FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 (2)

Group G

Main article: 2006 FIFA World Cup Group G

France only managed a scoreless draw against Switzerland and a 1–1 draw against South Korea. With captain Zinedine Zidane suspended, their 2–0 win against Togo was enough for them to advance to the knockout round. They were joined by the group winners, Switzerland, who defeated South Korea 2–0, and did not concede a goal in the tournament. South Korea won their first World Cup finals match outside their own country in defeating Togo, but four points were not enough to see them through to the round of 16 (the only team for which this was the case), while Togo exited without a point.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Switzerland	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	7
France	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5
South Korea	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
Togo	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0

13 June 2006
South Korea	2 – 1	Togo
France	0 – 0	Switzerland
18 June 2006
France	1 – 1	South Korea
19 June 2006
Togo	0 – 2	Switzerland
23 June 2006
Togo	0 – 2	France
Switzerland	2 – 0	South Korea

[edit]Group H

Main article: 2006 FIFA World Cup Group H

Spain dominated Group H, picking up the maximum number of points, scoring 8 goals, and conceding only 1. Ukraine, despite being beaten 4–0 by Spain in their first World Cup game, took advantage of the weaker opponents to beat Saudi Arabia 4–0 and scrape past Tunisia 1–0 thanks to a 70th minute penalty by Andriy Shevchenko, to reach the Round of 16. Saudi Arabia and Tunisia went out of the tournament having 1 point each, thanks to a 2–2 draw against each other.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	3	3	0	0	8	1	+7	9
Ukraine	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
Tunisia	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1
Saudi Arabia	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

14 June 2006
Spain	4 – 0	Ukraine
Tunisia	2 – 2	Saudi Arabia
19 June 2006
Saudi Arabia	0 – 4	Ukraine
Spain	3 – 1	Tunisia
23 June 2006
Saudi Arabia	0 – 1	Spain
Ukraine	1 – 0	Tunisia

[edit]Knockout stage

Main article: 2006 FIFA World Cup knockout stage

The knockout stage involved the sixteen teams that qualified from the group stage of the tournament. There were four rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round. The successive rounds were: round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final. There was also a play-off to decide third/fourth place. For each game in the knockout stage, a draw was followed by thirty minutes of extra time (two fifteen minute halves); if scores were still level there would be a penalty shootout (at least five penalties each, and more if necessary) to determine who progressed to the next round. Scores after extra time are indicated by (a.e.t.), and penalty shoot outs are indicated by (pen.).

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

24 June – Munich

Germany

2

30 June – Berlin

Sweden

0

Germany (pen.)

1 (4)

24 June – Leipzig

Argentina

1 (2)

Argentina (a.e.t.)

2

4 July – Dortmund

Mexico

1

Germany

0

26 June – Kaiserslautern

Italy (a.e.t.)

2

Italy

1

30 June – Hamburg

Australia

0

Italy

3

26 June – Cologne

Ukraine

0

Switzerland

0 (0)

9 July – Berlin

Ukraine (pen.)

0 (3)

Italy (pen.)

1 (5)

25 June – Stuttgart

France

1 (3)

England

1

1 July – Gelsenkirchen

Ecuador

0

England

0 (1)

25 June – Nuremberg

Portugal (pen.)

0 (3)

Portugal

1

5 July – Munich

Netherlands

0

Portugal

0

27 June – Dortmund

France

1

Third place

Brazil

3

1 July – Frankfurt

8 July – Stuttgart

Ghana

0

Brazil

0

Germany

3

27 June – Hanover

France

1

Portugal

1

Spain

1

France

3

[edit]Round of 16

In the second round, conceding two early goals in the first 12 minutes to Germany effectively ended the Swedes' hopes of progressing to the quarter-finals. Argentina struggled to get past Mexico until a Maxi Rodríguez goal in extra time put the Albiceleste in the quarter-finals. Australia's journey ended when Italians were awarded a controversial penalty deep into the remaining seconds of the match. The Italians had spent much of the game with only ten men on the field, following an equally controversial red card shown to centre back Marco Materazzi. In a 0–0 match, Switzerland failed to convert any of their three penalties in the penalty shootout against Ukraine to see them exit the competition with an unwanted new record in becoming the first team in a World Cup to fail to convert any penalties in a shootout. Their elimination also meant that they became the first nation to be eliminated from the World Cup without conceding any goals (and indeed the only nation ever to participate in a World Cup finals tournament without conceding a goal).

England struggled past Ecuador but won 1-0 thanks to a David Beckham free kick. Brazil won 3–0 against Ghana, in a game which includedRonaldo's record 15th World Cup goal. Der Spiegel reported that the match was influenced by an Asian betting syndicate.^[20] Portugal defeated the Netherlands 1–0. The only goal came courtesy of a Maniche strike in an acrimonious match, which marked a new World Cup record with 16 yellow cards and 4 players being sent off for a second bookable offence. France came from behind to defeat Spain 3–1 thanks to goals from Franck Ribéry, Patrick Vieira, and Zinedine Zidane.

