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Brazil 2-1 Italy - June 24, 1978 / World Cup 1978

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World Cup 1978 - 3rd/4th place

Estadio Monumental - Buenos Aires - Argentina

June 24, 1978

76 000

Brazil

2 - 1

Italy

Assist by Roberto Dinamite (right foot) Nelinho

64'

Assist by Jorge Pinto Mendonça (left foot) Dirceu

72'

38'

Franco Causio (header) Assist by Paolo Rossi

logo Brazil BRA

38' - Goal Franco Causio

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46' - Substitution Gilis substituted by Reinaldo46

64' - Goal Nelinho photo Roberto Rivellino

64' - Substitution Dias dos Santos Toninhois substituted by Roberto Rivellino64

72' - Goal Dirceu72

78' - Substitution Giancarlo Antognoniis substituted by Claudio Sala

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match

Brazil

2 - 1

Italy

Brazil Italy

Team line-ups

Brazil

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Dirceu72

Dirceu

Brazil

B.date15/06/1952

Age26 years

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Roberto Dinamite

Brazil

B.date13/04/1954

Age24 years

H1m86

positionForward

Gil46

Gil

Brazil

B.date24/12/1950

Age27 years

positionForward

Mendonça

Jorge Pinto Mendonça

Brazil

B.date06/06/1954

Age24 years

positionForward

Batista

João Batista

Brazil

B.date08/03/1955

Age23 years

positionLeft central midfielder

Amaral

João Justino Amaral

Brazil

B.date25/12/1954

Age23 years

H1m79

positionCentral defender

Rodrigo Neto

Brazil

B.date06/12/1949

Age28 years

positionFull-back

Oscar

Brazil

B.date20/06/1954

Age24 years

H1m90

positionLeft central defender

Toninho64

Dias dos Santos Toninho

Brazil

B.date07/06/1948

Age30 years

H1m76

positionCentral defender

Nelinho64

Nelinho

Brazil

B.date26/07/1950

Age27 years

H1m84

positionRight full-back

Leão

Brazil

B.date11/07/1949

Age28 years

H1m79

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Leão		28	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dias dos Santos Toninho	64	30	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Oscar		24	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	João Justino Amaral		23	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nelinho	64	27	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Rodrigo Neto		28	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	João Batista		23	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dirceu	72	26	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gil	46	27	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Roberto Dinamite		24	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jorge Pinto Mendonça		24	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Italy

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Bettega

Roberto Bettega

Italy

B.date27/12/1950

Age27 years

H1m84

positionForward

Rossi

Paolo Rossi

Italy

B.date23/09/1956

Age21 years

H1m77

positionStriker

Antognoni78

Giancarlo Antognoni

Italy

B.date01/04/1954

Age24 years

H1m79

positionRight central midfielder

P. Sala

Patrizio Sala

Italy

B.date16/06/1955

Age23 years

positionMidfield

Causio38

Franco Causio

Italy

B.date01/02/1949

Age29 years

H1m72

positionRight central midfielder

Cabrini

Antonio Cabrini

Italy

B.date08/10/1957

Age20 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Maldera

Aldo Maldera

Italy

B.date14/10/1953

Age24 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

Gentile

Claudio Gentile

Italy

B.date27/09/1953

Age24 years

H1m82

positionVersatile Defender

Cuccureddu

Antonello Cuccureddu

Italy

B.date04/10/1949

Age28 years

H1m80

positionVersatile Defender

Scirea

Gaetano Scirea

Italy

B.date25/05/1953

Age25 years

H1m78

positionSweeper

Zoff

Dino Zoff

Italy

B.date28/02/1942

Age36 years

H1m82

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Dino Zoff		36	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gaetano Scirea		25	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Antonello Cuccureddu		28	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Claudio Gentile		24	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Antonio Cabrini		20	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Aldo Maldera		24	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Giancarlo Antognoni	78	24	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Patrizio Sala		23	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Franco Causio	38	29	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Paolo Rossi		21	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Roberto Bettega		27	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Roberto Rivellino	64	32	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Reinaldo	46	21	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Claudio Sala	78	30	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Rodrigo Neto

Zico

OUT

Jorge Pinto Mendonça

Toninho Cerezo

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Aldo Maldera

Marco Tardelli

OUT

Giancarlo Antognoni

Renato Zaccarelli

OUT

Patrizio Sala

Romeo Benetti

OUT

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Manager

Age

Match num

Enzo Bearzot

Success rate in this team:

58 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

58 %

Bearzot vs Brazil

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on June 24, 1978

Referee

Abraham Klein

4 victories	0 draw	1 loss	Brazil5 matches	General total	Italy6 matches	5 victories	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Brazil1 match	Season total	Italy2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on July 05, 1982					Latest figure on July 05, 1982

Videos

June 13, 2010

Comments

Key figures

It's the first time Franco Causio scores 1 goal vs in his professional career

It's the first time Franco Causio scores a goal in his professional career with since the 03/12/1977 (with vs )

Brazil keeps its 3 matches with at least one goal scored vs Italy in World Cup running (since 16/06/1938). It's a record streak. The first of history

Read the next 23 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Neutral ground

