🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 2–1 Argentina 🇦🇷
2022 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia value €25M · value #30 · Elo #30
Sultan Al-Ghannam €2M Salem Al-Dawsari €2M Firas Al-Buraikan €2M 2–1 Saudi Arabia win
🇦🇷 Argentina value €645M · value #7 · Elo #2
Lautaro Martínez €75M Cristian Romero €55M Lionel Messi €50M
Goals
Saudi Arabia ▲ Argentina ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Saleh Al-Shehri 48' 48 Al-Shehri Salem Al-Dawsari 53' 53 Al-Dawsari Lionel Messi 10' (pen) 10 Messi
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Al-Owais · GK 21 Al-Owais Saud Abdulhamid · RB 12 Abdulhamid Yasser Al-Shahrani · LB 13 Al-Shahrani Hassan Al-Tombakti · CB 17 Al-Tombakti Ali Al-Bulaihi · CB 5 Al-Bulaihi Salem Al-Dawsari · LM 10 Al-Dawsari Mohamed Kanno · CM 23 Kanno Salman Al-Faraj · CM 7 Al-Faraj Abdulellah Al-Malki · DM 8 Al-Malki Firas Al-Buraikan · RM 9 Al-Buraikan Saleh Al-Shehri · CF 11 Al-Shehri 🇦🇷 Argentina
Emiliano Martínez · GK 23 Martínez Cristian Romero · CB 13 Romero Nicolás Otamendi · CB 19 Otamendi Nahuel Molina · RB 26 Molina Nicolás Tagliafico · LB 3 Tagliafico Leandro Paredes · CM 5 Paredes Rodrigo De Paul · CM 7 Paul Lionel Messi · CF 10 Messi Ángel Di María · RW 11 María Papu Gómez · LW 17 Gómez Lautaro Martínez · CF 22 Martínez
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)
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 0.5% draw 9.3% 90.2% Argentina 🇦🇷
Model P(result)
0.5%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#1
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
7.72
−log₂ P(observed)
Saudi Arabia's run W 🇦🇷 2–1 Argentina, Group L 🇵🇱 0–2 Poland, Group L 🇲🇽 1–2 Mexico, Group
Argentina's run L 🇸🇦 1–2 Saudi Arabia, Group W 🇲🇽 2–0 Mexico, Group W 🇵🇱 2–0 Poland, Group W 🇦🇺 2–1 Australia, Round of 16 D 🇳🇱 2–2 Netherlands, Quarter-final W 🇭🇷 3–0 Croatia, Semi-final D 🇫🇷 3–3 France, Final
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.