2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Match 45 Group G Portugal Vs Ghana Thursday June 26,2014

 

Portugal Vs Ghana at Estadio Nacional, Brasilia

Managers

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

• Ghana and Portugal have never met in an international match.

Portugal

• The draw with the USA represented the first time Portugal had failed to win a World Cup match after taking the lead.
• They have won only one of their last nine World Cup games (D4, L4).
• Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 11 goals in his last 10 matches for Portugal, but none in his last three. He had seven shots against USA, but only one was on target.
• He is the only player in Portugal's squad with more than one World Cup goal. Hugo Almeida, Raul Meireles, Nani and Silvestre Varela have one.
• Nani's goal against USA was the first scored by Portugal in a World Cup match for 276 minutes.
• Portugal recorded a pass accuracy of 88.1% against USA, their best rate in a World Cup game since such records began in 1966.

Ghana

• Ghana are one of only four teams to have taken part in more than one World Cup and not been eliminated in the group stage - along with Germany, Netherlands and Republic of Ireland.
• Asamoah Gyan should make his 11th World Cup appearance, which would equal the African record held by Francois Omam Biyik of Cameroon.
• Gyan has five World Cup goals and needs one more to overtake Roger Milla as the all-time top African goalscorer at the tournament. He is the only African to have scored in three World Cups.

• Ghana could progress to the last 16 if they beat Portugal and Germany beat the Americans. However, should the US lose by one goal and Ghana win with the same scoreline then the US would go through by virtue of their better head-to-head record against the Black Stars. USA could also go through on goals scored if they are in a high scoring match.
• The Africans could also qualify at the expense of the Germans if compatriot Jurgen Klinsmann's United States side record a large victory.
• Portugal, who needed a last-minute equaliser against the US to avoid being knocked out, must beat Ghana and overturn a five-goal difference on the Americans.

Portugal beats Ghana 2-1
Goal Scorers
For Portugal - John Boye 30th minute own goal and Cristiano Ronaldo(80)

For Ghana - Asamoah Gyan (57)

Both Portugal and Ghana miss out on last 16 as USA secured second place despite losing 1-0 to Germany