🇷🇺 Russia 5–0 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
2018 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇷🇺 Russia value €162M · value #18 · Elo #28
Aleksandr Golovin €18M Fyodor Smolov €16M Mário Fernandes €16M 5–0 Russia win
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia value €19M · value #31 · Elo #32
Yasser Al-Shahrani €2M Mohammed Al-Breik €1M Motaz Hawsawi €1M Goals
Russia ▲ Saudi Arabia ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' 105' 120' Yury Gazinsky 12' 12 Gazinsky Denis Cheryshev 43' 43 Cheryshev Artem Dzyuba 71' 71 Dzyuba Denis Cheryshev 90+1' 91 Cheryshev Aleksandr Golovin 90+4' 94 Golovin
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇷🇺 Russia
Igor Akinfeev · GK 1 Akinfeev Yuri Zhirkov · LB 18 Zhirkov Mário Fernandes · RB 2 Fernandes Ilya Kutepov · CB 3 Kutepov Sergei Ignashevich · CB 4 Ignashevich Roman Zobnin · CM 11 Zobnin Yury Gazinsky · CM 8 Gazinsky Alan Dzagoev · AM 9 Dzagoev Fyodor Smolov · CF 10 Smolov Aleksandr Golovin · LW 17 Golovin Aleksandr Samedov · RW 19 Samedov 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Abdullah Al-Mayouf · GK 1 Al-Mayouf Yasser Al-Shahrani · LB 13 Al-Shahrani Osama Hawsawi · CB 3 Hawsawi Omar Hawsawi · CB 5 Hawsawi Mohammed Al-Breik · RB 6 Al-Breik Abdullah Otayf · CM 14 Otayf Taisir Al-Jassim · CM 17 Al-Jassim Salman Al-Faraj · DM 7 Al-Faraj Mohammad Al-Sahlawi · CF 10 Al-Sahlawi Salem Al-Dawsari · RW 18 Al-Dawsari Yahya Al-Shehri · LW 8 Al-Shehri 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)
🇷🇺 Russia 49.7% draw 25.8% 24.5% Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Model P(result)
49.6%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#264
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
1.01
−log₂ P(observed)
Russia's run W 🇸🇦 5–0 Saudi Arabia, Group W 🇪🇬 3–1 Egypt, Group L 🇺🇾 0–3 Uruguay, Group D 🇪🇸 1–1 Spain, Round of 16 D 🇭🇷 2–2 Croatia, Quarter-final Saudi Arabia's run L 🇷🇺 0–5 Russia, Group L 🇺🇾 0–1 Uruguay, Group W 🇪🇬 2–1 Egypt, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.