World Cup Daily: South Korea’s dramatic win leaves Uruguay heartbroken
After every matchday of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Sportsnet.ca’s World Cup Daily weblog will recap the day’s occasions and look forward to the subsequent day’s slate of video games.
Here’s what occurred on Friday in Qatar, in case you missed it…
THE RESULTS
South Korea 2, Portugal 1 in Al Rayyan: Match report || Match stats
Ghana 0, Uruguay 2 in Al Wakrah: Match report || Match stats
Cameroon 0, Brazil 1 in Lusail: Match report || Match stats
Serbia 2, Switzerland 3 in Doha: Match report || Match stats
Teams shifting on: Brazil and Switzerland (Group G), Portugal and South Korea (Group H)
Eliminated groups: Cameroon and Serbia (Group G), Uruguay and Ghana (Group H)
Round of 16 matches: Brazil vs. South Korea and Portugal vs. Switzerland
MAIN TALKING POINT
A memorable 9 minutes and 38 seconds
This World Cup has already produced so many extremely dramatic moments in the course of the closing spherical video games within the group stage. We can now add one other chapter following a incredible closing day of motion in Group H, with South Korea advancing to the spherical of 16 on the expense of Uruguay.
Uruguay jumped out to a 2-0 lead over Ghana to seize a brief maintain of second place behind Portugal who had already booked its ticket for the subsequent spherical. At the identical time, South Korea was tied 1-1 with Portugal, a outcome that if it stood would have seen Uruguay advance. But Hwang Hee-chan scored within the 92nd minute to present South Korea a 2-1 lead, shifting his crew into second place.
The Asians and South Americans have been tied on 4 factors, they usually each had the identical purpose distinction (the primary tiebreaker). But South Korea had scored two extra objectives than Uruguay (the second tiebreaker) and was in pole place to take second place.
Word filtered of South Korea’s late purpose within the Uruguayan bench, and what ensued was 9 minutes and 38 seconds of additional time that was pure insanity – and perhaps essentially the most entertaining and thrilling 9 minutes and 38 seconds of this World Cup. Needing to attain yet another time so as to advance forward of South Korea on purpose distinction, Uruguay poured ahead searching for a purpose.
With veteran striker Luis Suárez on the bench after being subbed out, Maximiliano Gomez and Sebastian Coates each missed late scoring possibilities, whereas Edinson Cavani was denied a penalty declare. Goalkeeper Sergio Rochet was additionally known as upon to make a variety of huge saves, as Ghana pressed for a purpose after Uruguay left itself open to counter-attacks.
The South Korea-Portugal sport ended first, and captain Son Heung-min gathered his teammates in a huddle on the sector and watched protection of the top of the opposite Group H on somebody’s cellular phone. When the ultimate whistle blew, Suárez might be seen on the sidelines crying whereas the South Koreans celebrated.
GOAL OF THE DAY
With the sport in stoppage time and South Korea on the point of elimination, Son Heung-min rapidly broke ahead up the sector after a Portugal nook kick earlier than feeding a move contained in the penalty space to Hwang Hee-chan who beat goalkeeper Diogo Costa with a low shot.
MOMENT OF THE DAY
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“It is unhappiness and disappointment that we feeI. I used to be fortunate sufficient to play my fourth World Cup, and I used to be excited about my four-year-old son, who’s leaving with the picture of unhappiness. It’s troublesome, but it surely’s as much as me to face the state of affairs.” – Uruguay’s Luis Suárez
SIX PACK OF STATS
• Four of South Korea’s final seven objectives on the males’s World Cup have been scored within the ninetieth minute or later of the second half.
• Giorgian de Arrascaeta is the third Uruguayan to attain two objectives within the first-half of a World Cup match, after Juan Peregrino Anselmo vs. Yugoslavia in 1930 and Oscar Miguez vs. Bolivia in 1950.
• Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri is one in all three gamers to attain at every of the final three males’s World Cup tournaments. The others are Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
• Serbia and Switzerland have been tied 2-2 after 45 minutes on Friday. This marked the primary time since England vs. Argentina in 1998 that each groups in a males’s match scored no less than two objectives earlier than half time.
• At 39 years and 210 days, Daniel Alves is the oldest participant to ever seem in a World Cup sport for the Brazilian males’s crew.
• This is the primary time on the males’s World Cup since 2002 that solely two South American nations certified for the spherical of 16.
Stats courtesy of Opta
THREE STARS OF THE DAY
1) Giorgian de Arrascaeta (Uruguay): Bagged a primary half brace in Uruguay’s first win in Qatar, but it surely wasn’t sufficient to ship his nation by way of to the knockout spherical.
2) Son Heung-min (South Korea): Capped off a workman-like efficiency with that incredible solo run to arrange Hwang Hee-chan’s successful purpose in damage time.
3) Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland): He scored his fifth profession World Cup purpose and assist arrange one other purpose because the Swiss superior to the spherical of 16.
LOOKING AHEAD TO SATURDAY
The knockout stage kicks off on Saturday with a pair of video games within the spherical of 16. The Netherlands vs. the United States (10:00 a.m. ET) is a battle of two unbeaten groups. Christian Pulisic scored the winner in opposition to Iran to assist the Americans advance out of the group stage. He is on monitor to pay in opposition to the Dutch after struggling a pelvic damage in opposition to Iran. The different sport sees Argentina tackle Australia (2:00 p.m. ET) as Lionel Messi continues his quest for his first World Cup title in his closing match look.
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John Molinaro is likely one of the main soccer journalists in Canada, having lined the sport for over 20 years for a number of media shops, together with Sportsnet, CBC Sports and Sun Media. He is presently the editor-in-chief of TFC Republic, an internet site devoted to in-depth protection of Toronto FC and Canadian soccer. TFC Republic might be discovered right here.
