🇬🇭 Ghana 2–1 United States 🇺🇸
2006 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇬🇭 Ghana value €65M · value #18 · Elo #28
Michael Essien €36M Stephen Appiah €7M Sulley Muntari €6M 2–1 Ghana win
🇺🇸 United States value €40M · value #22 · Elo #15
Oguchi Onyewu €5M Claudio Reyna €4M DaMarcus Beasley €4M Goals
Ghana ▲ United States ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Haminu Draman 22' 22 Draman Stephen Appiah 45+2' (pen) 47 Appiah Clint Dempsey 43' 43 Dempsey
Starting line-ups
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🇬🇭 Ghana
Richard Kingson · GK 22 Kingson Habib Mohamed · LB 13 Mohamed John Paintsil · RB 15 Paintsil John Mensah · CB 5 Mensah Illiasu Shilla · CB 7 Shilla Stephen Appiah · CM 10 Appiah Haminu Draman · LM 23 Draman Michael Essien · CM 8 Essien Derek Boateng · RM 9 Boateng Matthew Amoah · CF 14 Amoah Razak Pimpong · CF 19 Pimpong 🇺🇸 United States
Kasey Keller · GK 18 Keller Jimmy Conrad · CB 13 Conrad Oguchi Onyewu · CB 22 Onyewu Carlos Bocanegra · LB 3 Bocanegra Steve Cherundolo · RB 6 Cherundolo Claudio Reyna · CM 10 Reyna DaMarcus Beasley · CM 17 Beasley Landon Donovan · CM 21 Donovan Eddie Lewis · LM 7 Lewis Clint Dempsey · RM 8 Dempsey Brian McBride · CF 20 McBride 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)
🇬🇭 Ghana 21.0% draw 25.0% 54.0% United States 🇺🇸
Model P(result)
21.0%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#67
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
2.25
−log₂ P(observed)
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 United States's run L 🇨🇿 0–3 Czech Republic, Group D 🇮🇹 1–1 Italy, Group L 🇬🇭 1–2 Ghana, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup