🇦🇷 Argentina 2–1 Nigeria 🇳🇬
2018 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇦🇷 Argentina value €699M · value #7 · Elo #5
Lionel Messi €180M Paulo Dybala €110M Sergio Agüero €80M 2–1 Argentina win
🇳🇬 Nigeria value €134M · value #20 · Elo #27
Wilfred Ndidi €25M Victor Moses €20M Ahmed Musa €15M Goals
Argentina ▲ Nigeria ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Lionel Messi 14' 14 Messi Marcos Rojo 86' 86 Rojo Victor Moses 51' (pen) 51 Moses
Starting line-ups
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🇦🇷 Argentina
Franco Armani · GK 12 Armani Marcos Rojo · CB 16 Rojo Nicolás Otamendi · CB 17 Otamendi Gabriel Mercado · RB 2 Mercado Nicolás Tagliafico · LB 3 Tagliafico Ángel Di María · LM 11 María Javier Mascherano · CM 14 Mascherano Enzo Pérez · RM 15 Pérez Éver Banega · CM 7 Banega Lionel Messi · CF 10 Messi Gonzalo Higuaín · CF 9 Higuaín 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Francis Uzoho · GK 23 Uzoho Kenneth Omeruo · CB 22 Omeruo William Troost-Ekong · CB 5 Troost-Ekong Leon Balogun · CB 6 Balogun John Obi Mikel · DM 10 Mikel Wilfred Ndidi · CM 4 Ndidi Oghenekaro Etebo · CM 8 Etebo Victor Moses · RW 11 Moses Kelechi Iheanacho · CF 14 Iheanacho Brian Idowu · LW 2 Idowu Ahmed Musa · CF 7 Musa 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 63.0% draw 22.5% 14.5% Nigeria 🇳🇬
Model P(result)
63.0%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#345
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.67
−log₂ P(observed)
Argentina's run D 🇮🇸 1–1 Iceland, Group L 🇭🇷 0–3 Croatia, Group W 🇳🇬 2–1 Nigeria, Group L 🇫🇷 3–4 France, Round of 16 Nigeria's run L 🇭🇷 0–2 Croatia, Group W 🇮🇸 2–0 Iceland, Group L 🇦🇷 1–2 Argentina, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup