🇦🇷 Argentina 3–2 Cape Verde 🇨🇻 2026 · live
2026 World Cup · Round of 32. tournament · tables
🇦🇷 Argentina value €808M · value #7 · Elo #2
Julián Alvarez €100M Enzo Fernández €90M Lautaro Martínez €85M 3–2 Argentina win
🇨🇻 Cape Verde value €54M · value #39 · Elo #41
Logan Costa €15M Wagner Pina €11M Kevin Pina €5M Goals
Argentina ▲ Cape Verde ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' 105' 120' Lionel Messi 29' 29 Messi Lisandro Martínez 92' 92 Martínez Diney 111' (o.g.) 111 Diney Deroy Duarte 59' 59 Duarte Sidny Lopes Cabral 103' 103 Cabral
Starting line-ups
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🇦🇷 Argentina
Emiliano Martínez · GK 23 Martínez Cristian Romero · CB 13 Romero Facundo Medina · LB 25 Medina Nahuel Molina · RB 26 Molina Lisandro Martínez · CB 6 Martínez Thiago Almada · LM 16 Almada Alexis Mac Allister · CM 20 Allister Enzo Fernández · CM 24 Fernández Rodrigo De Paul · RM 7 Paul Lionel Messi · CF 10 Messi Lautaro Martínez · CF 22 Martínez 🇨🇻 Cape Verde
Vozinha · GK 1 Vozinha Sidny Lopes Cabral · LB 13 Cabral Steven Moreira · RB 22 Moreira Diney · CB 3 Diney Pico · CB 4 Pico Deroy Duarte · CM 14 Duarte Laros Duarte · CM 15 Duarte Ryan Mendes · RM 20 Mendes Kevin Pina · DM 6 Pina Jovane Cabral · LM 7 Cabral Nuno da Costa · CF 21 Costa 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 91.1% draw 8.7% 0.2% Cape Verde 🇨🇻
Model P(result)
91.0%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#483
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
0.14
−log₂ P(observed)
Argentina's run W 🇩🇿 3–0 Algeria, Group W 🇦🇹 2–0 Austria, Group W 🇯🇴 3–1 Jordan, Group W 🇨🇻 3–2 Cape Verde, Round of 32 W 🇪🇬 3–2 Egypt, Round of 16 W 🇨🇭 3–1 Switzerland, Quarter-final W 🏴 2–1 England, Semi-final Cape Verde's run D 🇪🇸 0–0 Spain, Group D 🇺🇾 2–2 Uruguay, Group D 🇸🇦 0–0 Saudi Arabia, Group L 🇦🇷 2–3 Argentina, Round of 32
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.