1978 FIFA World Cup knockout stage

The knockout stage of 1978 FIFA World Cup was a single-elimination tournament involving the four teams that qualified from the second group stage of the tournament. There were two matches: a match for third place contested by the group runners-up, and the final to decide the champions, contested by the group winners. The knockout stage began with the match for third place on 24 June and ended with the final on 25 June 1978, both at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires. Argentina won the tournament with a 3–1 victory over the Netherlands.[1]

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Qualified teams

The top two placed teams from each of the two groups of the second round qualified for the knockout stage.

Group Winners
(qualification for final) 		Runners-up
(qualification for match for third place)
A  Netherlands  Italy
B  Argentina  Brazil

Match for third place

As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, this is the most recent time when the match for third place was won by a non-European team.

See also: Brazil–Italy football rivalry
Brazil 2–1 Italy
Nelinho 64'
Dirceu 71'		 Report Causio 38'
Attendance: 69,659
Brazil
Italy
GK 1 Émerson Leão (c)
DF 13 Nelinho  35'
DF 3 Oscar
DF 4 Amaral
DF 16 Rodrigues Neto
MF 17 Batista  44'
MF 5 Toninho Cerezo  64'
MF 11 Dirceu
FW 18 Gil  45+1'
FW 19 Jorge Mendonça
FW 20 Roberto Dinamite
Substitutions:
FW 9 Reinaldo  45+1'
FW 10 Rivelino  64'
Manager:
Cláudio Coutinho
GK 1 Dino Zoff (c)
DF 6 Aldo Maldera
DF 3 Antonio Cabrini
DF 5 Claudio Gentile  72'
DF 8 Gaetano Scirea
MF 4 Antonello Cuccureddu
MF 13 Patrizio Sala
MF 9 Giancarlo Antognoni  78'
MF 16 Franco Causio
CF 18 Roberto Bettega
CF 21 Paolo Rossi
Substitutions:
MF 17 Claudio Sala  78'
Manager:
Enzo Bearzot

Assistant referees:
Alfonso González Archundia (Mexico)
Károly Palotai (Hungary)

Final

Main article: 1978 FIFA World Cup final
Argentina 3–1 (a.e.t.) Netherlands
Kempes 38', 105'
Bertoni 115'		 Report Nanninga 82'
Attendance: 71,483
Argentina
Netherlands
GK 5 Ubaldo Fillol
RB 15 Jorge Olguín
CB 7 Luis Galván
CB 19 Daniel Passarella (c)
LB 20 Alberto Tarantini
DM 6 Américo Gallego
CM 2 Osvaldo Ardiles  40'  66'
AM 10 Mario Kempes
RW 4 Daniel Bertoni
LW 16 Oscar Alberto Ortiz  75'
CF 14 Leopoldo Luque
Substitutes:
MF 1 Norberto Alonso
GK 3 Héctor Baley
MF 8 Rubén Galván
MF 9 René Houseman  75'
MF 12 Omar Larrosa  93'  66'
Manager:
César Luis Menotti
GK 8 Jan Jongbloed
SW 5 Ruud Krol (c)  15'
RB 6 Wim Jansen  73'
CB 22 Ernie Brandts
LB 2 Jan Poortvliet  96'
RM 13 Johan Neeskens
CM 9 Arie Haan
LM 11 Willy van de Kerkhof
RF 10 René van de Kerkhof
CF 16 Johnny Rep  58'
LF 12 Rob Rensenbrink
Substitutes:
DF 4 Adrie van Kraay
DF 17 Wim Rijsbergen
FW 18 Dick Nanninga  58'
GK 19 Pim Doesburg
DF 20 Wim Suurbier  94'  73'
Manager:
Ernst Happel

Assistant referees
Ramón Barreto (Uruguay)
Erich Linemayr (Austria)

References

  1. ^ "The story of the 1978 World Cup". BBC Sport. 18 May 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
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