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Portugal 2-0 Iran - June 17, 2006 / World Cup 2006

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World Cup 2006 - Round 2 - Group D

Commerzbank-Arena - Frankfurt - Germany

June 17, 2006

Portugal

2 - 0

Iran

Assist by Luis Figo (right foot) Deco

63'

(penalty) Cristiano Ronaldo

80'

logo Portugal POR

20' - Yellow card Javad Nekounam

32' - Yellow card Mehrzad Madanchi

45' - Yellow card Pauleta45

logo Portugal POR

48' - Yellow card Deco48

61' - Yellow card Costinha61

63' - Goal Deco63

65' - Substitution Ali Karimiis substituted by Ferrydoon Zandi

66' - Substitution Mehrzad Madanchiis substituted by Rasoul Khatibi

67' - Substitution Manicheis substituted by Armando Petit67

73' - Yellow card Hossein Kaebi

80' - Goal Cristiano Ronaldo photo Tiago

80' - Substitution Decois substituted by Tiago80

88' - Substitution Luis Figois substituted by Simão88

88' - Substitution Yahya Golmohammadiis substituted by Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh photo Yahya Golmohammadi

88' - Yellow card Yahya Golmohammadi

logo Iran IRA

Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Portugal

2 - 0

Iran

Portugal Iran

Team line-ups

Portugal

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Ronaldo80

Cristiano Ronaldo

Portugal

B.date05/02/1985

Age21 years

H1m85

positionRight Winger

Pauleta45

Pauleta

Portugal

B.date28/04/1973

Age33 years

H1m80

positionStriker

Figo88

Luis Figo

Portugal

B.date04/11/1972

Age33 years

H1m80

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Deco638048

Deco

Portugal

B.date27/08/1977

Age28 years

H1m77

positionLeft central midfielder

Maniche67

Maniche

Portugal

B.date11/11/1977

Age28 years

H1m79

positionRight central midfielder

Costinha61

Costinha

Portugal

B.date01/12/1974

Age31 years

H1m81

positionDefensive Midfielder

Valente

Nuno Valente

Portugal

B.date12/09/1974

Age31 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

Meira

Fernando Meira

Portugal

B.date05/06/1978

Age28 years

H1m92

positionLeft central defender

Carvalho

Ricardo Carvalho

Portugal

B.date18/05/1978

Age28 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Miguel

Portugal

B.date04/01/1980

Age26 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

Ricardo

Portugal

B.date11/02/1976

Age30 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Ricardo		30	51	9You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ricardo Carvalho		28	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Fernando Meira		28	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nuno Valente		31	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Miguel		26	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Costinha	61	31	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Maniche	67	28	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Deco	638048	28	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Luis Figo	88	33	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Cristiano Ronaldo	80	21	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Pauleta	45	33	84	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Iran

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Hashemian

Vahid Hashemian

Iran

B.date21/07/1976

Age29 years

H1m82

positionStriker

Mahdavikia

Medhi Mahdavikia

Iran

B.date24/07/1977

Age28 years

H1m72

positionRight Midfielder

Karimi65

Ali Karimi

Iran

B.date08/11/1978

Age27 years

H1m85

positionPlaymaker

Madanchi6632

Mehrzad Madanchi

Iran

B.date10/01/1985

Age21 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Nekounam20

Javad Nekounam

Iran

B.date07/09/1980

Age25 years

H1m86

positionLeft central midfielder

Teymourian

Andranik Teymourian

Iran

B.date06/03/1983

Age23 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Nosrati

Mohammed Nosrati

Iran

B.date10/01/1981

Age25 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Rezaei

Rahman Rezaei

Iran

B.date20/02/1975

Age31 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

Golmohammadi8888

Yahya Golmohammadi

Iran

B.date19/03/1971

Age35 years

H1m78

positionCentral defender

Kaebi73

Hossein Kaebi

Iran

B.date23/12/1985

Age20 years

H1m67

positionRight full-back

Mirzapour

Ebrahim Mirzapour

Iran

B.date16/09/1978

Age27 years

H1m95

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Ebrahim Mirzapour		27	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Yahya Golmohammadi	8888	35	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Rahman Rezaei		31	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mohammed Nosrati		25	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Hossein Kaebi	73	20	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Andranik Teymourian		23	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mehrzad Madanchi	6632	21	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Medhi Mahdavikia		28	90	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Javad Nekounam	20	25	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ali Karimi	65	27	92	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Vahid Hashemian		29	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Armando Petit	67	29	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tiago	80	25	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Simão	88	26	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Hassan Roudbarian		27
G	Vahid Talebloo		24
D	Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh	88	31	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Amir-Hossein Sadeghi		24
M	Masoud Shojaei		22
M	Ferrydoon Zandi	65	27	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Moharram Navidkia		23
F	Rasoul Khatibi	66	27	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Javad Kazemian		25
F	Arash Borhani		22
F	Ali Daei		37
F	Gholam Reza Enayati		29