VBrazil 8-0 Bolivia14/07/1977

DSweden 1-1 Brazil03/06/1978

DBrazil 0-0 Spain07/06/1978

VBrazil 1-0 Austria11/06/1978

VBrazil 3-0 Peru14/06/1978

VPoland 1-3 Brazil21/06/1978

Overall

DSweden 1-1 Brazil03/06/1978

DBrazil 0-0 Spain07/06/1978

VBrazil 1-0 Austria11/06/1978

VBrazil 3-0 Peru14/06/1978

DBrazil 0-0 Argentina18/06/1978

VPoland 1-3 Brazil21/06/1978

Current form

Neutral ground

LBrazil 4-1 Italy31/05/1976

VItaly 2-1 France02/06/1978

VHungary 1-3 Italy06/06/1978

DItaly 0-0 Germany14/06/1978

VItaly 1-0 Austria18/06/1978

LNetherlands 2-1 Italy21/06/1978

Overall

VItaly 2-1 France02/06/1978

VHungary 1-3 Italy06/06/1978

VArgentina 0-1 Italy10/06/1978

DItaly 0-0 Germany14/06/1978

VItaly 1-0 Austria18/06/1978

LNetherlands 2-1 Italy21/06/1978

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Winning streak	3	1
Unbeaten streak	9	10
Drawless streak	3	1
Scoring streak	3	1
Conceding streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	1	1
Drawless streak	2	2
Scoring streak	2	2
Conceding streak	1	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

6	Number of games (Competition total)	6
3	Victories (Competition total)	4
3	Draws (Competition total)	1
0	Losses (Competition total)	1

Goals

8	Goals scored (Competition total)	8
2	Goals conceded (Competition total)	4
1.33	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.33
0.33	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.67

Betting aid

2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	3
4	Clean sheets (Competition total)	3
2	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	3

Bookings

5	Yellow cards (Competition total)	5
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0

Key players

Roberto Dinamite	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	3 goals	Paolo Rossi
Roberto Dinamite	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Paolo Rossi
Zico	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Zico	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Toninho Cerezo	2 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	2 assists	Franco Causio
Toninho Cerezo	2 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	2 assists	Franco Causio
Roberto Dinamite	3 goals during the last 4 matches	The fittest player	3 goals, 1 assist during the last 6 matches	Paolo Rossi

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

0 ga

Away

3 matches

0 v

0 d

3 l

0 gf

8 ga

Neutral ground

3 matches

2 v

0 d

1 l

9 gf

4 ga

Total

7 matches

3 v

0 d

4 l

11 gf

12 ga

Historical head to head

Home

3 matches

3 v

0 d

0 l

8 gf

0 ga

Away

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

2 ga

Neutral ground

3 matches

1 v

0 d

2 l

4 gf

9 ga

Total

7 matches

4 v

0 d

3 l

12 gf

11 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	May 31, 1976
Neutral ground	4 - 1	May 31, 1976

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	May 12, 1963
Neutral ground	2 - 1	June 16, 1938

Latest head to head

May 31, 1976 - Rencontres amicales 1976

Brazil

4 - 1

Italy

June 09, 1973 - Rencontres amicales 1973

Italy

2 - 0

Brazil

June 21, 1970 - Coupe du Monde 1970

Brazil

4 - 1

Italy

May 12, 1963 - Rencontres amicales 1963

Italy

3 - 0

Brazil

July 01, 1956 - Rencontres amicales 1956

Brazil

2 - 0

Italy

Best historical scorers against Italy

Gil	2 goals	1976 - 1976
Zico	1 goal	1976 - 1976
Gérson	1 goal	1970 - 1970
Pelé	1 goal	1970 - 1970
Pellicciari Romeu	1 goal	1938 - 1938
Canario	1 goal	1956 - 1956

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/06/1938. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Brazil

Fabio Capello	2 goals	1973 - 1976
Giuseppe Virgili	2 goals	1956 - 1956
Giuseppe Meazza	1 goal	1938 - 1938
Sandro Mazzola	1 goal	1963 - 1963
Giacomo Bulgarelli	1 goal	1963 - 1963
Luigi Riva	1 goal	1973 - 1973

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/06/1938. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Italy

Gilmar	3 matches	1956 - 1963
Roberto Rivellino	3 matches	1970 - 1976
Nilton Santos	2 matches	1956 - 1956
Didi	2 matches	1956 - 1956
Clodoaldo	2 matches	1970 - 1973
Jairzinho	2 matches	1970 - 1973

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/06/1938. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Brazil

Giacinto Facchetti	4 matches	1963 - 1976
Sandro Mazzola	3 matches	1963 - 1973
Gianni Rivera	3 matches	1963 - 1973
Giovanni Viola	2 matches	1956 - 1956
Sergio Cervato	2 matches	1956 - 1956
Gaudenzio Bernasconi	2 matches	1956 - 1956

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/06/1938. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

José Altafini

8 matches

6 matches

1957 - 1962

Total : 1 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/06/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

José Altafini

8 matches

6 matches

1957 - 1962

Total : 1 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/06/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

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Brazil 2-1 Italy - June 24, 1978 / World Cup 1978

Brazil

2 - 1

Italy

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Bearzot vs Brazil

Referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Italy

Best historical scorers against Brazil

Players with most games played vs Italy

Players with most games played vs Brazil

They played in both sides

They played in both sides