Managers:
Jorge Sampaoli (Chile)
Ange Postecoglou (Australia)
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head- Australia's first-ever point in a World Cup group came in a 0-0 draw against Chile in June 1974. It remains the Socceroos' only clean sheet in 10 World Cup matches.
- Australia have never beaten La Roja in any competition, drawing that World Cup match and losing three other friendlies so far.
- Since their third-place finish in 1962, Chile have only won two of their 17 World Cup games (D6, L9) - against Honduras and Switzerland in 2010.
- Chile have lost against a subsequent finalist in each of their last three World Cup appearances (West Germany in 1982, Brazil in 1998 and Spain in 2010).
- Arturo Vidal was the top scoring midfielder in South American qualifying, with five goals.
- Chile conceded more goals (1.56 per game) in qualifying than any other of the 32 participants in Brazil.
- But only Argentina (35) scored more goals than their 29.
- They only drew one of their 16 qualifiers - a 3-3 draw with Columbia.
- Australia are the lowest ranked side at the World Cup (62nd).
- The Socceroos have only won two of their 10 games at World Cups (D3, L5) - against Japan in 2006 (3-1) and Serbia in 2010 (2-1).
- Australia's last 8 World Cup games have produced 7 Red cards (four for the Socceroos, three for their opponents).
- The average number of caps in the squad when it was announced was just 17 per player.
- Mark Bresciano and Tim Cahill could become the first Australians to play in three World Cups.
Chile beats Australia 3-1
Goal Scorers
For Chile -Alexis Sanchez,Jorge Valdivia and Jean Beausejour
For Australia - Tim Cahill
Living up
to their 'dark horses' tag, Chile raced into a two-goal lead inside 16
minutes as Barcelona star Sanchez scored one and created another for
Jorge Valdivia.
But
the South Americans couldn't convert their possession into further
goals and were caught cold when Tim Cahill headed Australia back into
contention before half-time.
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