November 23, 2022, 8:49 AM
November 23, 2022, 8:49 AM
With lead feet, warned by the historical tumble suffered by the favorite Argentina, and pending if he finally runs into Son Heung-min, Uruguay debuts on Thursday against the uncomfortable South Korea in the World Cup in Qatar-2022.
South Korea “is not only Son”It is a great team, with a very marked style of play and with a great coach, Uruguay coach Diego Alonso warned this Wednesday.
“We respect him a lot, he is a great player, we are clear about it,” added the ‘Tornado’, for whom the Korean team “has other playersIt’s a great team and it has a very good coach (the Portuguese Paulo Bento)”.
Captain Diego Godin For his part, he said that Uruguay should exercise extreme precautions and not be overconfident.
“We have to go with lead feet”, because “without a doubt nwe face a very good selectionwith unbalanced players”.
La Celeste and South Korea will meet at the Education City stadium from 9:00 a.m. (Bolivian time) in the opening of Group H, one of the most even in the tournament and which completes the Portugal of Cristiano Ronaldo and Ghana.
And this first duel could indicate the future path of La Celeste in the World Cup, according to the midfielder Lucas Torreira: “It is key to see if we are going to have a great World Cup or a bad World Cup”.
For Torreira, Uruguay had a “complicated debut, against a very aggressive rival” who should in no way be underestimated because “all the teams that are here are competitive”.
Everyone comes here to win, Torreira continued.and there “we see the case of Saudi Arabia, which played a great game and beat one of the favourites, Argentina”, this Tuesday 2-1 in the first big blow of Qatar-2022.
Defender Sebastian Coates He warned that the premiere “is always the most difficult game, the one that costs the most.”
For La Celeste it has never been easy to debut in a World Cup and in fact in Russia-2018, when they beat Egypt 1-0 with a goal on the hour by Josema Giménez, they ended a 48-year streak without victories in their debut, since the previous one had been in Mexico-1970 against Israel for 2-0.
“The first match is the first goal” and South Korea “is a very strong team, it’s in the World Cup for a reason,” said Darwin Núñez, who together with Pistolero Luis Suárez would form the attacking duo.
Alonso, however, declined on Wednesday to announce the eleven that will jump onto the Education City field. “We have a scheme, but we will just decide who will play after training” that Uruguay held on Wednesday afternoon, said the DT.
“We want to go far, our goal is to win the World Cupbut, as I said, we started with the first match against Korea and we have to think about that,” added Darwin.
The 23-year-old Reds forwardis on his way to becoming the successor to the historic Suárez and Edinson Cavani, who at 35 each face their fourth and last World Cup.
Son (with mask) underwent surgery before the World Cup
– The enigma Son –
In South Korea, everything happens through the presence of its great star, the electrifying Son, who “can play and he will be able to play,” his coach, Paulo Bento, announced at a press conference on Wednesday.
But the Portuguese technical director warned that the Tottenham striker, the great soccer star of asia“he knows, and we also know, that after this injury we cannot take any risk.”
The Tottenham star, top scorer in the last Premier League, He had surgery two weeks ago after suffering a fractured left eye socket in a Champions League game in early November.
But although they areHe has shown worldwide that he is a great playerone is prepared to face everyone and not only Son”, warned the Celeste goalkeeper, Sergio Rochet, who will make his World Cup debut by relegating the historic Fernando Muslera, starter in South Africa-2010, Brazil-2014 and Russia- to the bench. 2018.
