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Costa Rica 1-1 Greece · World Cup 2026

Costa Rica drew 1-1 with Greece in the World Cup 2026. Full match statistics, the goal timeline and both lineups are below.

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Match report

Costa Rica and Greece met in the World Cup 2026 at Arena de Pernambuco in São Lourenço da Mata on Sunday, 29 June 2014.

Goalscorers

Costa Rica: B. Ruiz 52'. Greece: S. Papastathopoulos 90'.

How the match went

The referee showed 8 yellow cards (6 for Costa Rica, 2 for Greece).

Line-ups

Costa Rica started in a 3-4-3: Keylor Navas, Óscar Duarte, Giancarlo González, Michael Umaña, Cristian Gamboa, Yeltsin Tejeda, Celso Borges, Júnior Díaz, Bryan Ruiz, Joel Campbell, Christian Bolaños.

Greece started in a 4-3-3: Orestis Karnezis, Vasilīs Torosidīs, Konstantinos Manolas, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, José Holebas, Giannis Maniatis, G. Karagounis, Andreas Samaris, Dimitrios Salpingidis, Georgios Samaras, Lazaros Christodoulopoulos.

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Minute by minute

  1. 45'Half-time. Costa Rica 0-0 Greece.
  2. 52'Goal! Costa Rica 1-0 Greece. B. Ruiz (Costa Rica) scores, assisted by C. Bolaños.
  3. 66'Second yellow card for Ó. Duarte (Costa Rica), who is sent off.
  4. 90+1'Goal! Costa Rica 1-1 Greece. S. Papastathopoulos (Greece) scores.
  5. 90'Full-time. Costa Rica 1-1 Greece.
  6. 120'End of extra time. Costa Rica 1-1 Greece.
Full commentary (21 lines)
  1. 1'Kick-off: Costa Rica vs Greece.
  2. 0'Yellow card for Ó. E. Granados (Costa Rica) for argument.
  3. 36'Yellow card for A. Samaris (Greece) for foul.
  4. 42'Yellow card for Ó. Duarte (Costa Rica) for foul.
  5. 45'Half-time. Costa Rica 0-0 Greece.
  6. 46'The second half is under way.
  7. 48'Yellow card for Y. Tejeda (Costa Rica) for foul.
  8. 52'Goal! Costa Rica 1-0 Greece. B. Ruiz (Costa Rica) scores, assisted by C. Bolaños.
  9. 58'Substitution, Greece: K. Mitroglou comes on for A. Samaris.
  10. 66'Second yellow card for Ó. Duarte (Costa Rica), who is sent off.
  11. 66'Substitution, Costa Rica: J. Cubero comes on for Y. Tejeda.
  12. 69'Substitution, Greece: T. Gekas comes on for D. Salpingidis.
  13. 70'Yellow card for B. Ruiz (Costa Rica) for time wasting.
  14. 72'Yellow card for K. Manolas (Greece) for foul.
  15. 77'Substitution, Costa Rica: J. Acosta comes on for C. Gamboa.
  16. 78'Substitution, Greece: K. Katsouranis comes on for G. Maniatis.
  17. 83'Substitution, Costa Rica: R. Brenes comes on for C. Bolaños.
  18. 90'Yellow card for K. Navas (Costa Rica) for time wasting.
  19. 90+1'Goal! Costa Rica 1-1 Greece. S. Papastathopoulos (Greece) scores.
  20. 90'Full-time. Costa Rica 1-1 Greece.
  21. 120'End of extra time. Costa Rica 1-1 Greece.
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