🇫🇷 France 2–0 Nigeria 🇳🇬
2014 World Cup · Round of 16. tournament · tables
🇫🇷 France value €379M · value #5 · Elo #11
Paul Pogba €45M Karim Benzema €34M Antoine Griezmann €25M 2–0 France win
🇳🇬 Nigeria value €84M · value #23 · Elo #24
John Obi Mikel €20M Emmanuel Emenike €14M Ahmed Musa €12M Goals
France ▲ Nigeria ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' 105' 120' Paul Pogba 79' 79 Pogba Joseph Yobo 90+2' (o.g.) 92 Yobo
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇫🇷 France
Hugo Lloris · GK 1 Lloris Mathieu Debuchy · RB 2 Debuchy Laurent Koscielny · CB 21 Koscielny Patrice Evra · LB 3 Evra Raphaël Varane · CB 4 Varane Blaise Matuidi · CM 14 Matuidi Paul Pogba · CM 19 Pogba Yohan Cabaye · DM 6 Cabaye Karim Benzema · LW 10 Benzema Mathieu Valbuena · RW 8 Valbuena Olivier Giroud · CF 9 Giroud 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Vincent Enyeama · GK 1 Enyeama Juwon Oshaniwa · CB 13 Oshaniwa Joseph Yobo · CB 2 Yobo Kenneth Omeruo · LB 22 Omeruo Efe Ambrose · RB 5 Ambrose John Obi Mikel · CM 10 Mikel Victor Moses · LM 11 Moses Ogenyi Onazi · CM 17 Onazi Ahmed Musa · RM 7 Musa Peter Odemwingie · SS 8 Odemwingie Emmanuel Emenike · CF 9 Emenike 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)
🇫🇷 France 65.5% draw 21.7% 12.8% Nigeria 🇳🇬
Model P(result)
65.6%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#365
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.61
−log₂ P(observed)
France's run W 🇭🇳 3–0 Honduras, Group W 🇨🇭 5–2 Switzerland, Group D 🇪🇨 0–0 Ecuador, Group W 🇳🇬 2–0 Nigeria, Round of 16 L 🇩🇪 0–1 Germany, Quarter-final Nigeria's run D 🇮🇷 0–0 Iran, Group W 🇧🇦 1–0 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Group L 🇦🇷 2–3 Argentina, Group L 🇫🇷 0–2 France, Round of 16
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.