Turkey ratings in the World Cup

6,17 Uğurcan Çakır

6,08 Abdülkerim Bardakcı

5,92 Kenan Yıldız, Hakan Çalhanoğlu 

5,83 Arda Güler

5,75 Ferdi Kadıoğlu

5,58 Merih Demiral

5,50 Yunus Akgün

5,42 Barış Alper Yılmaz

5,17 İsmail Yüksek

5,00 Kerem Aktürkoğlu

Morocco ratings efter two matches

7,25 Ismael Saibari

7,00 Brahim Díaz

6,67 Achraf Hakimi, Ayyoub Bouaddi

6,58 Noussair Mazraoui

6,50 Chadi Riad, Neil El Aynaoui

6,42 Yassine Bounou, Azzedine Ounahi

6,17 Issa Diop

6,08 Bilal El Khannouss

Player ratings Brazil 1-1 Morocco

 

0-1 Ismael Saibari (Brahim Díaz), 1-1 32' Vinícius Junior

 (Bruno Guimarães). Att: 80.663 (New-Jersey).

Brazil: Alisson Becker 6,70 - Ibañez 5,40 (46' Danilo 6,10), Marquinhos 6,00, Gabriel Magalhães 5,80, Douglas Santos 6,10 - Casemiro 5,10 (46' Fabinho 6,10), Bruno Guimarães 6,20 (80' Danilo Santos) - Raphinha 5,60, Lucas Paquetá 5,60 (60' Luiz Henrique 5,80), Vinícius Júnior 7,10 - Igor Thiago 5,20 (60' Matheus Cunha 5,80). - coach: Carlo Ancelotti. = average: 5,91 [vulnerable]

Morocco: Bono 6,50 - Achraf Hakimi 6,70, Issa Diop 5,90,Chadi  Riad 6,10, Noussair Mazraoui 6,40 (80' Anass Salah-Eddine) - Ayyoub Bouaddi 7,00, Neil El Aynaoui 6,30 - Brahim Díaz 6,90 (64' Chemsdine Talbi 6,00), Azzedine Ounahi 6,60 (64' Samir El Mourabet 6,20), Bilal El Khannouss 6,20 (80' Ayoube Amaimouni) - Ismael Saibari 7,20 (89' Soufiane Rahimi). - coach: Mohamed Ouahbi. = 6,47 [very good]

 

The World Cup Invincibles

Percentage of lost games at World Cups 1930-2022 (min. 13 games played)

6,2% Roberto Baggio    

6,7% Didi

7,1% Pelé, Zico, Kylian Mbappé  

7,7% Neymar

8,3% Garrincha

11,1% Franz Beckenbauer

11,8% Thierry Henry     

13,0% Paolo Maldini     

13,3% Arjen Robben    

14,3% Paolo Rossi, Terry Butcher    

15,0% Philipp Lahm    

15,4% Gerd Müller, David Beckham    

15,8% Berti Vogts, Ronaldo 

16,0% Lothar Matthäus   

16,7% Miroslav Klose   

17,6% Roberto Carlos    

18,8% Luis Suárez (Uruguay)

19,0% Uwe Seeler   

19,2% Leo Messi

20,0% Grzegorz Lato, Xavi

21,1% Luka Modrić     

21,4% Ruud Krol, Andrés Iniesta     

23,1% Kazimierz Deyna, Kevin De Bruyne   

23,8% Diego Maradona  

25,0% Jairzinho, Zbigniew Boniek    

26,3% Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

28,6% Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore 

31,8% Cristiano Ronaldo  

36,8% Rafa Márquez     

38,9% Mario Kempes    

46,2% Teófilo Cubillas    

 

