🇭🇷 Croatia 0–0 Japan 🇯🇵
2006 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇭🇷 Croatia value €94M · value #14 · Elo #14
Ivan Klasnić €12M Josip Šimunić €8M Dado Pršo €8M 0–0 draw
🇯🇵 Japan value €43M · value #21 · Elo #21
Shunsuke Nakamura €6M Shinji Ono €4M Hidetoshi Nakata €4M Starting line-ups
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🇭🇷 Croatia
Stipe Pletikosa · GK 1 Pletikosa Josip Šimunić · CB 3 Šimunić Robert Kovač · CB 4 Kovač Dario Šimić · CB 7 Šimić Niko Kovač · CM 10 Kovač Niko Kranjčar · AM 19 Kranjčar Darijo Srna · RM 2 Srna Igor Tudor · CM 5 Tudor Marko Babić · LM 8 Babić Ivan Klasnić · CF 17 Klasnić Dado Pršo · CF 9 Pršo 🇯🇵 Japan
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi · GK 23 Kawaguchi Alex · LB 14 Alex Akira Kaji · RB 21 Kaji Yuji Nakazawa · CB 22 Nakazawa Tsuneyasu Miyamoto · CB 5 Miyamoto Shunsuke Nakamura · AM 10 Nakamura Takashi Fukunishi · CM 15 Fukunishi Hidetoshi Nakata · RM 7 Nakata Mitsuo Ogasawara · LM 8 Ogasawara 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)
🇭🇷 Croatia 47.9% draw 26.1% 26.0% Japan 🇯🇵
Model P(result)
26.1%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#129
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
1.94
−log₂ P(observed)
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