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Since their victory at the 2011 Copa America, Uruguay have been in something of a downward spiral, scraping into the World Cup with a play-off victory over lowly Jordan. They were never exactly a team best suited to breaking teams down either – primarily functional to give a strong base for a handful of great attackers rather than playing the free-flowing attacking football of some of the other South American teams. Still, a loss to Group D minnows wasn’t on the cards. Uruguay went out in a very rigid 4-4-2 with a battling midfield pair of Walter Gargano and Egidio Arevalo Rios and hard-working wingers in Christian Rodriguez and Christian Stuani, while Diego Forlan won back his place in the wake of Luis Suarez’s injury. Costa Rica set up in a defensive 5-4-1 formation, with Bryan Ruiz and Christian Bolanos supporting Arsenal’s Joel Campbell. There was very little to the game until Costa Rica equalised. Uruguay took the lead from a penalty earned via a set-piece – hardly indicative of any gameplan – and no longer needed to break Costa Rica down. All they had done previously was get their wingers forward and look to play balls for Edinson Cavani […]
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