🇬🇷 Greece 2–1 Nigeria 🇳🇬
2010 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇬🇷 Greece value €87M · value #17 · Elo #21
Kostas Katsouranis €8M Vasilis Torosidis €8M Sotiris Ninis €8M 2–1 Greece win
🇳🇬 Nigeria value €98M · value #15 · Elo #23
Yakubu €16M Obafemi Martins €10M Taye Taiwo €10M Goals
Greece ▲ Nigeria ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Dimitris Salpingidis 44' 44 Salpingidis Vasilis Torosidis 71' 71 Torosidis Kalu Uche 16' 16 Uche
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇬🇷 Greece
Alexandros Tzorvas · GK 12 Tzorvas Loukas Vyntra · CB 11 Vyntra Vasilis Torosidis · LB 15 Torosidis Sotirios Kyrgiakos · RB 16 Kyrgiakos Avraam Papadopoulos · CB 8 Papadopoulos Sokratis Papastathopoulos · DM 19 Papastathopoulos Kostas Katsouranis · CM 21 Katsouranis Alexandros Tziolis · CM 6 Tziolis Giorgos Karagounis · RW 10 Karagounis Dimitris Salpingidis · LW 14 Salpingidis Theofanis Gekas · CF 17 Gekas 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Vincent Enyeama · GK 1 Enyeama Chidi Odiah · RB 17 Odiah Joseph Yobo · CB 2 Yobo Taye Taiwo · LB 3 Taiwo Danny Shittu · CB 6 Shittu Sani Kaita · RM 14 Kaita Lukman Haruna · CM 15 Haruna Dickson Etuhu · CM 20 Etuhu Peter Odemwingie · SS 11 Odemwingie Kalu Uche · LW 12 Uche Yakubu · CF 8 Yakubu 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)
🇬🇷 Greece 35.8% draw 27.0% 37.2% Nigeria 🇳🇬
Model P(result)
35.8%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#196
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
1.48
−log₂ P(observed)
Greece's run L 🇰🇷 0–2 South Korea, Group W 🇳🇬 2–1 Nigeria, Group L 🇦🇷 0–2 Argentina, Group Nigeria's run L 🇦🇷 0–1 Argentina, Group L 🇬🇷 1–2 Greece, Group D 🇰🇷 2–2 South Korea, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.