Match | Date | Venue / Stadium | Time | Attendance |
| 50 | 14 October 2008 | Brasilia / Gimnasio Nilson Nelson | 10:30 | 7881 |
Referee KIDSON Scott (AUS) | Assistant Referee 1 TOROK Karoly (HUN) |
Fourth Official KRNAC Jason (USA) | Assistant Referee 2 KALAM Badrul (MAS) |
| Match events | |||||||
| Chronologic order | Countdown order | ||||||
| Iran | Italy | ||||||
| First Half | |||||||
| 1'17" | 18'43" |  | [2] | GRANA | |||
| 8'06" | 11'54" | | [2] | GRANA | |||
| 9'59" | 10'01" |  | [8] | Saad ASSIS | |||
| Masoud DANESHVAR | [13] | | 10'38" | 9'22" | |||
| Ebrahim MASOUDI | [11] | | 12'23" | 7'37" | |||
| 13'57" | 6'03" | | [14] | Patrick NORA | |||
| Second Half | |||||||
| Mohammad HASHEMZADEH | [5] | | 26'30" | 13'30" | |||
| Ali HASSANZADEH | [7] | | 28'29" | 11'31" | |||
| 30'56" | 9'04" | | [9] | FABIANO | |||
| Masoud DANESHVAR | [13] | | 35'30" | 4'30" | |||
| 39'09" | 0'51" | | [6] | Edgar BERTONI | |||
| Iran (IRN) | Statistics | Italy (ITA) |
| 23 | Shots | 53 |
| 12 | Shots on goal | 32 |
| 4 | Accumulated Fouls 1st half | 2 |
| 2 | Accumulated Fouls 2nd half | 0 |
| 7 | Corner kicks | 19 |
| 0 | Free kicks Shots (scored) | 2 |
| 0 / 0 | Penalty Kicks (Goals/Shots) | 0 / 0 |
| 0 / 0 | 2nd Penalty goal / 2nd Penalty shot | 0 / 0 |
| 0 | Yellow cards | 1 |
| 0 | Second yellow card and red card | 0 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 62% | Possession (%) | 38% |
| 1 | Time out 1st half | 0 |
| 1 | Time out 2nd half | 0 |
| a.e.t.: | After extra time | PSO: | Penalty Shoot-out | (C): | Captain |
| GK: | Goalkeeper |  : | Red Cards | N: | Not eligible to play |
| I: | Injured | : | Yellow cards | Y: | Misses next match if booked |
 : | Second yellow card and red card | ||||
| A: | Absent |  : | Penalty goal |  : | Own goal |
 : | 2nd Penalty goal / 2nd Penalty shot | ||||
| *: | Starting Five | #: | Played | S: | Substitute |
Match Report