On its goals in the 26th minute and the 32nd, Giorgian de Arrascaeta scored and exulted in his frosted white hair. Even in the breathless stoppage time, the Black Stars went at the Uruguay goal and forced Rochet into some magnificence he’d prefer not exhibit, including one diving save of a shot from Kamaldeen Sulemana. Surely the Uruguayans could count all along upon Portugal, the European stalwart who led South Korea 1-0 after the fifth minute until it became 1-1 after the 27th. They began to stew and then suffer, some crying, some remaining in seats with glum faces long after the closing whistle. They thundered and even laughed often as if in some nightclub parsing the inexplicable night, except that around here there’s no beer.
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