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Deco

Tiago

OUT

Maniche

Armando Petit

OUT

Costinha

Simão

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Mehrzad Madanchi

Ali Daei

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Luiz Felipe Scolari

Success rate in this team:

64 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Scolari vs Iran

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on June 17, 2006

Scolari vs Ivankovic

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on June 17, 2006

Manager

Age

Match num

Branko Ivankovic

Success rate in this team:

63 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Ivankovic vs Portugal

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on June 17, 2006

Ivankovic vs Scolari

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on June 17, 2006

Referee

Eric Poulat

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Portugal1 match	General total	Iran1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Portugal1 match	Season total	Iran1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on June 17, 2006					Latest figure on June 17, 2006

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August 13, 2015

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Key figures

It's the first time Deco scores a goal in his professional career with since the 13/10/2004 (with vs )

It's the first time Cristiano Ronaldo scores 1 goal in World Cup

Portugal keeps its 9 matches with at least one goal scored running (since 08/10/2005). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 10/09/2003-30/06/2004 time period (14 matches).

Read the next 29 key stats

General ranking

+1	1	Portugal	6 pts	2 rd
-1	2	Mexico	4 pts	2 rd
	3	Angola	1 pt	2 rd
	4	Iran	0 pt	2 rd

General ranking

+1	1	Portugal	6 pts	2 rd
-1	2	Mexico	4 pts	2 rd
	3	Angola	1 pt	2 rd
	4	Iran	0 pt	2 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Neutral ground

VPortugal 2-0 China25/05/2002

LPortugal 2-3 United States05/06/2002

VPortugal 4-0 Poland10/06/2002

VPortugal 1-0 North Macedonia02/04/2003

VPortugal 3-0 Luxembourg03/06/2006

VAngola 0-1 Portugal11/06/2006

Overall

VPortugal 2-0 Croatia12/11/2005

DNorthern Ireland 1-1 Portugal15/11/2005

VSaudi Arabia 0-3 Portugal01/03/2006

VPortugal 4-1 Cape Verde27/05/2006

VPortugal 3-0 Luxembourg03/06/2006

VAngola 0-1 Portugal11/06/2006

Current form

Neutral ground

VIran 3-0 Thailand20/07/2004

DOman 2-2 Iran24/07/2004

DJapan 0-0 Iran28/07/2004

VSouth Korea 3-4 Iran31/07/2004

VIran 4-2 Bahrain06/08/2004

LMexico 3-1 Iran11/06/2006

Overall

VIran 2-0 Togo13/11/2005

VIran 4-0 Chinese Taipei22/02/2006

VIran 3-2 Costa Rica01/03/2006

DCroatia 2-2 Iran28/05/2006

VIran 5-2 Bosnia and Herzegovina31/05/2006

LMexico 3-1 Iran11/06/2006

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Winning streak	4	4
Unbeaten streak	4	15
Drawless streak	12	4
Scoring streak	12	8
Invincibility streak	4	2

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	1	1
Drawless streak	3	2
Scoring streak	3	6
Conceding streak	3	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

General ranking (Competition total)

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

1	Number of games (Competition total)	1
1	Victories (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	1

Goals

1	Goals scored (Competition total)	1
0	Goals conceded (Competition total)	3
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1
0	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	3

Betting aid

0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	1
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	1

Bookings

2	Yellow cards (Competition total)	1
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0

Key players

Pauleta	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Yahya Golmohammadi
Pauleta	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Yahya Golmohammadi
Luis Figo	1 assist	Player with most assists (Competition total)		-
Luis Figo	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)		-
Pauleta	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Yahya Golmohammadi

Historical head to head

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

0 ga

Total

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

0 ga

Historical head to head

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

3 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

3 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	June 14, 1972
Neutral ground	3 - 0	June 14, 1972

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

June 14, 1972 - Rencontres amicales 1972

Portugal

3 - 0

Iran

Best historical scorers against Iran

Eusebio	1 goal	1972 - 1972
Toni	1 goal	1972 - 1972
Dinis	1 goal	1972 - 1972

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 14/06/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Portugal

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 14/06/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Iran

Eusebio	1 match	1972 - 1972
Toni	1 match	1972 - 1972
Humberto Coelho	1 match	1972 - 1972
Adolfo Calisto	1 match	1972 - 1972
Nené	1 match	1972 - 1972
Artur Jorge	1 match	1972 - 1972