The Uruguayan football beat Ireland in Dublin today (2-3) in a friendly that served the last World Cup semifinalists to wash an image tarnished by the defeat to Estonia in their opening game of this mini European tour. The South Americans completely overflowed in the first half to an Ireland in which their coach, the Italian Giovanni Trapattoni, rested up to five of the owners who defeated Macedonia last Saturday in Dublin, in a qualifying match for Euro 2012. Uruguay took the lead on the scoreboard after a free kick taken by Diego Forlan in the area of three quarters. His harmless cross bounced off two players before being killed in front of a liability Keiran Westwood, who fought with Diego Lugano dry shot after running the ball at his feet. The local response was barely two minutes later, revealing the dangers of ultraofensivo approach as proposed by Oscar Washington Tabarez. Irish striker Shane Long flew under the radar of Martín Cáceres and Maximiliano Pereira came late to help. Between them raised the hammer to beat the Uruguayan goal with a header flawless dive. Pereira redeemed himself shortly after shooting a diagonal from the right wing and dodging opponents to reach the same balcony area, where inexplicably linked with Edison Cavani unmarked. Napoli striker, "capocannonieri" Italian League, had plenty of time to look at Westwood, arm leg and shoot the target with a cross shot. Ireland did not surrender and continued to search with more faith than moving towards precisely offensive. A steal in the midfield, where he went down to help the forwards, especially Forlan, Uruguay's third goal came, the work of Abel Hernandez at the break. Nothing but resumed the second act, Long took advantage of an inmate by the right wing to beat his defender, tracing the center line and the penalty spot. Andy Keogh came to the auction and James McCarthy, on the one hand, and Caceres, on the other. None of them touched the ball, but Sevilla's Uruguayan defender managed to knock both of them. The French school, Said Ennjimi said the maximum penalty and converted the penalty Keith Fahy adjusting his shot to right post from Fernando Muslera, who guessed the direction but failed by inches. With the Irish goal and the beginning of the carousel changes, out gaining the locals, who began to find cracks in the visitors' defense and collaboration of Muslera sometimes very insecure overnight 2 - Irlanda: Keiren Westwood; Kevin Foley, Stephen Kelly (capitán), Darren O'Dea, Ciaran Clark (Damien Delaney, m.75); Paul Green, Liam Lawrence (Aidan McGeady, m.78), Keith Fahey (Darron Gibson, m.65), Andy Keogh (Anthony Stokes, m.85); James McCarthy (Keith Treacy, m.65) y Shane Long. 3 - Uruguay: Fernando Muslera; Maximiliano Pereira, Diego Lugano (capitán), Diego Godín, Martín Cáceres; Diego Pérez (Andrés Scotti, m.90), Egido Arévalo Ríos (Walter Gargano, m.63), Álvaro Pereira, Abel Fernández (Sebastián Eguren, m.83); Edinson Cavani y Diego Forlán. Goles: 0-1, m.12: Diego Lugano; 1-1, m.14: Shane Long; 1-2, m.22: Edinson Cavani; 1-3, m.39: Abel Hernández; 2-3, m.47: Keith Fahy (p)
Árbitro: Said Ennjimi (Francia). Amonestó a Darren O'Dea, Edinson Cavani
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario