberto Martínez €3M Walter Centeno €2M Paulo Wanchope €2M Goals
Germany ▲ Costa Rica ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Philipp Lahm 6' 6 Lahm Miroslav Klose 17' 17 Klose Miroslav Klose 61' 61 Klose Torsten Frings 87' 87 Frings Paulo Wanchope 12' 12 Wanchope Paulo Wanchope 73' 73 Wanchope
Starting line-ups
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🇩🇪 Germany
Jens Lehmann · GK 1 Lehmann Philipp Lahm · LB 16 Lahm Per Mertesacker · CB 17 Mertesacker Christoph Metzelder · CB 21 Metzelder Arne Friedrich · RB 3 Friedrich Tim Borowski · CM 18 Borowski Bernd Schneider · RM 19 Schneider Bastian Schweinsteiger · LM 7 Schweinsteiger Torsten Frings · CM 8 Frings Miroslav Klose · CF 11 Klose Lukas Podolski · CF 20 Podolski 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
José Porras · GK 18 Porras Leonardo González · LB 12 González Douglas Sequeira · CB 20 Sequeira Luis Marín · CB 3 Marín Michael Umaña · CB 4 Umaña Gilberto Martínez · RB 5 Martínez Walter Centeno · CM 10 Centeno Danny Fonseca · CM 6 Fonseca Mauricio Solís · CM 8 Solís Rónald Gómez · CF 11 Gómez Paulo Wanchope · CF 9 Wanchope 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 61.2% draw 23.1% 15.7% Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Model P(result)
61.3%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#335
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.71
−log₂ P(observed)
Germany's run W 🇨🇷 4–2 Costa Rica, Group W 🇵🇱 1–0 Poland, Group W 🇪🇨 3–0 Ecuador, Group W 🇸🇪 2–0 Sweden, Round of 16 D 🇦🇷 1–1 Argentina, Quarter-final L 🇮🇹 0–2 Italy, Semi-final W 🇵🇹 3–1 Portugal, Third place Costa Rica's run L 🇩🇪 2–4 Germany, Group L 🇪🇨 0–3 Ecuador, Group L 🇵🇱 1–2 Poland, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup