Luis Suarez fails to make his mark as South Korea maintain Uruguay to goalless draw

Good afternoon, and welcome to the Schooling Metropolis Stadium the place two-time champions Uruguay put together for his or her World Cup marketing campaign towards South Korea.

After a dismal run of outcomes noticed the tip of Oscar Tabarez’s 15-year managerial reign 12 months in the past, new coach Diego Alonso has turned issues round at Uruguay. Since January, Alonso’s facet have gained eight of their 9 matches, together with key away qualifier victories over Chile and Paraguay that took them to Qatar.

The likes of Fede Valverde, Luis Suarez, Darwin Nunez and Rodrigo Bentancur head a squad stuffed with world-class expertise and plenty of anticipate them to punch above their weight over the approaching weeks.

When it comes to this afternoon, Alonso will possible be with out key defensive participant Ronald Araujo and can possible want to show to veteran Diego Godin alongside Jose Maria Jimenez.

That journey begins now towards a workforce from South Korea, who acquired the absolute best information within the build-up to the journey when Son Heung-min declared himself match to start out.

The Tottenham man suffered an eye fixed damage final month however was publicly declared match to play regardless of preparations for the event being severely disrupted.

Whereas Son provides South Korea a innovative, a lot of their qualifying success has been constructed on a poor defensive file conceding simply three objectives of their ten qualifying matches. They’ve induced main upsets at World Cups earlier than, most notably in 2018 the place they upset Germany within the group levels.

Nevertheless, ever since their heroic run to the event semi-finals on dwelling soil in 2002, South Korea have been considerably flattered to cheat on the World Cup. Nevertheless, with Son and Napoli defender Kim Min-jae referred to as up, this seems to be like a workforce able to hit the bottom working in Qatar.