🇧🇪 Belgium 2–1 Algeria 🇩🇿
2014 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇧🇪 Belgium value €348M · value #6 · Elo #15
Eden Hazard €45M Vincent Kompany €35M Axel Witsel €35M 2–1 Belgium win
🇩🇿 Algeria value €57M · value #27 · Elo #31
Sofiane Feghouli €12M Saphir Taïder €10M Faouzi Ghoulam €5M Goals
Belgium ▲ Algeria ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Marouane Fellaini 70' 70 Fellaini Dries Mertens 80' 80 Mertens Sofiane Feghouli 25' (pen) 25 Feghouli
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇧🇪 Belgium
Thibaut Courtois · GK 1 Courtois Daniel Van Buyten · CB 15 Buyten Toby Alderweireld · RB 2 Alderweireld Vincent Kompany · CB 4 Kompany Jan Vertonghen · LB 5 Vertonghen Moussa Dembélé · CM 19 Dembélé Axel Witsel · CM 6 Witsel Kevin De Bruyne · AM 7 Bruyne Eden Hazard · LW 10 Hazard Nacer Chadli · RW 22 Chadli Romelu Lukaku · CF 9 Lukaku 🇩🇿 Algeria
Raïs M'Bolhi · GK 23 M'Bolhi Madjid Bougherra · CB 2 Bougherra Mehdi Mostefa · RB 22 Mostefa Faouzi Ghoulam · LB 3 Ghoulam Rafik Halliche · CB 5 Halliche Sofiane Feghouli · AM 10 Feghouli Carl Medjani · CM 12 Medjani Nabil Bentaleb · LM 14 Bentaleb Saphir Taïder · RM 19 Taïder Riyad Mahrez · AM 21 Mahrez Hillal Soudani · CF 15 Soudani 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)
🇧🇪 Belgium 68.2% draw 20.7% 11.1% Algeria 🇩🇿
Model P(result)
68.1%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#387
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.55
−log₂ P(observed)
Belgium's run W 🇩🇿 2–1 Algeria, Group W 🇷🇺 1–0 Russia, Group W 🇰🇷 1–0 South Korea, Group W 🇺🇸 2–1 United States, Round of 16 L 🇦🇷 0–1 Argentina, Quarter-final Algeria's run L 🇧🇪 1–2 Belgium, Group W 🇰🇷 4–2 South Korea, Group D 🇷🇺 1–1 Russia, Group L 🇩🇪 1–2 Germany, Round of 16
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.