1958 World Cup: combined goal & assist table

17: Just Fontaine (Fra) : 13 goals+4 assists

9: Raymond Kopa (Fra) : 3+6

7: Pelé (Bra) : 6+1 

7: Vavá (Bra) : 5+2

7: Kurt Hamrin (Swe) : 4+3

6: Helmut Rahn (BRD) : 6+0

6: Hans Schäfer (BRD) : 2+4

5: Peter McParland (Nir) : 5+0

5: Vaclav Hovorka (Cze) : 2+3

5: José Parodi (Par) : 2+3

4: Agne Simonsson (Swe) : 4+0

4: Zdeněk Zikán (Cze) : 4+0

4: Todor Veselinović (Yug) : 3+1

4: Oreste Corbatta (Arg) : 3+1

4: Lajos Tichy (Hun) : 3+1

4: Didi (Bra) : 1+3

4: Lennart "Nacka" Skoglund (Swe) : 1+3

4: Nils Liedholm (Swe) : 2+2

4: Roger Piantoni (Fra) : 2+2

3: Altafini ("Mazzola") : 2+1

3: Uwe Seeler (BRD) : 2+1

3: Jorge Romero (Par) : 2+1

3: Djalma Santos (Bra) : 1+2

3: Garrincha (Bra) : 0+3

West Germany ratings in the 1970 World Cup

 

7,46 Wolfgang Overath
7,35 Franz Beckenbauer
6,95 Jürgen Grabowski, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
6,75 Uwe Seeler
6,70 Sigfried Held
6,67 Willi Schulz
6,58 Gerd Müller
6,46 Berti Vogts
6,44 Reinhard Libuda
6,25 Hannes Löhr
6,20 Sepp Maier
6,06 Horst-Dieter Höttges

China ratings in the 2002 World Cup

5,98 Li Tie

5,88 Yang Chen

5,60 Li Weifeng, Zhao Junzhe

5,50 Jiang Jin, Ma Mingyu 

5,47 Hao Haidong

5,38 Xu Yunlong

5,37 Wu Chengying

5,35 Li Xiaopeng

5,20 Du Wei

Most sensational wins in World Cups 2002-2022

Average odds:

27,03 Saudi Arabia 2-1 Argentina (2022)

18,77 South Korea 2-0 Germany (2018)

13,73 Switzerland 1-0 Spain (2010)

8,91 Costa Rica 3-1 Uruguay (2014)

8,82 Senegal 1-0 France (2002)

8,73 Cameroon 1-0 Brazil (2022)

7,52 Australia 1-0 Denmark (2022)

7,46 USA 3-2 Portugal (2002)

7,33 Mexico 1-0 Germany (2018)

7,21 Japan 2-1 Germany (2022)

7,09 Japan 2-1 Spain (2022)

6,89 Slovakia 3-2 Italy (2010)

