Football World Cup 2018 / Uruguay

Football World Cup 2018 : Uruguay
Trainer	Óscar Tabarez
captain	Diego Godin
Qualified as	Second in the South America qualification
World rankings before the tournament	14th
Tournament result	Quarter finals
Games won	4th
Games tie	0
Games lost	1
Gates	7: 3

This article covers the Uruguayan national soccer team at the 2018 World Cup . Uruguay qualified as the second best team in the South American qualification on the last day of the match, and for the first time since 1990 without the detour of the intercontinental playoffs. The team took part for the 13th time and since 2010 without interruption.

qualification

The team qualified through the qualification of the South American football association CONMEBOL .

Games

Edinson Cavani , South American qualifying top scorer

Uruguay relied on national coach Óscar Tabárez , who has coached the team since 2006, in qualifying . Since moving to the Copa America in 2015 was banned for three competitive matches, but lost in the first three games Assistant coach Celso Otero take the place on the bench. Of these three games, the first two were won, the third was lost in Ecuador. Then Tabárez was allowed to sit down on the bench again and his team defeated South American champions Chile 3-0. Of the next seven games, Uruguay then only lost the game in Argentina. Then came the second leg defeat in Chile at the end of 2016. Nevertheless, the team maintained second place in the table. In the first three games of 2017, however, only one point was achieved in the goalless draw against Argentina, so that the team fell back to third place and were only three points ahead of the sixth place before the last three games. A win in Paraguay brought back second place, but a goalless draw in bottom of the table Venezuela missed early qualification in the penultimate game, as the gap to sixth in the table was still three points. In the last game against Bolivia, which already had no chance of reaching the World Cup finals, the Uruguayans secured their ticket to the World Cup with a 4-2 win. Uruguayan players had scored all six goals, because Gastón Silva had put the Bolivians in the lead with an own goal and then captain Diego Godín ensured the final score with another own goal. Uruguay - which would have finished fourth even if it had been defeated - qualified for the first time since 1990 for the World Cup. In 2002, 2010 and 2014 Uruguay could only qualify in the intercontinental playoffs, in 1994 and 1998 the team failed in the South American qualification and in 2006 in the intercontinental playoffs.

A total of 32 players were used in the 18 games, four of them only once. No player was used in all 18 games. Goalkeeper Fernando Muslera made 17 appearances after he was forced to take a break after receiving the second yellow card. 16 missions had captain Diego Godín , who could also not be used once. Edinson Cavani , the top scorer in the South American qualification with ten goals, and Carlos Sánchez made 15 appearances, whereby Cavani could not be used once. Record goalscorer Luis Suárez was the Uruguayans' second top scorer in qualifying with five goals, which he scored in 13 games. A total of 12 players scored for Uruguay and they also benefited from an own goal by a Paraguayan. With 32 goals they were the most accurate team in South America after Brazil.

Cristian Rodríguez made his 100th international match in a goalless draw against Venezuela on October 5, 2017.

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Uruguayan goal scorers
08/10/2015	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Uruguay	0: 2 (0: 1)	Martin Cáceres (10th), Diego Godín (70th)
13/10/2015	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Colombia	3: 0 (1: 0)	Diego Godín (34th), Diego Rolán (50th), Abel Hernández (87th)
11/12/2015	Quito	Ecuador	-	Uruguay	2: 1 (1: 0)	Edinson Cavani (49th)
11/17/2015	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Chile	3: 0 (1: 0)	Diego Godín (22nd), Álvaro Pereira (61st), Martin Cáceres (64th)
03/25/2016	Recife	Brazil	-	Uruguay	2: 2 (2: 1)	Edinson Cavani (31st), Luis Suárez (48th)
03/29/2016	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Peru	1: 0 (0: 0)	Edinson Cavani (52nd)
09/01/2016	Mendoza	Argentina	-	Uruguay	1: 0 (1: 0)
09/06/2016	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Paraguay	4: 0 (3: 0)	Edinson Cavani (17th, 53rd), Cristian Rodríguez (41th), Luis Suárez (45th / penalty)
10/06/2016	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Venezuela	3: 0 (1: 0)	Nicolás Lodeiro (29th), Edinson Cavani (46th, 78th)
10/11/2016	Barranquilla	Colombia	-	Uruguay	2: 2 (1: 1)	Cristian Rodríguez (27.), Luis Suárez (73.)
11/10/2016	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Ecuador	2: 1 (2: 1)	Sebastián Coates (12th), Diego Rolán (46th)
11/15/2016	Santiago de Chile	Chile	-	Uruguay	3: 1 (1: 1)	Edinson Cavani (16.)
03/23/2017	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Brazil	1: 4 (1: 1)	Edinson Cavani (9th / penalty)
03/28/2017	Lima	Peru	-	Uruguay	2: 1 (1: 1)	Carlos Sánchez (30.)
08/31/2017	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Argentina	0-0
05.09.2017	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Uruguay	1: 2 (0: 0)	Federico Valverde (75th), Paraguay own goal (79th)
05.10.2017	San Cristobal	Venezuela	-	Uruguay	0-0
10/10/2017	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Bolivia	4: 2 (2: 1)	Martin Cáceres (39.), Edinson Cavani (41.), Luis Suárez (60. 75.)

