With drama and penalties, Uruguay defeats Brazil and can face Colombia

Uruguay is a textbook of struggling. It is sufficient to overview its historical past within the World Cups to recollect the variety of years through which the Celeste lived with the noose round its neck. This Saturday, on the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, it resorted to that outdated mastery with which it faces troublesome eventualities and defeated Brazil 4-2 (0-0 within the 90 minutes) on penalties to advance to the semifinals of the Copa America, the place it is going to face Colombia.

Underneath the steering of Argentine coach Marcelo Bielsa, the Uruguayans discovered within the quarter-finals the best reward that soccer has to supply, which consists of struggling collectively, being a unit between the individuals and the crew, after which beating a rival of gigantic proportions in South America.

With depth and toughness, each groups engaged in tactical fight to the purpose of extra, attempting to chop off one another’s circuits, however providing extra put on and tear than aim alternatives in 90 minutes.

Brazil suffered within the brief sport. They confirmed that their attain relies upon solely on their stars, particularly the expertise of Vinícius Jr. Rodrygo’s talent brought on the expulsion of midfielder Nahitan Nández with 1 / 4 of an hour to go, after a tough sort out on his ankle. However neither that nor the damage of Uruguayan defender Ronald Araujo, who suffered from muscle ache, motivated the Canarinha to get out of their internet.

Within the penalty shoot-out, Bielsa’s expertise was evident on the bench. He selected his shooters one after the other from a pocket book and waited till the tip to declare victory. With Militao and Douglas Luiz lacking, Ugarte’s final shot ended the Celeste’s struggling in Las Vegas.