BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Uruguay and South Korea complicated to the semifinals of the Beneath-20 Global Cup on Sunday.
The South American citizens beat america 2-0 in Santiago del Estero, dominating the fit from begin to end. The Asian crew, runner-up within the ultimate U-20 Global Cup in 2019 to Ukraine, secured its spot with a 1-0 victory towards Nigeria because of a objective in extra-time.
Uruguay will tackle Israel on Thursday, the similar day South Korea will face Italy for a spot within the ultimate.
South Korea scored the one objective in their fit within the 5th minute of extra-time. The header via Seok-Hyun Choi was once one of the crucial few probabilities both crew had all over the stumble upon.
Uruguay opened the scoring within the twenty first minute after a counter-attack put Anderson Duarte in entrance of an empty objective. The Uruguayans doubled their lead within the 56th minute thru an personal objective via Joshua Wynder.
The US didn’t concede any objectives of their first 4 fits within the event.
“That’s existence. When you don’t have sufficient, you don’t win,” U.S. trainer Mikey Varas informed the professional broadcaster after the fit. “They fought, they’ve what that they had they usually had an excellent event right here.”
Uruguay trainer Marcelo Brioli agreed that the primary objective of the fit got here when the U.S. crew was once dominating.
“The primary mins of the fit had been laborious, however our crew’s adulthood made the variation,” Brioli stated.
Not one of the 4 groups left within the event has ever received it. Uruguay was once runner up in 1997 and 2013. Israel is enjoying within the U-20 Global Cup for the primary time.
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