{"id":31471,"date":"2024-07-08T20:09:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=31471"},"modified":"2024-07-08T20:33:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:33:57","slug":"uruguay-beats-brazil-4-2-on-penalties-reach-copa-2024-semi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2024\/07\/08\/uruguay-beats-brazil-4-2-on-penalties-reach-copa-2024-semi\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay beats Brazil 4-2 on penalties, reach Copa 2024 semi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Desk report:<\/strong> Manuel Ugarte scored the winning goal in the fifth round of the shootout and Uruguay advanced to the Copa America semifinals with a 4-2 victory over Brazil on penalty kicks after the teams played to a scoreless draw Saturday night. The teams combined for a tournament-high 41 fouls and just four shots on goal during a bruising, choppy match with little of the impressive soccer for which both South American powerhouses are known. Uruguay\u2019s Nahitan N\u00e1ndez was sent off after a red card in the 74th minute for a dangerous tackle on Rodrygo, but Brazil couldn&#8217;t break through its 10-man opponent in the ensuing 21 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay led 3-1 after three rounds of the shootout when goalkeeper Sergio Rochet stopped \u00c9der Milit\u00e3o and Douglas Luiz hit the post. Alisson Becker saved Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Gim\u00e9nez&#8217;s shot in the fourth round to keep Brazil alive, but Ugarte banged home the clincher.<br \/>\nAfter the third penalty shootout in four Copa America quarterfinal matches, Uruguay advanced to face Colombia in the semifinals on Wednesday night in Charlotte. Colombia routed Panama 5-0 earlier Saturday, extending its unbeaten streak to 27 consecutive matches. Defending champion Argentina faces Canada in the other semifinal Tuesday in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The final is July 14 in Miami Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil played without Real Madrid star Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior, who watched from the stands under suspension after accumulating two yellow cards. The Sele\u00e7\u00e3o already are without Neymar, who hasn\u2019t played since tearing a knee ligament last fall during Brazil\u2019s loss to Uruguay in a World Cup qualifier.<br \/>\nThat victory was Uruguay&#8217;s first over Brazil in 13 meetings since 2001, but famed coach Marcelo Bielsa&#8217;s Uruguay has now beaten Brazil in back-to-back matches for the first time since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Source: GreenWatchBD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desk report: Manuel Ugarte scored the winning goal in the fifth round of the shootout and Uruguay advanced to the Copa America semifinals with a 4-2 victory over Brazil on penalty kicks after the teams played to a scoreless draw Saturday night. The teams combined for a tournament-high 41 fouls and just four shots on goal during a bruising, choppy match with little of the impressive soccer for which both South American powerhouses are known. Uruguay&rsquo;s Nahitan N&aacute;ndez was sent off after a red card in the 74th minute for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31491,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31471\/revisions\/31491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}