The highlight of Uruguay 0 South Korea 0 was BBC co-commentator Danny Murphy having an existential crisis about why shots that hit the post aren’t counted as being on target for the pedantically technical reason of not being on target.
This was the fourth 0-0 draw in 14 games – there was one in the entire tournament four years ago – and it’s not particularly hard to fathom what might be causing the number of cagey stalemates in an unprecedented mid-season winter World Cup.
This was merely the high point of an eccentric co-commentary performance from Murphy, who spent much of the game expressing surprise that South Korea were organised and competent rather than rolling over to have their tummies tickled by the more fancied Uruguayans. It was a bravura old man yelling at clouds performance from the erstwhile Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder and one frankly we’re grateful for because the match was not the most entertaining or interesting of the opening week of this tournament and we’ve managed to eke out quite a few words on the co-commentator’s nonsense.
Uruguay looked more threatening when Suarez made way for Edinson Cavani but given the names on show it’s fair to say Murphy wouldn’t be the only one surprised at the relative ease with which South Korea eased through the game. His fellow Tottenham star Bentancur was arguably Uruguay’s best player and, as has been the case at Spurs recently, both he and his team looked far more threatening when he was released from the purely defensive midfield role he occupied for much of the first half.
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