🇦🇷 Argentina 1–0 Iran 🇮🇷
2014 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇦🇷 Argentina value €392M · value #4 · Elo #4
Lionel Messi €120M Sergio Agüero €45M Gonzalo Higuaín €38M 1–0 Argentina win
🇮🇷 Iran value €24M · value #30 · Elo #25
Ashkan Dejagah €3M Andranik Teymourian €2M Jalal Hosseini €2M Goals
Argentina ▲ Iran ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' 105' 120' Lionel Messi 90+1' 91 Messi
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇦🇷 Argentina
Sergio Romero · GK 1 Romero Marcos Rojo · LB 16 Rojo Federico Fernández · CB 17 Fernández Ezequiel Garay · CB 2 Garay Pablo Zabaleta · RB 4 Zabaleta Lionel Messi · RF 10 Messi Javier Mascherano · CM 14 Mascherano Sergio Agüero · LF 20 Agüero Fernando Gago · CM 5 Gago Ángel Di María · CM 7 María Gonzalo Higuaín · CF 9 Higuaín 🇮🇷 Iran
Alireza Haghighi · GK 12 Haghighi Pejman Montazeri · CB 15 Montazeri Mehrdad Pooladi · LB 23 Pooladi Jalal Hosseini · RB 4 Hosseini Amir Hossein Sadeghi · CB 5 Sadeghi Andranik Teymourian · CM 14 Teymourian Javad Nekounam · CM 6 Nekounam Masoud Shojaei · AM 7 Shojaei Reza Ghoochannejhad · CF 16 Ghoochannejhad Ashkan Dejagah · RW 21 Dejagah Ehsan Hajsafi · LW 3 Hajsafi 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 77.6% draw 16.6% 5.8% Iran 🇮🇷
Model P(result)
77.6%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#439
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.37
−log₂ P(observed)
Argentina's run W 🇧🇦 2–1 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Group W 🇮🇷 1–0 Iran, Group W 🇳🇬 3–2 Nigeria, Group W 🇨🇭 1–0 Switzerland, Round of 16 W 🇧🇪 1–0 Belgium, Quarter-final D 🇳🇱 0–0 Netherlands, Semi-final L 🇩🇪 0–1 Germany, Final Iran's run D 🇳🇬 0–0 Nigeria, Group L 🇦🇷 0–1 Argentina, Group L 🇧🇦 1–3 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.