2014 FIFA World Cup Round of 16 Costa Rica Vs Greece Sunday June 29,2014

 

Costa Rica Vs Greece at Recife

Managers
Costa Rica
Fernando Santos(Greece )

Match Facts

Head-to-head

• This will be the first ever meeting between Costa Rica and Greece.

Costa Rica

• Costa Rica have reached the last 16 of the World Cup only once before, in 1990, when they lost 4-1 to Czechoslovakia. Current squad members Yeltsin Tejeda, Joel Campbell, Waylon Francis and Diego Calvo were not born then.
• The last team from CONCACAF to go further than the last 16 at the World Cup are the USA in 2002.
• Costa Rica are yet to let in a goal from open play at this World Cup, having only conceded a penalty against Uruguay's Edinson Cavani. They conceded the equal fewest goals in the group stage along with Mexico and Belgium.
• Keylor Navas has saved seven of the eight shots on target he has faced in this World Cup.

Greece

• This is the first time that Greece have ever reached the knockout stage of the World Cup.
• Greece's seven wins at major tournaments have never been by more than one clear goal (four 1-0 victories and three 2-1 wins).
• They have only won two of their nine World Cup games, both 2-1 wins and both against African sides (v Nigeria in 2010 and Ivory Coast in 2014). Those victories are the only games in which they have managed to score.
• Their only clean sheet in those nine matches came against Japan earlier in this tournament.
• Greece are the only nation in the last 16 that ended the group phase with a negative goal difference (-2).
• Georgios Samaras' goal against Ivory Coast in Greece's last game ended his goalscoring drought of 1,478 minutes (24 hr 38 min) with the national team. His penalty against Ivory Coast is his only shot on target at this World Cup (270 minutes). 

Sokratis Papastathopoulos's injury-time equaliser for Greece had cancelled out Bryan Ruiz's side-footed opener and sent the game into extra time

Costa Rica are into the QF's of the 2014 FIFA World Cup for the first time in their history after beating Greece 5-3 in a penalty shootout in Recife. 

   Theofanis Gekas missed the decisive penalty, with Keylor Navas making a superb save

Costa Rica from a group containing England, Italy and Uruguay - go through to face the Netherlands on Saturday July 05,2014 for a place in the SF's

Squads

Costa Rica

• 01 Navas Booked
• 16 Gamboa (Acosta - 77' )
• 15 Díaz Campbell
• 04 Umaña
• 03 Gonzalez
• 06 Duarte Dismissed after an earlier booking
• 10 Ruiz Booked
• 17 Tejeda Valverde Booked (Cubero - 66' )
• 09 Campbell
• 05 Borges
• 07 Bolaños (Brenes - 83' )

Greece

• 01 Karnezis
• 15 Torosidis
• 20 Holebas
• 22 Samaris Booked (Mitroglou - 58' )
• 04 Manolas Booked
• 19 Papastathopoulos
• 14 Salpingidis (Gekas - 69' )
• 02 Maniatis (Katsouranis - 78' )
• 07 Samaras
• 10 Karagounis
• 16 Christodoulopoulos