24 June 2006 17:00	Germany	2 – 0	Sweden	FIFA WM Stadion München, Munich Attendance: 66,000 Referee: Carlos Simon (Brazil)
	Podolski  4', 12'	(Report)

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24 June 2006 21:00	Argentina	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Mexico	Zentralstadion, Leipzig Attendance: 43,000 Referee: Massimo Busacca(Switzerland)
	Crespo  10' Rodríguez  98'	(Report)	Márquez  6'

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25 June 2006 17:00	England	1 – 0	Ecuador	Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart Attendance: 52,000 Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)
	Beckham  60'	(Report)

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25 June 2006 21:00	Portugal	1 – 0	Netherlands	Frankenstadion, Nuremberg Attendance: 41,000 Referee: Valentin Ivanov (Russia)
	Maniche  23'	(Report)

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26 June 2006 17:00	Italy	1 – 0	Australia	Fritz Walter Stadion, Kaiserslautern Attendance: 46,000 Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)
	Totti  90+5' (pen.)	(Report)

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26 June 2006 21:00	Switzerland	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Ukraine	FIFA WM Stadion Köln, Cologne Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)
		(Report)
		Penalties
	Streller  Barnetta  Cabanas	0 – 3	Shevchenko  Milevskiy  Rebrov  Husyev

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27 June 2006 17:00	Brazil	3 – 0	Ghana	FIFA WM Stadion Dortmund, Dortmund Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)
	Ronaldo  5' Adriano  45+1' Zé Roberto  84'	(Report)

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27 June 2006 21:00	Spain	1 – 3	France	FIFA WM Stadion Hannover, Hanover Attendance: 43,000 Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)
	Villa  28' (pen.)	(Report)	Ribéry  41' Vieira  83' Zidane  90+2'

[edit]Quarter-finals

Germany and Argentina ended 1–1 after extra time; the hosts edged out the Argentinians 4–2 on penalties to go through to the semifinals (this was the first time Argentina had lost a World Cup penalty shootout: up until this match, both Argentina and Germany had participated in three penalty shootouts, winning all of them). In Gelsenkirchen, when England faced Portugal, Wayne Rooney was sent off, and Portugal won the penalty shootout 3–1 after a 0–0 draw to reach their first World Cup semi-final since the days of Eusébio 40 years earlier, and ensure manager Luiz Felipe Scolari's third consecutive tournament quarter-final win over Sven-Goran Eriksson's England.

Italy defeated quarter-final debutants Ukraine 3–0. France eliminated Brazil 1–0 to advance into the semi-finals. Brazil only managed one shot on goal, while Zinedine Zidane's dribbling earned him Man of the Match and his free-kick to Thierry Henry resulted in the winning goal.

30 June 2006 17:00	Germany	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Argentina	Olympiastadion, Berlin Attendance: 72,000 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)
	Klose  80'	(Report)	Ayala  49'
		Penalties
	Neuville  Ballack  Podolski  Borowski	4 – 2	Cruz  Ayala  Rodríguez  Cambiasso

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30 June 2006 21:00	Italy	3 – 0	Ukraine	FIFA WM Stadion Hamburg, Hamburg Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)
	Zambrotta  6' Toni  59', 69'	(Report)

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1 July 2006 17:00	England	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Portugal	FIFA WM Stadion Gelsenkirchen,Gelsenkirchen Attendance: 52,000 Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)
		(Report)
		Penalties
	Lampard  Hargreaves  Gerrard  Carragher	1 – 3	Simão  Viana  Petit  Postiga  Ronaldo

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1 July 2006 21:00	Brazil	0 – 1	France	FIFA WM Stadion Frankfurt, Frankfurt Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)
		(Report)	Henry  57'

[edit]Semi-finals

With Argentina and Brazil eliminated in the quarter-finals, an all-European semi-final line up was completed for only the fourth time (after the1934, 1966 and 1982 tournaments).

The semi-final between Germany and Italy produced an extra time period that went scoreless until the 118th minute, when Italy scored twice through Fabio Grosso and Alessandro Del Piero, putting an end to Germany's undefeated record in Dortmund. With this win, Italy continued their dominance over Germany.

In the second semi-final, Portugal lost to France 1–0 in Munich. In a repeat of the Euro 1984 and Euro 2000 semi-finals, Portugal were defeated by France, with the decisive goal being a penalty scored by France captain Zinedine Zidane.

4 July 2006 21:00	Germany	0 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Italy	FIFA WM Stadion Dortmund, Dortmund Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)
		(Report)	Grosso  119' Del Piero  120+1'

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5 July 2006 21:00	Portugal	0 – 1	France	FIFA WM Stadion München, Munich Attendance: 66,000 Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)
		(Report)	Zidane  33' (pen.)

