🇲🇽 Mexico 3–1 Iran 🇮🇷
2006 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇲🇽 Mexico value €45M · value #20 · Elo #13
Rafael Márquez €16M Gerardo Torrado €2M Jared Borgetti €2M 3–1 Mexico win
🇮🇷 Iran value €26M · value #24 · Elo #12
Mehdi Mahdavikia €6M Ali Karimi €4M Vahid Hashemian €2M Goals
Mexico ▲ Iran ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Omar Bravo 28' 28 Bravo Omar Bravo 76' 76 Bravo Sinha 79' 79 Sinha Yahya Golmohammadi 36' 36 Golmohammadi
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇲🇽 Mexico
Oswaldo Sánchez · GK 1 Sánchez Mario Méndez · RB 16 Méndez Carlos Salcido · LB 3 Salcido Rafael Márquez · CB 4 Márquez Ricardo Osorio · CB 5 Osorio Guillermo Franco · LF 10 Franco Gonzalo Pineda · LM 14 Pineda Omar Bravo · RF 19 Bravo Gerardo Torrado · CM 6 Torrado Pável Pardo · RM 8 Pardo Jared Borgetti · CF 9 Borgetti 🇮🇷 Iran
Ebrahim Mirzapour · GK 1 Mirzapour Hossein Kaebi · RB 13 Kaebi Mohammad Nosrati · LB 20 Nosrati Yahya Golmohammadi · CB 4 Golmohammadi Rahman Rezaei · CB 5 Rezaei Andranik Teymourian · CM 14 Teymourian Mehdi Mahdavikia · RM 2 Mahdavikia Javad Nekounam · CM 6 Nekounam Ali Karimi · LM 8 Karimi Ali Daei · CF 10 Daei Vahid Hashemian · CF 9 Hashemian 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)
🇲🇽 Mexico 36.1% draw 27.0% 36.9% Iran 🇮🇷
Model P(result)
36.1%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#199
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
1.47
−log₂ P(observed)
Mexico's run W 🇮🇷 3–1 Iran, Group D 🇦🇴 0–0 Angola, Group L 🇵🇹 1–2 Portugal, Group L 🇦🇷 1–2 Argentina, Round of 16 Iran's run L 🇲🇽 1–3 Mexico, Group L 🇵🇹 0–2 Portugal, Group D 🇦🇴 1–1 Angola, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.