Closing table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Brazil	18th	12	5	1	041:110	+30	41
2.	Uruguay	18th	9	4th	5	032:200	+12	31
3.	Argentina	18th	7th	7th	4th	019:160	+3	28
4th	Colombia	18th	7th	6th	5	021:190	+2	27
5.	Peru	18th	7th	5	6th	027:260	+1	26th
6th	Chile	18th	8th	2	8th	026:270	−1	26th
7th	Paraguay	18th	7th	3	8th	019:250	−6	24
8th.	Ecuador	18th	6th	2	10	026:290	−3	20th
9.	Bolivia	18th	4th	2	12	016:380	−22	14th
10.	Venezuela	18th	2	6th	10	019:350	−16	12

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Uruguayan goal scorers
November 10, 2017	0-0	Poland	Warsaw
November 14, 2017	1: 2	Austria	Vienna	Edinson Cavani (10th)
23 March 2018	2-0	Czech Republic	Nanning ( CHN )	Luis Suárez (10th / penalty), Edinson Cavani (37th)
March 26, 2018	1-0	Wales	Nanning ( CHN )	Edinson Cavani (49th)
7th June 2018	3-0	Uzbekistan	Montevideo	Giorgian De Arrascaeta (32.), Luis Suárez (54./Penalty), José María Giménez (73.)

Note: Teams in italics are not qualified for the World Cup.

Quarter

The team's quarters are the “Bor sports center” in Bor near Nizhny Novgorod , where the team will also train.

Squad

The preliminary roster was presented on May 17th. On June 2, the final squad was named. The three midfielders Nicolás Lodeiro , Gastón Ramírez and Federico Valverde were deleted .

position	No.	Surname	society	birth date	input rates	Gates	debut	Last use						World Cup participation	World Cup games (before 2018)	World Cup goals (before 2018)
goal	12	Martín Campaña	CA Independiente CS	05/29/1989	001	00	2016	05/27/2016
	01	Fernando Muslera	Galatasaray Istanbul M	06/16/1986	097	00	2009	07.06.2018	5					2010, 2014	11	0
	23	Martín Silva	Vasco da Gama	03/25/1983	011	00	2009	11/14/2017						2010, 2014	0	0
Defense	22nd	Martín Cáceres	Lazio Rome D	04/07/1987	076	04th	2007	07.06.2018	5					2010, 2014	6th	0
	19th	Sebastián Coates	Sporting Lisbon	07.10.1990	030th	02	2011	03/26/2018	1					2014	1	0
	02	José María Giménez	Atlético Madrid E.	01/20/1995	042	05	2013	07.06.2018	4th	1				2014	3	0
	03	Diego Godin	Atlético Madrid E.	02/16/1986	116	08th	2005	07.06.2018	5					2010, 2014	9	1
	16	Maxi Pereira *	FC Porto M	06/08/1984	125	03	2005	07.06.2018						2010, 2014	10	1
	13	Gastón Silva	CA Independiente CS	03/05/1994	017th	00	2014	03/26/2018
	04th	Guillermo Varela	Club Atlético Peñarol MU	March 24, 1993	003	00	2017	03/26/2018	2
midfield	06th	Rodrigo Bentancur	Juventus Turin D.	06/05/1997	007th	00	2017	07.06.2018	5		2
	10	Giorgian De Arrascaeta	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	01/01/06/1994	014th	02	2014	07.06.2018	2
	17th	Diego Laxalt	CFC genoa	02/07/1993	006th	00	2016	07.06.2018	4th
	08th	Nahitan Nández	Boca Juniors M	12/28/1995	012	00	2015	07.06.2018	5
	07th	Cristian Rodríguez	Club Atlético Peñarol MU	09/30/1985	105	11	2003	07.06.2018	5		1			2014	4th	0
	05	Carlos Sánchez	CF Monterrey MA	12/02/1984	035	01	2014	07.06.2018	3
	14th	Lucas Torreira	Sampdoria Genoa	02/11/1996	003	00	2015	07.06.2018	5
	15th	Matías Vecino	Inter Milan	08/24/1991	022nd	01	2016	07.06.2018	5
Storm	21st	Edinson Cavani T.	Paris Saint-Germain D.	02/14/1987	101	42	2008	07.06.2018	4th	3				2010, 2014	10	2
	18th	Maximiliano Gomez	Celta Vigo	08/14/1996	005	00	2017	07.06.2018	2
	11	Christian Stuani	FC Girona	10/12/1986	041	05	2012	07.06.2018	2					2014	4th	0
	09	Luis Suarez **	FC Barcelona D.	01/24/1987	098	51	2007	07.06.2018	5	2				2010, 2014	8th	5
	20th	Jonathan Urretaviscaya	CF Monterrey MA	March 19, 1990	004th	00	2017	11/14/2017
Coaching staff	Trainer	Óscar Tabarez		03/03/1947			2006		5					1990, 2010, 2014	15th
↑ Numbers according to the official squad list ↑ * = the player is a record-breaking Uruguayan national player, ** = the player is a record-breaking Uruguayan goalscorer, T = league top scorer in the World Cup year ↑ D = champions and cup winners in the World Cup year, M = champions in the World Cup year, MA = champions of Apertura 2017 , MU = champions 2017 , P = cup winners in the World Cup year, C = winners of the UEFA Champions League in the World Cup year , E = winner of the Europa League in the World Cup year , CS = winner of the Copa Sudamericana 2017 ↑ a b As of June 7, 2018, after the game against Uzbekistan