[edit]Third place play-off

The hosts got three goals in 20 minutes in the second half with the help of 21-year-old left midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger. His first goal beat the Portuguese goalkeeper Ricardo with pace over his head. Only 4 minutes later, Schweinsteiger's free kick 30 meters from the left of the penalty box, driven low across goal, was connected with Petit's knee to become an own goal for Portugal. The German did not stop, and netted his second goal, which swerved away to the keeper's left, in the 78th minute.

Portugal were strong in possession but lacked punch in attack; unable to convert 57% possession into goals. Pauleta had two clear chances from 15 meters, but both times hit tame shots that did not trouble keeper Oliver Kahn, who was playing in his last match for the German national team. Portugal got a consolation goal with the help of substitute Luís Figo (also playing the final international game of his career), who almost immediately provided the precise distribution needed to unlock the German defence. A cross from the right wing on 88 minutes found fellow substitute Nuno Gomes at the far post, who dived in for the goal. The game ended 3–1, a result which gave the tournament hosts the bronze medals and left Portugal in fourth place.

8 July 2006 21:00	Germany	3 – 1	Portugal	Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart Attendance: 52,000 Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)
	Schweinsteiger  56', 78' Petit  60' (o.g.)	(Report)	Nuno Gomes  88'

[edit]Final

Main article: 2006 FIFA World Cup Final

The final started with each side scoring within the first 20 minutes. Zinedine Zidane opened the scoring by converting a controversial seventh-minute penalty kick,^[21] which glanced off the underside of the crossbar and into the goal. Marco Materazzi then levelled the scores in the 19th minute following an Andrea Pirlo corner. Both teams had chances to score the winning goal in normal time: Luca Toni hit the crossbar in the 35th minute for Italy (he later had a header disallowed for offside), while France were not awarded a possible second penalty in the 53rd minute when Florent Malouda went down in the box after a tackle from Gianluca Zambrotta.

At the end of the regulation 90 minutes, the score was still level at 1–1, and the match was forced into extra time. Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon made a potentially game-saving save in extra time when he tipped a Zidane header over the crossbar. Further controversy ensued near the end of extra time, when Zidane head-butted Materazzi in the chest in an off-the-ball incident and was sent off. Extra time produced no further goals and a penalty shootout followed, which Italy won 5–3. France's David Trezeguet, the man who scored the Golden Goal against Italy in Euro 2000, was the only player not to score his penalty; his spot kick hit the crossbar, landed on the goal line and went out. It was the first all-European final since Italy's triumph over West Germany in the 1982 World Cup, and the second final, after 1994, to be decided on penalties. It was also Italy's first world title in 24 years, and their fourth overall, making them the second most successful World Cup team ever. The victory also helped Italy top the FIFA World Rankings in February 2007 for the first time since November 1993.

9 July 2006 20:00	Italy	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	France	Olympiastadion, Berlin Attendance: 69,000 Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)
	Materazzi  19'	(Report)	Zidane  7' (pen.)
		Penalties
	Pirlo  Materazzi  De Rossi  Del Piero  Grosso	5 – 3	Wiltord  Trezeguet  Abidal  Sagnol

[edit]Statistics

[edit]Goalscorers

Miroslav Klose received the adidas Golden Shoe award for scoring five goals in the World Cup. This was the lowest number of goals scored by a tournament's top goalscorer since six players tied on four goals each in 1962. In total, 147 goals were scored (four of which were own goals).

5 goals

•  Miroslav Klose

3 goals

Hernán Crespo  Maxi Rodríguez  Ronaldo

Thierry Henry  Zinedine Zidane  Lukas Podolski

Fernando Torres  David Villa

2 goals

Tim Cahill  Adriano  Paulo Wanchope  Aruna Dindane  Tomáš Rosický  Agustín Delgado

Carlos Tenorio  Steven Gerrard  Patrick Vieira  Bastian Schweinsteiger  Marco Materazzi  Luca Toni

Omar Bravo  Bartosz Bosacki  Maniche  Alexander Frei  Andriy Shevchenko

1 goal

Flávio  Roberto Ayala  Esteban Cambiasso  Lionel Messi  Javier Saviola  Carlos Tévez  John Aloisi  Harry Kewell  Craig Moore  Fred  Gilberto  Juninho  Kaká  Zé Roberto  Rónald Gómez  Didier Drogba  Bonaventure Kalou  Bakary Koné  Niko Kovač  Darijo Srna  Jan Koller  Iván Kaviedes  David Beckham  Joe Cole  Peter Crouch  Franck Ribéry  Torsten Frings

