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World Cup Final · 2026

Matchday 2 · World Cup 2026 · June 19, 2026

Goals only: this source has no shots, so the replay comes from each side's goals over the season.

United States 2–0 Australia: lucky or expected?

United States beat Australia 2–0, and the goals lean United States’s way: 5 wins in 10, 2 for Australia, 3 end level. Rated on this tournament’s goals, United States were expected to score 1.6 here and Australia 1.2. An own goal helped United States.

Full time

TeamGoals
United States 2
Australia 0

June 19, 2026

Luck index +41 United States lucky · −41 Australia

Our source has this match’s goals but not its shots, so it is replayed from what each side’s goals over the tournament say: both teams rated on every goal scored and conceded, and the match played again 4,000 times from those ratings. How often does this result come out? How the goals-only replay works

Ten replays. United States win 5, 3 end level, Australia win 2.

  1. 1 USA 3 AUS 2
  2. 2 USA 2 AUS 1
  3. 3 USA 2 AUS 0
  4. 4 USA 2 AUS 0
  5. 5 USA 6 AUS 2
  6. 6 USA 0 AUS 0
  7. 7 USA 1 AUS 1
  8. 8 USA 3 AUS 3
  9. 9 USA 1 AUS 3
  10. 10 USA 1 AUS 2

The goals

United States’s chance of winning

Numbers mark the goals, listed below.

Our in-game win probability: the score and the minutes left, with goals for the rest of the match at the league’s rates. A draw counts half, as in the replays. Shaded above the middle while United States was ahead in it, below while Australia was.
MinuteGoalScoreWin chance
1. 11' Cameron Burgess (United States, own goal) 1–0 +24% United States
2. 43' Alex Freeman (United States) 2–0 +15% United States

Win chance: the scoring side’s chance of winning the moment before the goal against the moment after it, from the score and the minutes left. A draw counts half.

About these numbers

Scores and goals from openfootball (public domain). It has no shots, so there is no expected goals for this match and no finishing luck: the replay, the in-game win probability and the luck index are our own models, built from the tournament’s goals alone (methodology and validation). The luck index is how far the result was from what the goals say. United States win 59% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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