🇮🇹 Italy 2–0 Ghana 🇬🇭
2006 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇮🇹 Italy value €378M · value #1 · Elo #7
Francesco Totti €37M Gianluigi Buffon €30M Alessandro Nesta €29M 2–0 Italy win
🇬🇭 Ghana value €65M · value #18 · Elo #28
Michael Essien €36M Stephen Appiah €7M Sulley Muntari €6M Goals
Italy ▲ Ghana ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Andrea Pirlo 40' 40 Pirlo Vincenzo Iaquinta 83' 83 Iaquinta
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇮🇹 Italy
Gianluigi Buffon · GK 1 Buffon Alessandro Nesta · CB 13 Nesta Cristian Zaccardo · RB 2 Zaccardo Fabio Grosso · LB 3 Grosso Fabio Cannavaro · CB 5 Cannavaro Francesco Totti · AM 10 Totti Simone Perrotta · RM 20 Perrotta Andrea Pirlo · CM 21 Pirlo Daniele De Rossi · LM 4 Rossi Alberto Gilardino · CF 11 Gilardino Luca Toni · CF 9 Toni 🇬🇭 Ghana
Richard Kingson · GK 22 Kingson John Paintsil · RB 15 Paintsil Samuel Kuffour · CB 4 Kuffour John Mensah · CB 5 Mensah Emmanuel Pappoe · LB 6 Pappoe Stephen Appiah · RM 10 Appiah Sulley Muntari · LM 11 Muntari Eric Addo · CM 18 Addo Michael Essien · CM 8 Essien Matthew Amoah · CF 14 Amoah Asamoah Gyan · CF 3 Gyan 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)
🇮🇹 Italy 78.8% draw 16.0% 5.2% Ghana 🇬🇭
Model P(result)
78.8%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#448
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.34
−log₂ P(observed)
Italy's run W 🇬🇭 2–0 Ghana, Group D 🇺🇸 1–1 United States, Group W 🇨🇿 2–0 Czech Republic, Group W 🇦🇺 1–0 Australia, Round of 16 W 🇺🇦 3–0 Ukraine, Quarter-final W 🇩🇪 2–0 Germany, Semi-final D 🇫🇷 1–1 France, Final Ghana's run L 🇮🇹 0–2 Italy, Group W 🇨🇿 2–0 Czech Republic, Group W 🇺🇸 2–1 United States, Group L 🇧🇷 0–3 Brazil, Round of 16
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.