Cameroon ratings in the 1990 World Cup

6,94 Roger Milla

6,25 Cyrille Makanaky

6,24 Thomas N'Kono

6,21 François Omam-Biyik

6,14 Stephen Tataw 

6,11 Émile Mbouh

6,06 Louis-Paul M'Fédé

6,04 Benjamin Massing

5,98 Bertin Ebwellé

5,96 Victor N'Dip

5,93 Thomas Libiih

5,92 Emmanuel Kundé, Emmanuel Maboang

5,88 Jules Onana

5,85 André Kana-Biyik

5,81 Jean-Claude Pagal

Spain ratings in the 1998 World Cup

6,69 Hierro

6,53 Luis Enrique

6,50 Morientes

6,48 Aguilera

6,29 Sergi

6,12 Raúl, Nadal, Alfonso

6,10 Alkorta

6,04 Etxeberria

6,03 Zubizarreta 

5,98 Amor

Italy ratings in the 1994 World Cup

6,60 Roberto Baggio

6,49 Luca Marchegiani

6,41 Alessandro Costacurta, Luigi Apolloni

6,35 Dino Baggio

6,29 Paolo Maldini, Giuseppe Signori

6,27 Franco Baresi 

6,22 Antonio Benarrivo

6,17 Roberto Mussi

6,12 Antonio Conte

6,04 Demetrio Albertini

5,93 Daniele Massaro

5,89 Gianluca Pagliuca

5,87 Roberto Donadoni

5,54 Nicola Berti

5,48 Mauro Tassotti

5,35 Pierluigi Casiraghi

Brazil ratings in the 1990 World Cup

6,47 Taffarel 

6,40 Alemão 

6,20 Branco

6,11 Valdo II

6,06 Careca

6,02 Mozer

6,00 Dunga, Jorginho

5,99 Mauro Galvão

5,93 Müller

5,92 Ricardo Rocha 

5,86 Ricardo Gomes 

England ratings in the 1990 World Cup

6,54 Paul Gascoigne

6,35 David Platt

6,19 Mark Wright

6,17 Gary Lineker

6,13 Peter Shilton, Des Walker

6,10 Paul Parker

6,02 Stuart Pearce

5,93 Trevor Steven

5,87 Chris Waddle

5,80 John Barnes

5,79 Gary Stevens

5,77 Steve Bull

5,75 Terry Butcher

5,58 Bryan Robson 

5,52 Steve McMahon

5,45 Peter Beardsley

Top rated players in the 1998 World Cup

At least 4 rated appearances. Source: Guerin Sportivo.

7,12 Luis Hernández (4, Mex)

7,10 Zinédine Zidane (5, Fra), Gianluca Pagliuca (5, Ita)

7,08 Lilian Thuram (6, Fra)

7,00 Christian Vieri (5, Ita)

6,88 Roberto Baggio (4, Ita), José Luis Chilavert (4, Par), Vladimir Jugović (4, Yug)

6,80 Luigi Di Biagio (5, Ita), Oliver Bierhoff (5, Ger)

6,75 Emmanuel Petit (6, Fra), Edgar Davids (6, Ned), Michael Owen (4, Eng)

6,67 Didier Deschamps (6, Fra)

6,62 Miguel Ángel Benítez (4, Par), Jesús Arellano, Cuauhtémoc Blanco (4, Mex)

6,60 Paolo Maldini (5, Ita), Martin Jørgensen, Michael Laudrup (5, Den)

6,57 Aimé Jacquet (Fra), Ronaldo (7, Bra), Davor Šuker (7, Cro)

European topscorers in the 1974 World Cup

Qualifiers included.

  10 goals: 

Johan Cruyff (Holland)

  9 goals: 

Johan Neeskens (Holland), Joachim Streich (East Germany)

  8 goals: 

Grzegorz Lato (Poland), Hristo Bonev (Bulgaria)

  7 goals: 

Ralf Edström (Sweden), Gigi Riva (Italy)

  6 goals: 

Roland Sandberg (Sweden), Dušan Bajević (Yugoslavia)

  5 goals: 

Willy Brokamp (Holland), Andrzej Szarmach (Poland), Jürgen Sparwasser (East Germany), Raoul Lambert (Belgium), Florea Dumitrache (Romania)

  4 goals: 

Gerd Müller (West Germany), Johnny Rep (Holland), Stanislav Karasi (Yugoslavia)

  3 goals:

 Paul Breitner (West Germany), Bo Larsson (Sweden), Ivica Šurjak (Yugoslavia), Gianni Rivera (Italy), Georgi Denev (Bulgaria), Joe Jordan (Scotland), Ferenc Bene (Hungary), Josef Hickersberger & Kurt Jara (Austria), Zdenek Nehoda & Bohumil Veselý (Czechoslovakia)

  2 goals: 

Wolfgang Overath (West Germany), Theo de Jong & Wim van Hanegem (Holland), Robert Gadocha & Jan Domarski (Poland), Josip Katalinski (Yugoslavia), Fabio Capello & Pietro Anastasi (Italy), Hans-Jürgen Kreische, Wolfram Löwe & Bernd Bransch (East Germany), Peter Lorimer (Scotland), Bozhil Kolev (Bulgaria), Odilon Polleunis & Léon Dolmans (Belgium), Nené & Rui Jordão (Portugal), Volodymyr Onyshchenko (USSR), Lajos Kocsis & Sándor Zámbó (Hungary), August Starek (Austria), Osman Arpacıoğlu (Turkey), Ion Dumitru & Mircea Sandu (Romania), Rubén Óscar Valdez & Enrique Claramunt (Spain), Trevor Anderson (Northern Ireland), Terry Conroy (Ireland), Harry Hestad (Norway).

