Twelve years ago, Luis Suarez's handball vs. Ghana spawned drama between the nations. Friday, Suarez and Uruguay are eliminated despite a 2-0 win over Ghana.
. He had handled a goalbound shot and, while he had held the slightest hope of getting away with it, he had been punished with a red card, a penalty for the opposition and, as it transpired after Uruguay prevailed on penalties, a suspension for the semi-final.
Sebastian Abreu played 70 matches for Uruguay and came off the bench against Ghana, scoring the decisive penalty in the shootout. He doesn’t see too much to connect the 2010 fixture and the 2022 rematch. “I know that sounds appealing, but the two games will have been played under different contexts,” he says.Diego Forlan, who scored Uruguay’s equaliser that night before converting a penalty in the shootout, is also unsurprisingly keen to play down the historic element..
“And there’s something else,” Abreu said. “If Ghana converts the penalty, wouldn’t be the villain. They didn’t convert. Had Ghana converted that penalty, this wouldn’t be a story. Then we went to a shootout and they missed two penalties. We missed one. There were three additional factors at play. It’s unfair for all of this to have been lumped on Luis.”Back in Uruguay, Suarez was lionised.
It came down to just one thing. “I had one-thousandth of a second to react and I was exhausted from 120 minutes of football,” he said.Ibrahim Ayew says nobody in the Ghana dressing room spoke for a long time afterwards. “We were so sorry, especially for Asamoah Gyan,” says the midfielder, who now plays for Bruno’s Magpies in the Gibraltar National League. “He felt he had disappointed the whole of Africa. He was so disappointed in himself.
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