Philipp Lahm  Oliver Neuville  Stephen Appiah  Haminu Dramani  Asamoah Gyan  Sulley Ali Muntari  Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh  Yahya Golmohammadi  Alessandro Del Piero  Alberto Gilardino  Fabio Grosso  Vincenzo Iaquinta  Filippo Inzaghi  Andrea Pirlo  Francesco Totti  Gianluca Zambrotta  Shunsuke Nakamura  Keiji Tamada  Ahn Jung-Hwan  Lee Chun-Soo  Park Ji-Sung  Francisco Fonseca  Rafael Márquez  Zinha  Ruud van Nistelrooy  Robin van Persie  Arjen Robben

Nelson Cuevas  Deco  Nuno Gomes  Pauleta  Cristiano Ronaldo  Simão  Sami Al-Jaber  Yasser Al-Qahtani  Saša Ilić  Nikola Žigić  Xabi Alonso  Juanito  Raúl  Marcus Allbäck  Henrik Larsson  Fredrik Ljungberg  Tranquillo Barnetta  Philippe Senderos  Mohamed Kader  Radhi Jaïdi  Ziad Jaziri  Jaouhar Mnari  Clint Dempsey  Maksym Kalynychenko  Sergiy Rebrov  Andriy Rusol

Own goals

•  Cristian Zaccardo (for United States)
•  Carlos Gamarra (for England)
•  Petit (for Germany)
•  Brent Sancho (for Paraguay)

[edit]Awards

Golden Boot Winner	Golden Ball Winner	Yashin Award	Best Young Player	FIFA Fair Play Trophy	Most Entertaining Team
Miroslav Klose	Zinedine Zidane	Gianluigi Buffon	Lukas Podolski	Brazil  Spain	Portugal

FIFA's Technical Study Group (TSG) also granted a Man of the Match award to one player in each match. Italy's Andrea Pirlo won the most Man of the Match awards, with three in total. Miroslav Klose, Agustin Delgado, Arjen Robben, Zé Roberto, Alexander Frei, Michael Ballack, and Patrick Vieira each received two awards.

[edit]All-star team

The All-star team is a squad consisting of the 23 most impressive players at the 2006 World Cup, as selected by FIFA's Technical Study Group. The team was chosen from a shortlist of over 50 players, and was selected based on performances from the second round onwards.^[22][23]

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Gianluigi Buffon  Jens Lehmann  Ricardo	Roberto Ayala  John Terry  Lilian Thuram  Philipp Lahm  Fabio Cannavaro  Gianluca Zambrotta  Ricardo Carvalho	Zé Roberto  Patrick Vieira  Zinedine Zidane  Michael Ballack  Andrea Pirlo  Gennaro Gattuso  Francesco Totti  Luís Figo  Maniche	Hernán Crespo  Thierry Henry  Miroslav Klose  Luca Toni

[edit]Team rankings

All 32 teams are ranked based on criteria which have been used by FIFA.^[24]

R	Team	G	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts.
Final
1	Italy	E	7	5	2	0	12	2	+10	17
2	France	G	7	4	3	0	9	3	+6	15
3rd and 4th place
3	Germany	A	7	5	1	1	14	6	+8	16
4	Portugal	D	7	4	1	2	7	5	+2	13
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5	Brazil	F	5	4	0	1	10	2	+8	12
6	Argentina	C	5	3	2	0	11	3	+8	11
7	England	B	5	3	2	0	6	2	+4	11
8	Ukraine	H	5	2	1	2	5	7	-1	7
Eliminated in the round of 16
9	Spain	H	4	3	0	1	9	4	+5	9
10	Switzerland	G	4	2	2	0	4	0	+4	8
11	Netherlands	C	4	2	1	1	3	2	+1	7
12	Ecuador	A	4	2	0	2	5	4	+1	6
13	Ghana	E	4	2	0	2	4	6	−2	6
14	Sweden	B	4	1	2	1	3	4	−1	5
15	Mexico	D	4	1	1	2	5	5	0	4
16	Australia	F	4	1	1	2	5	6	−1	4
Eliminated in the group stage
17	South Korea	G	3	1	1	1	3	4	-1	4
18	Paraguay	B	3	1	0	2	2	2	0	3
19	Côte d'Ivoire	C	3	1	0	2	5	6	-1	3
20	Czech Republic	E	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	3
21	Poland	A	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
22	Croatia	F	3	0	2	1	2	3	-1	2
23	Angola	D	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2
24	Tunisia	H	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1
25	United States	E	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
25	Iran	D	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
27	Trinidad and Tobago	B	3	0	1	2	0	4	−4	1
28	Japan	F	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1
28	Saudi Arabia	H	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1
30	Togo	G	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0
31	Costa Rica	A	3	0	0	3	3	9	−6	0
32	Serbia and Montenegro	C	3	0	0	3	2	10	−8	0