NB: No English player scored more than one goal.

Romania ratings in the 1994 World Cup

 

7,10 Gheorghe Hagi
6,60 Florin Răducioiu
6,25 Miodrag Belodedici, Bogdan Stelea
6,15 Ioan Lupescu
6,10 Dan Petrescu
6,00 Gheorghe Popescu
5,90 Daniel Prodan, Ilie Dumitrescu
5,75 Florin Prunea

European topscorers in the 1950 World Cup

 

Including Qualifiers.

7: Calle Palmér (Sweden, photo), Telmo Zarra (Spain)
6: Željko Čajkovski (Yugoslavia)
5: Jacques Fatton (Switzerland), Estanislao Basora (Spain)
4: Stan Mortensen & Jack Rowley (England), Stjepan Bobek (Yugoslavia)
3: Egon Jönsson, Sune Andersson, Hans Jeppson, Ingvar Rydell & Stig Sundqvist (Sweden), Silvestre Igoa (Spain), Milutin Pajević (Yugoslavia), Jackie Milburn (England), Con Martin & Samuel Smyth (Ireland), Henry Morris (Scotland), Fahreddin Cansever (Turkey)
2: René Maillard & Charles Antenen (Switzerland), Riccardo Carapellese (Italy), Stan Pearson (England), Kosta Tomašević (Yugoslavia), Henri Baillot (France), Jarmo Vaihela (Finland)

Average ratings 2018 World Cup (The Guardian)

 

At least four rated appearances.  

8,00 Eden Hazard (Bel), Luka Modrić (Cro)
7,67 Kevin De Bruyne (Bel)
7,57 Thibaut Courtois (Bel), Ivan Perisić (Cro)
7,50 Sime Vrsaljko, Danijel Subasić (Cro), Guillermo Ochoa (Mex), Aleksandr Golovin (Rus), Yann Sommer (Sui)
7,43 Ivan Rakitić (Cro), Kylian Mbappé (Fra)
7,40 Thomas Meunier (Bel)
7,33 Hugo Lloris (Fra), Romelu Lukaku (Bel), Mario Mandžukić, Ante Rebić, Domagoj Vida (Cro), Kieran Trippier (Eng)
7,29 N’Golo Kanté (Fra), Jordan Pickford (Eng)
7,25 Kasper Schmeichel (Den), Cristiano Ronaldo (Por)
7,20 Marouane Fellaini (Bel), Artem Dzyuba (Rus), Diego Godín (Uru)
7,17 Paul Pogba (Fra), Marcelo Brozović (Cro)
7,14 Raphaël Varane, Antoine Griezmann (Fra)
 

Top 30 players of the 1970 World Cup

 

1. Pelé (Bra)
2. Gerd Müller (BRD)
3. Carlos Alberto Torres (Bra)
4. Jairzinho (Bra)
5. Gérson (Bra)
6. Franz Beckenbauer (BRD)
7. Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (Uru)
8. Uwe Seeler (BRD)
9. Rivelino (Bra)
10. Wolfgang Overath (BRD)
11. Teófilo Cubillas (Per)
12. Giacinto Facchetti (Ita)
13. Clodoaldo (Bra)
14. Angelo Domenghini (Ita)
15. Juan Mujica (Uru)
16. Reinhard "Stan" Libuda (BRD)
17. Bobby Charlton (Eng)
18. Roberto Rosato (Ita)
19. Bobby Moore (Eng)
20. Gordon Banks (Eng)
21. Héctor Chumpitaz (Per)
22. Piazza (Bra)
23. Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (BRD)
24. Giancarlo "Picchio" De Sisti (Ita)
25. Gigi Riva (Ita)
26. Terry Cooper (Eng)
27. Pierluigi Cera (Ita)
28. Wilfried van Moer (Bel)
29. Tostão (Bra)
30. Atilio Ancheta (Uru)