🇪🇸 Spain 1–0 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
2006 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇪🇸 Spain value €329M · value #4 · Elo #6
Xavi €28M Carles Puyol €27M Iker Casillas €25M 1–0 Spain win
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia value €10M · value #32 · Elo #31
Hamad Al-Montashari €1M Yasser Al-Qahtani €1M Sami Al-Jaber €1M Goals
Spain ▲ Saudi Arabia ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Juanito 36' 36 Juanito
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇪🇸 Spain
Santiago Cañizares · GK 19 Cañizares Antonio López · LB 12 López Míchel Salgado · RB 2 Salgado Juanito · CB 20 Juanito Carlos Marchena · CB 4 Marchena José Antonio Reyes · LF 10 Reyes Andrés Iniesta · CM 13 Iniesta Joaquín · RF 17 Joaquín Cesc Fàbregas · CM 18 Fàbregas David Albelda · CM 6 Albelda Raúl · CF 7 Raúl 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Mabrouk Zaid · GK 21 Zaid Abdulaziz Khathran · LB 12 Khathran Ahmed Al-Dokhi · RB 2 Al-Dokhi Redha Tukar · CB 3 Tukar Hamad Al-Montashari · CB 4 Al-Montashari Hussein Sulaimani · LM 13 Sulaimani Saud Kariri · CM 14 Kariri Khaled Aziz · CM 16 Aziz Mohammed Noor · RM 8 Noor Saad Al-Harthi · CF 11 Al-Harthi Sami Al-Jaber · CF 9 Al-Jaber 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)
🇪🇸 Spain 88.5% draw 10.4% 1.1% Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Model P(result)
88.5%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#478
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.18
−log₂ P(observed)
Spain's run W 🇺🇦 4–0 Ukraine, Group W 🇹🇳 3–1 Tunisia, Group W 🇸🇦 1–0 Saudi Arabia, Group L 🇫🇷 1–3 France, Round of 16 Saudi Arabia's run D 🇹🇳 2–2 Tunisia, Group L 🇺🇦 0–4 Ukraine, Group L 🇪🇸 0–1 Spain, Group
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