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- FIFA World Cup 2022 South Korea vs Portugal Live Score Updates: South Korea 0-1 Portugal | Ghana 0-0 Uruguay
FIFA World Cup 2022 South Korea vs Portugal Live Score Updates: South Korea 0-1 Portugal | Ghana 0-0 Uruguay
Cristiano Ronaldo starts for a much-changed Portugal against South Korea on Friday as they look to seal top spot in World Cup Group H. Ronaldo, who scored against Ghana in Portugal's opening game to become the only player to have netted in five World Cups, had missed training on Wednesday. Portugal need just a point against South Korea to clinch top spot, while the Asian side have to win and hope the result in Ghana's clash with Uruguay goes their way too.Read Less
21' - Korea players hovering around the Portugal box with the ball in search of a clear shot on goal. No success yet.
17' - OFFSIDE! Portugal keeper Costa makes a good save to deny Cho Gue-sung, whose header is cleared out by the diving keeper. The ball was then tapped into the net by a Korean player who was in the offside position.
16' - Corner for Korea
15' - SAVE! Korea keeper Kim Seung-gyu makes a good save to deny Joao Cancelo a goal from a tight angle on the left flank.
9' - Portugal keeper Diogo Costa charges out to catch the ball at the penalty area to stop a Korea attack.
5' - GOAL!!! Ricardo Horta scores to put Portugal in the lead early in the game
Portugal took the lead inside five minutes of the contest at Education City stadium. Horta with a good finish from close range. Dalot ran to the byline before cutting the ball back to Horta on the edge of the six-yard box. The winger shot the first-time touch into the far corner.
4' - The ball in from the right flank goes straight to Korea keeper Kim Seung-gyu. No trouble at all.
3' - Antonio Silva (19 years & 33 days) is the first-ever teenager to appear for Portugal in a World Cup match.
Here we go...KICK OFF TIME! South Korea get the ball rolling at Education City stadium
Time for the national anthems
Previous meetings: Their only previous meeting was in the infamous 2010 World Cup quarter-final, when Uruguay's Luis Suarez was sent off for a blatant handball only for Ghana to miss the resulting penalty and lose the shootout after the match finished 1-1 after extra time.
* Uruguay, who have yet to score at this year's finals, have only failed to qualify for the knockout phase in one of their last six World Cup appearances.
* Ghana's two group games have featured 10 goals. They were on the wrong end of a five-goal thriller against Portugal but beat South Korea 3-2, snapping their six-game winless run in the World Cup group stage.
Previous meetings: South Korea defeated Portugal 1-0 in a group game at the World Cup in 2002 as Park Ji-sung scored for the Asian side, which was then managed by Guus Hiddink.
* South Korea are the only Asian country to have reached the semi-finals of the World Cup, when they were co-hosts in 2002, while Portugal's best achievement was the third-place finish in 1966.
* Portugal have lost only one of their last 14 World Cup group-stage matches (W8 D5).
TEAM NEWS: Uruguay opt for Suarez against Ghana
Uruguay give a start to veteran striker Luis Suarez and have dropped captain Diego Godin from their defence for their must-win World Cup Group H decider against Ghana on Friday. Suarez, playing in his fourth World Cup, will be at the centre of a three-man attack with Darwin Nunez and Facundo Pellistri, who gets a start for the second time, in a match the South Americans have to win to avoid their first group stage exit since 2002. The 35-year-old Suarez is reviled in Ghana for using his hand in the 2010 World Cup to block a Ghana stoppage-time winner in the quarter-finals. Suarez was sent off in that match, but the Africans missed the resulting spot kick and eventually lost in a penalty shootout. Ghana, who will go through to the last 16 with a win, make two changes to the team that beat South Korea 3-2, restoring Alidu Seidu and Baba Rahman to the fullback positions they played in during the opening game against Portugal, in place of Tariq Lamptey and Gideon Mensah.
Uruguay Starting XI vs Ghana: Sergio Rochet, Sebastian Coates, Giorgian de Arrascaeta, Jose Maria Gimenez, Guillermo Varela, Mathias Olivera, Rodrigo Bentancur, Facundo Pellistri, Federico Valverde, Luis Suarez, Darwin Nunez.
Ghana Starting XI vs Uruguay: Lawrence Ati-Zigi, Alidu Seidu, Daniel Amartey, Mohammed Salisu, Baba Rahman, Thomas Partey, Salis Abdul Samed, Mohammed Kudus, Andre Ayew, Jordan Ayew, Inaki Williams