🇪🇸 Spain 1–0 Iran 🇮🇷
2018 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇪🇸 Spain value €1034M · value #2 · Elo #3
Sergio Busquets €80M Isco €75M Marco Asensio €75M 1–0 Spain win
🇮🇷 Iran value €48M · value #28 · Elo #18
Alireza Jahanbakhsh €12M Sardar Azmoun €9M Karim Ansarifard €4M Goals
Spain ▲ Iran ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Diego Costa 54' 54 Costa
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇪🇸 Spain
David de Gea · GK 1 Gea Sergio Ramos · CB 15 Ramos Jordi Alba · LB 18 Alba Dani Carvajal · RB 2 Carvajal Gerard Piqué · CB 3 Piqué Isco · AM 22 Isco Sergio Busquets · CM 5 Busquets Andrés Iniesta · CM 6 Iniesta Lucas Vázquez · LW 11 Vázquez Diego Costa · CF 19 Costa David Silva · RW 21 Silva 🇮🇷 Iran
Alireza Beiranvand · GK 1 Beiranvand Majid Hosseini · CB 19 Hosseini Ramin Rezaeian · RB 23 Rezaeian Ehsan Hajsafi · LB 3 Hajsafi Morteza Pouraliganji · CB 8 Pouraliganji Mehdi Taremi · AM 17 Taremi Saeid Ezatolahi · CM 6 Ezatolahi Omid Ebrahimi · CM 9 Ebrahimi Karim Ansarifard · RW 10 Ansarifard Vahid Amiri · LW 11 Amiri Sardar Azmoun · CF 20 Azmoun 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)
🇪🇸 Spain 67.7% draw 20.9% 11.4% Iran 🇮🇷
Model P(result)
67.8%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#383
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.56
−log₂ P(observed)
Spain's run D 🇵🇹 3–3 Portugal, Group W 🇮🇷 1–0 Iran, Group D 🇲🇦 2–2 Morocco, Group D 🇷🇺 1–1 Russia, Round of 16 Iran's run W 🇲🇦 1–0 Morocco, Group L 🇪🇸 0–1 Spain, Group D 🇵🇹 1–1 Portugal, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.