🇧🇷 Brazil 4–1 Japan 🇯🇵
2006 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇧🇷 Brazil value €365M · value #2 · Elo #1
Ronaldinho €70M Kaká €35M Adriano €32M 4–1 Brazil win
🇯🇵 Japan value €43M · value #21 · Elo #21
Shunsuke Nakamura €6M Shinji Ono €4M Hidetoshi Nakata €4M Goals
Brazil ▲ Japan ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Ronaldo 45+1' 46 Ronaldo Juninho Pernambucano 53' 53 Pernambucano Gilberto 59' 59 Gilberto Ronaldo 81' 81 Ronaldo Keiji Tamada 34' 34 Tamada
Starting line-ups
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🇧🇷 Brazil
Dida · GK 1 Dida Cicinho · RB 13 Cicinho Gilberto · LB 16 Gilberto Lúcio · CB 3 Lúcio Juan · CB 4 Juan Ronaldinho · LM 10 Ronaldinho Gilberto Silva · CM 17 Silva Juninho · CM 19 Juninho Kaká · RM 8 Kaká Robinho · CF 23 Robinho Ronaldo · CF 9 Ronaldo 🇯🇵 Japan
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi · GK 23 Kawaguchi Alex · LB 14 Alex Keisuke Tsuboi · CB 19 Tsuboi Akira Kaji · RB 21 Kaji Yuji Nakazawa · CB 22 Nakazawa Shunsuke Nakamura · LM 10 Nakamura Junichi Inamoto · CM 17 Inamoto Hidetoshi Nakata · CM 7 Nakata Mitsuo Ogasawara · RM 8 Ogasawara Seiichiro Maki · CF 11 Maki Keiji Tamada · CF 20 Tamada 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)
🇧🇷 Brazil 78.0% draw 16.4% 5.6% Japan 🇯🇵
Model P(result)
78.1%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#441
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.36
−log₂ P(observed)
Brazil's run W 🇭🇷 1–0 Croatia, Group W 🇦🇺 2–0 Australia, Group W 🇯🇵 4–1 Japan, Group W 🇬🇭 3–0 Ghana, Round of 16 L 🇫🇷 0–1 France, Quarter-final 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