Uruguay have an abundance of chaos merchants but were painfully passive in a defeat to Portugal that leaves them bottom of the pile...
Dark horses Uruguay pull up lame as Bruno Fernandes powers Portugal into last 16Uruguay have an abundance of chaos merchants but were painfully passive in a defeat to Portugal that leaves them bottom of the pile…For a long time, though, the eighth day of wall-to-wall World Cup looked to be drifting towards a dour conclusion, with Portugal and Uruguay apparently in little need of victory and neither team looking likely to chase it.
Alonso switched to a back three with an average age of 32 so it was inevitable that Uruguay would sit deep and look to break on the counter-attack. And once Portugal’s initial huff had been puffed, it looked like things were going swimmingly for the South Americans.
The first giveaway that Ronaldo hadn’t touched Fernandes’ cross was in the free-agent’s celebration. It was brash, obviously, but for Ronaldo, not brash enough. Then we saw the replays and the daylight between Ronaldo’s bonce and the ball.
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