Key occasions
Which signifies that, I’m afraid is the tip of this weblog. Thanks all on your firm and feedback – sorry I couldn’t use all of them – and benefit from the subsequent two video games. Two video games! Peace out.
And with that, Jonathan Wilson’s report has arrived, so right here it is:
“Are you seriously suggesting peak-Cavani ‘wasn’t half the player’ peak-Suarez was?” wonders Mark Dunlop. “To quote Danny from Withnail & I – ‘very, very foolish words, man’.”
Listen, my hairs are my aerials. They decide up alerts from the cosmos. And they inform me that peak Cavani was an excellent participant, however peak Suarez was one of the crucial devastating gamers I’ve ever seen.
A thought for you: would possibly it be that we’re seeing goalless attracts as a result of groups are match sufficient – bodily and mentally – to defend properly for 90 minutes?
“I think Cavani has presented more of a threat than Suarez in the few minutes he’s been on,” says Colum Fordham, “writing from Naples where Edinson Cavani was revered as a hero. On the flag front, some of the monarchist revivalist Napoli fan groups have added the rather garish Bourbon flag dripping with gold tassles to the simple light blue of the team’s colours and the donkey mascot with rather alarming results.”
I agree on Cavani. He wasn’t half the participant Suarez was at his peak, however he’s aged quite a bit higher.
Please Sir, I would like some extra.
In the final world Cup, we had one goalless attract 63 video games; up to now right here, we’ve had 4. I don’t suppose any of them have been stinkers, however there’s been too little attacking zest and fundamental competence.
FULL-TIME: Uruguay 0-0 South Korea
Uruguay got here nearer to scoring, hitting the woodwork twice, however Uijo must also have scored for Korea; the reality is neither facet confirmed sufficient high quality to attain, and Group H appears to be like like being a tighty.
90+7 min Varela will get a run on Jinsu, who dives in entrance of him; he’s away! But no, Jinsu’s purchased the free-kick – that’s very good defending.
90+6 min Uruguay win a nook down the left … which De La Cruz pumps into Seunggyu’s arms.
90+5 min Uruguay have put themselves beneath strain with this efficiency – they’ve not been optimistic sufficient, I don’t suppose – and if there’s a optimistic consequence when Korea play Ghana, they could want one thing from the Portugal sport.
90+4 min Valverde’s performed properly tonight, however the way in which his crew have arrange hasn’t allowed him sufficient scope to make sufficient occur.
90+2 min Cho will get clear down the left … thinks he’s obtained clear down the left, however right here comes Valverde, tanking in pursuit earlier than sliding in and celebrating like he’s scored.
90+1 min A horrible clearance from Rochet is picked up by Cho, who finds Son, and from the sting of the field he drives simply broad; that was a tough probability, however we’ve seen him take more durable ones. We’ll have seven added minutes which Danny Murphy thinks it’s arduous to understand, however the reality is we should always have related each time.
90 min Valverde, who’s appeared likelyish when on the ball, takes it 30 yards out, has a glance, then completely explodes right into a screeching drive that clatters the close to submit – although I believe Seunggyu had it coated.
89 min Cho blatantly glances at Big Jose Gimenez, who collapses; Cho is mystifyingly booked.
88 min A participant who by no means performs for Man United is changed by a participant who nearly by no means performed for Man United, Varela on for Pellistri.
88 min Bentancur tosses a ball into the field from the precise touchline and Cavani extends each fibre of neck and cranium to get a contact, however the ball drops past the far submit regardless of Vina’s finest efforts to meet up with it.
86 min It’s Uruguay pushing the tempo now, however they’ve lacked midfield guile and broad thrust.
84 min “Greeting from the cold north,” says Anders Naess. “Off topic, but for walrus-based heraldry it’s hard to beat the shield of arms of Svalbard.”
Heraldry all the time makes me consider 15-1. One of my mates was on it and possesses an absurd common data, however obtained two questions which William G prefaced with that very phrase.
83 min Pien Meulensteen – who’s accomplished a extremely good job, I believe – refers to Group Haitch, which makes me suppose I’ve solved an issue throughout the England squad. Harry Maguire may be Aitch, and Harry Kane may be Haitch. You’re welcom,e lads.
81 min Cavani comes off the entrance and holds up properly – that capability makes him a greater possibility than Suarez, I believe – and finds Nunez, to his left, who nips again inside and curls searching for the far submit, whereas Cavani flings hair searching for to impart slightly deflection. Both fail.
80 min Danny Murphy is disillusioned in Uruguay and so am I. There’s been a scarcity of zip and danger of their play and I additionally marvel in the event that they endure, as Portugal did within the Euros, from the supervisor choosing an ageing genius to the detriment of the crew.
79 min Double change for Uruguay, De La Cruz and Vina on for Vecino and Olivera.
77 mim I stated I used to be positive we’d get a purpose, however excuse me entire I interrupt myself, a flip across the nook from Inbeom and Cho, pulling off the entrance, has house! He appears to be like, then tries a low shot from 20 yards that he drags a contact, so it scuttles a yard or two broad of the close to submit.
75 min Son isolates Caceres and reveals Pellistri how it’s accomplished, a skip inside inciting the shift of weight that permits him to dip outdoors, Bentancur compelled to hump clear his low cross.
75 min Triple change for Korea, Lee, cho and Son on, Uijo, Sangho and Jaesung off.
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