England National Football Team Match No. 256

England 2 Chile 0 [1-0]

Sunday, 25 June 1950

Match Summary and Report

Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, Maracană, 25 June 1950 - The lineup that faced Chile.
Back row - Jack Aston, Wilf Mannion, Alf Ramsey, Lawrie Hughes, Billy Wright, Bert Williams;.
Front row - Jimmy Mullen, Roy Bentley, Jimmy Dickinson, Stan Mortensen, Tom Finney.
 

Match Summary

Not known.

England Team

No official ranking system established; x in Elo world ranking both before and after this match.
1st in the Group 2 table after this match.

England Lineup

3-4-3
[3-2-2-3]

Williams -
Ramsey, Hughes, Aston -
Wright, Dickinson -
Finney, Mannion, Bentley, Mortenson, Mullen.

Chile Team

No official ranking system established; x in Elo world ranking both before and after this match.
4th in the Group 2 table after this match.

Chile Lineup

3-4-3
[3-2-2-3]

Livingstone -
Roldán, Busquets, Alvarez -
Farias, Carvallo -
Cremaschi, Muńoz -
Mayanés, Robledo, Diaz Zambrano.

WM alignment with the centre halfback of the old 2-3-5 formation becoming a centre-back between the fullbacks and with the inside forwards withdrawn.

Match Report

Source Notes

Attendance:  Most sources, including the FIFA match report, list the attendance as around 30,000.  Many commentators believe it was quite a bit higher, with estimates ranging from 45,000 to 65,000 [Duarte].

Venue:  The match undoubtedly was played at Estádio Maracană in Rio de Janeiro, although two sources mistakenly have it in Porto Alegre [Cantor; World Cup 98 Online website].

Goal times:  The times given for the goals also vary widely, ranging from 27 to 39 minutes for Mortensen’s and 51 to 70 minutes for Mannion’s.  We have used the times from the FIFA match report, which are the same as or within a minute of the times given in the vast majority of the reports.  

England lineup:  Some sources, including the FIFA match report, have Mortensen playing inside right and Mannion inside left, including the FIFA match report.  Leatherdale’s authoritative work on England’s World Cup history notes that Mortensen switched to inside right from inside left only for England’s last World Cup 1950 match against Spain, when Mannion was left out and Eddie Baily brought in.  Both the latest Football Association yearbooks and Rothman's Book of Football Records also have Mannion at inside right and Mortensen at inside left.  We have followed them.

Chile lineup:  Many European sources, including the FIFA match report, have Arturo Farias as right back and Fernando Roldán as right half.  The exception is the lineup appearing in the World Cup history on La Gazzetta dello Sport website, which has Roldán as right back and Farias as right half.  This coincides with the positions attributed to Chile squad members by South American sources; Roldán was a fullback and Farias a halfback.  We have followed them, although the matter is not free of doubt.

Sources

Association of Football Statisticians [Jeff Hurley] , United Kingdom & Eire International Database 

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Edworthy, Niall, England: The Official F.A. History, p. 43 (Virgin Books, London, 1997)

enlacancha website [Luis Antonio Reyes]

FIFA website - 1950 World Cup

FIFA World Cup website [Jan Alsos reproducing information from Morrison, Ian, The World Cup - A Complete Record 1930-1990 (Breedon Books Sports, U.K., 1990)]; 

The Football Association, The Official FA and England Yearbook 1998-99, pp. 54-55 (Pan Books, Macmillan Publishers, London, 1997)

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