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Uruguay v Cape Verde: World Cup 2026 – live

Uruguay v Cape Verde: World Cup 2026 – live
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90 min +4 THAT shot was worth taking. A quick turn in the box, and Muslera is forced to save.

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90 min +3 Cape Verde get possession and try a couple of long-range shots, and they fail to have enough people back to prevent Cano from going to the races. Lopes just barely gets back to distract him, and the shot goes wide.

Borges into the book for reasons unknown. Dissent, probably.

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90 min +2 De La Cruz plays long for Nuñez. He darts past a defender and puts a worm-burning cross through the six-yard box. Valverde was so close to getting a foot to it.

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90 min +1 Semedo was the one who picked up the yellow card.

Eight minutes of stoppage time.

Cape Verde have a throw-in – for once, on the other side of midfield.

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89 min Free kick just outside the box, and a card, as De La Cruz is tripped up. Uruguay free kick from 20. A Cape Verde player lies behind the wall to prevent the shot being placed under the wall. Valverde hits it over the bar.

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89 min Cape Verde may regret using up their subs. At least one player is hobbling, possibly cramped./

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88 min That’s better from Vozinha, clearing emphatically as danger arises near his feet.

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87 min Uruguay’s efforts at corner kicks aren’t bad, but Cape Verde are just managing to deal with them. This is very much like the Spain game, though – Cape Verde hanging on while a global audience holds its breath.

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86 min Vozinha again spills the ball, and Cape Verde are lucky it’s not turned into the net. As brilliant as Cape Verde’s keeper was in their first game against Spain, he’s struggling today.

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85 min Uruguay earn a corner. Multiple soccer balls are in the corner. Kick the one in the middle.

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84 min Uruguay maybe seizing control again here. Cape Verde pressing and intercepting but unable to gain possession.

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81 min AraĂșjo does well to put in a cross, headed away for a corner, and that’ll be his last kick of the game. Rodriguez is in.

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80 min Monteiro heads out. Semedo is in, and that’s all the subs Cape Verde may use.

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79 min Oh my. Varela with a crunching tackle at midfield to interrupt a counterattack. No foul called, but both players are down.

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Updated at 01.58 CEST

79 min Lopes down for Cape Verde in his own box, but Uruguay play on, as is their right.

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78 min This game has opened up. Maybe the ref knew what he was doing in holding off on the hydration break – now we’re set for a sprint finish.

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Updated at 01.55 CEST

77 min Truth be told, neither quadragenarian goalkeeper has fared well in this game.

Vozinha gives people heart palpitations by waiting until the last second to collect a ball.

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Kári Tulinius writes: “Marcelo Bielsa likes his keepers to act as sweepers. At 40, Muslera isn’t naturally suited to that role, and so a defensive calamity results.”

Isn’t Neuer also in this tournament at an advanced age?

I was told to quit coming off my line when I was 45.

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75 min Another Cape Verde attack! Pass deflected for a corner.

Uruguay had this game under complete control. One bad pass, one meandering goalkeeper, and everything changed.

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If you want another complication – there are some blotches on the radar in the Miami area, but I can’t tell if they’re near the stadium.

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VAR upholds no goal. We get the subs 
 still no hydration? Hello? It’s a sauna in Miami.

For Cape Verde, Laros Duarte replaces the first goal-scorer, Kevin Pina.

For Uruguay, Nuñez and De La Cruz replace Viñas and Ugarte.

NOW we get the break.

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We’re getting a VAR review that we can’t see.

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No goal!

Vozinha would’ve hated that. Deflected ball, rolls and bounces off his post, and he somehow doesn’t field it cleanly, and it’s bundled in. But the first pass in that sequence appeared to be to someone in an offside position – the player who took the corner, in fact.

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Updated at 01.44 CEST

68 min Corner kick to Uruguay, but will the subs come on first? It’s Nuñez and De La Cruz for Uruguay. Kick is taken 


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67 min Brave block by Lopes as Valverde nearly created a good shooting opportunity from the top of area.

We’re about to see Darwin Nuñez.

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65 min Long ball to AraĂșjo but superbly defended.

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65 min Player down for Cape Verde, and I sense that Uruguay isn’t happy about that.

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64 min Chance to Cape Verde! Monteiro fires just over the bar from 22 yards out. Muslera barely waved at it.

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Credit to Varela – his two touches were immaculate – but what on earth was Muslera doing?

Also a horrible pass from Olivera.

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Updated at 01.30 CEST

Goal! Uruguay 2-2 Cape Verde (Varela 61)

This is the craziest World Cup ever!

A simple missed pass in Uruguay’s half, and for reasons known only to him, Muslera is far off his line. Varela easily taps the ball around him and wastes no time slotting the ball into the empty net.

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Updated at 01.39 CEST

59 min No repeat of the Cape Verde free kick this time, as Uruguay double the size of the wall from two to four, and the players hold their ground. Painfully so.

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