🇦🇷 Argentina 4–1 South Korea 🇰🇷
2010 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇦🇷 Argentina value €347M · value #5 · Elo #7
Lionel Messi €80M Sergio Agüero €36M Gonzalo Higuaín €32M 4–1 Argentina win
🇰🇷 South Korea value €33M · value #29 · Elo #17
Park Chu-young €5M Ki Sung-yueng €3M Lee Chung-yong €3M Goals
Argentina ▲ South Korea ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Park Chu-young 17' (o.g.) 17 Chu-young Gonzalo Higuaín 33' 33 Higuaín Gonzalo Higuaín 76' 76 Higuaín Gonzalo Higuaín 80' 80 Higuaín Lee Chung-yong 45+1' 46 Chung-yong
Starting line-ups
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🇦🇷 Argentina
Sergio Romero · GK 22 Romero Walter Samuel · CB 13 Samuel Jonás Gutiérrez · RB 17 Gutiérrez Martín Demichelis · CB 2 Demichelis Gabriel Heinze · LB 6 Heinze Lionel Messi · AM 10 Messi Javier Mascherano · DM 14 Mascherano Maxi Rodríguez · RM 20 Rodríguez Ángel Di María · LM 7 María Carlos Tevez · CF 11 Tevez Gonzalo Higuaín · CF 9 Higuaín 🇰🇷 South Korea
Jung Sung-ryong · GK 18 Sung-ryong Lee Young-pyo · LB 12 Young-pyo Lee Jung-soo · CB 14 Jung-soo Oh Beom-seok · RB 2 Beom-seok Cho Yong-hyung · CB 4 Yong-hyung Ki Sung-yong · CM 16 Sung-yong Park Ji-sung · AM 7 Ji-sung Kim Jung-woo · CM 8 Jung-woo Park Chu-young · CF 10 Chu-young Lee Chung-yong · RW 17 Chung-yong Yeom Ki-hun · LW 19 Ki-hun 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)
🇦🇷 Argentina 55.4% draw 24.7% 19.9% South Korea 🇰🇷
Model P(result)
55.4%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#300
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.85
−log₂ P(observed)
Argentina's run W 🇳🇬 1–0 Nigeria, Group W 🇰🇷 4–1 South Korea, Group W 🇬🇷 2–0 Greece, Group W 🇲🇽 3–1 Mexico, Round of 16 L 🇩🇪 0–4 Germany, Quarter-final South Korea's run W 🇬🇷 2–0 Greece, Group L 🇦🇷 1–4 Argentina, Group D 🇳🇬 2–2 Nigeria, Group L 🇺🇾 1–2 Uruguay, Round of 16
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.