Preliminary player ratings Argentina 1-0 Iran.

1-0 90' Lionel Messi l. (Ezequiel Lavezzi). Ref: Milorad Mažić (Serbia) 5,05. Att: 57.698 (Mineirão, Belo Horizonte).

Argentina: Sergio Romero 6,83 - Ezequiel Garay 5,79, Marcos Rojo 6,00, Federico Fernández 5,54, Pablo Zabaleta 5,45, Fernando Gago 5,38, Ángel Di María 6,20 (90' Lucas Biglia), Javier Mascherano 5,72, Gonzalo Higuaí­n 4,87 (77' Rodrigo Palacio), Lionel Messi 6,73, Kun Agüero 4,98 (77' Ezequiel Lavezzi). - coach: Alejandro Sabella 5,42. = average: 5,77 [mediocre]

Iran: Alireza Haghighi 6,99 - Jalal Hosseini 6,52, Amir-Hossein Sadeghi 6,45, Mehrdad Pouladi 6,27, Ehsan Hajsafi 6,20 (88' Reza Haghighi), Javad Nekounam 6,28, Andranik Teymourian 6,53, Pejman Montazeri 6,36, Masoud Shojaei 6,28 (77' Khosro Heydari), Reza Ghoochannejhad 6,45, Ashkan Dejagah 6,81 (85' Alireza Jahanbakhsh). - coach: Carlos Queiroz 6,75. = average: 6,47 [very good]