On July 14, Beijing time, the third place match of the Copa America was hot, just ended a focus matchup, the world ranked 14th Uruguay and the world ranked 48th Canada competed for the third place, as a result, the two teams played very fiercely into the penalty shootout, Uruguay withstood the pressure and defeated Canada 6-5, refused to be upset and won the third place, Uruguay was able to win this game, thanks to Suarez's equalizing goal!
Uruguay is ranked 14th in the world, won all three games in the group stage of this tournament to advance to the quarterfinals, eliminated Brazil in the 1/8 final penalty shootout to advance to the semifinals, but unfortunately the semi-finals were not enough, lost 0-1 to Colombia in the case of one more person and missed the final, while Canada is ranked 48th in the world, this tournament performed well, won the second group to advance to the quarterfinals, eliminated Venezuela in the 1/4 final penalty shootout to advance to the semifinals, and the semifinals were 0-2 by the favorite Argentina to complete the double kill, so that the two teams compete for the third place!
After the start of the game, in the 8th minute of the first half, Uruguay took a corner kick into the box, and after his teammates crossed, Bentancur grabbed the point and turned around to score directly. In the 20th minute, Canada quickly sent a corner into the box with the same colour, and after a team-mate crossed, Koné scored a brilliant barb to equalise. Uruguay scored again in the 24th minute when Pellistri scored but was blown off for offside. In the 43rd minute, Canada's attack resumed, Uruguay was in front of the goal, Osorio was saved by the goalkeeper, and then shot again with a header and was cleared by the goal line, and Canada 1-1 Uruguay at half-time. In the second half, Uruguay was replaced by Suarez, but Canada was stronger and once suppressed Uruguay, and in the 80th minute, Koné advanced with the ball and a long-range shot was saved by the goalkeeper, and then blocked Jonathan David to complete the supplementary shot to overtake the score. The backward Uruguay quickly fought back, Suarez was saved by a single knife, and in the 92nd minute of stoppage time, Suarez got another chance, received a cross from his teammates, grasped the direct one-knife goal, dragged into the penalty shootout, both teams hit in the first round of the penalty shootout, both teams hit in the second round, Canada was saved in the third penalty, Uruguay scored, both teams scored in the fourth penalty, Canada hit the crossbar in the fifth, and Uruguay won the game!
Judging from this game, the two teams played evenly and entered the penalty shootout, Canada's penalty quality was too poor, Uruguay played better, but Uruguay was able to win thanks to Suarez saving Uruguay, the knife is not old, the perfect ending!
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