Bad news beforehand that Mo Salah wasn’t quite fit enough to start, bad for Egypt and bad for us neutrals watching. Plenty shots of him on the bench right enough, and plenty of empty spaces in the stadium which makes you wonder why they bothered erecting extra tiers at either end.
Martin Keown in action early to inform us that being able to pass the ball is important in football today. Meanwhile Jonathan Pearce managed to mention three different English teams in the first four minutes then constantly withered on about the Premiership. You’re at the World Cup mate, concentrate on what’s in front of you. Maybe then you would notice that Suarez missed a chance rather than it being disallowed. The ball finishing beside the net was a bit of a clue.
You may surmise that there wasn’t much happening on the pitch if I’m ranting about the commentators, and you’d be right.
Today’s VAR controversy - a blatant dive by El-Said received only a warning from the ref. Will he get a retrospective ban?
The match was drifting away to a goalless draw until the last few minutes when Uruguay first hit the post from a Cavani free-kick then scored a dramatic winner with a great Gimenez header.
Very disappointing performance from them though, while Egypt will hold out hope when Salah returns.
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