🇦🇺 Australia 3–1 Japan 🇯🇵
2006 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇦🇺 Australia value €58M · value #19 · Elo #19
Tim Cahill €8M Harry Kewell €6M Mark Viduka €6M 3–1 Australia win
🇯🇵 Japan value €43M · value #21 · Elo #21
Shunsuke Nakamura €6M Shinji Ono €4M Hidetoshi Nakata €4M Goals
Australia ▲ Japan ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' 105' 120' Tim Cahill 84' 84 Cahill Tim Cahill 89' 89 Cahill John Aloisi 90+2' 92 Aloisi Shunsuke Nakamura 26' 26 Nakamura
Starting line-ups
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🇦🇺 Australia
Mark Schwarzer · GK 1 Schwarzer Scott Chipperfield · CB 14 Chipperfield Lucas Neill · CB 2 Neill Craig Moore · CB 3 Moore Vince Grella · CM 13 Grella Luke Wilkshire · RM 20 Wilkshire Mark Bresciano · CM 23 Bresciano Jason Culina · LM 5 Culina Brett Emerton · CM 7 Emerton Harry Kewell · CF 10 Kewell Mark Viduka · CF 9 Viduka 🇯🇵 Japan
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi · GK 23 Kawaguchi Keisuke Tsuboi · CB 19 Tsuboi Yuji Nakazawa · CB 22 Nakazawa Tsuneyasu Miyamoto · CB 5 Miyamoto Shunsuke Nakamura · AM 10 Nakamura Alex · LM 14 Alex Takashi Fukunishi · CM 15 Fukunishi Yūichi Komano · RM 3 Komano Hidetoshi Nakata · CM 7 Nakata Atsushi Yanagisawa · CF 13 Yanagisawa Naohiro Takahara · CF 9 Takahara 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)
🇦🇺 Australia 37.8% draw 27.0% 35.2% Japan 🇯🇵
Model P(result)
37.8%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#206
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
1.40
−log₂ P(observed)
Australia's run W 🇯🇵 3–1 Japan, Group L 🇧🇷 0–2 Brazil, Group D 🇭🇷 2–2 Croatia, Group L 🇮🇹 0–1 Italy, Round of 16 Japan's run L 🇦🇺 1–3 Australia, Group D 🇭🇷 0–0 Croatia, Group L 🇧🇷 1–4 Brazil, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.