Finals

Group draw

Yekaterinburg (VR) Rostov-on-Don (VR) Samara (VR) Sochi (AF) Nizhny Novgorod (VF) boron

Venues and quarters (blue / italic) of the Uruguayan team

For the draw of the qualifying groups on December 1st, Uruguay was assigned to pot 2 and could therefore be drawn into a group with world champions Germany, European champions Portugal or host Russia. Uruguay could not be drawn from any of the four other South American teams. The team to score in the group A on the host, Egypt and Saudi Arabia .

Uruguay has not played against any of the three teams at a World Cup before. Uruguay met the Soviet Union, the predecessor of the Russian team, in the preliminary round of the 1962 World Cup, where the team lost 2-1 and was eliminated for the first time in the preliminary round. Eight years later, they were able to take revenge in the quarter-finals and move into the semi-finals 1-0 after extra time. This is also the only victory against the Soviet team, against which they also lost four times in friendly matches. There was only one friendly game against Egypt, which was won 2-0 in August 2006. Against the Saudis there was a draw and a defeat in two friendlies.

Uruguay has not yet played in the three preliminary round venues.

Group stage / group A matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Uruguay	3	3	0	0	005-000	+5	09
2.	Russia	3	2	0	1	008: 400	+4	06th
3.	Saudi Arabia	3	1	0	2	002: 700	−5	03
4th	Egypt	3	0	0	3	002: 600	−4	00

Fri., June 15, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Yekaterinburg
Egypt	-	Uruguay	0: 1 (0: 0)	90 ′ Giménez
Wed., June 20, 2018, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Rostov-on-Don
Uruguay	-	Saudi Arabia	1: 0 (1: 0)	23. ′ Suarez
Mon., June 25, 2018, 6:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Samara
Uruguay	-	Russia	3: 0 (2: 0)	10. ′ Suárez , 23./Eigentor ′ Cheryshev , 90. ′ Edinson Cavani

After the first two games had been won by both Uruguay and Russia, both teams were already in the round of 16 before the last group game. With a 3-0 win against the Russians, the Celeste secured group victory ; they remained as the only team in the World Cup during the preliminary round without conceding a goal.

Games of the knockout round

Round of 16

Sat., June 30, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi ( Sochi Olympic Stadium )
Uruguay	-	Portugal	2: 1 (1: 0)	7th, 62nd ′ Cavani

Quarter finals

Fri., July 6, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Nizhny Novgorod ( Nizhny Novgorod Stadium )
Uruguay	-	France	0: 2 (0: 1)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cristian Gabriel Rodríguez - Century of International Appearances
2. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
3. ↑ auf.org: Lista para la preparación
4. ↑ auf.org: Plantel de Uruguay para Rusia 2018 ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Kicker and FIFA indicate a different month of birth (January and June)