Two dominant offensive displays in a row for Uruguay at the #CopaAmerica pic.twitter.com/1ZEiSARN2n— Between The Posts (@BetweenThePosts) June 21, 2019 This is why i am not a fan of sat-back holding on to the result. It could go wrong anytime, anyday, fortunately, it wasn't. We're very lucky for that. Uruguay xG must be reduced by 1 point though, as it comes from Suarez PK.
I dunno what it means but if the goal is try to say that Uruguay deserved to win it's utter BS. They score 1, I repeat ONE, and suffered 2 by a bunch of kids + 3 overage and the only way they find to equalize was by a VAR incomprehensible mistake (2 times). Japan dominated Greece in 2014 and Belgium in 2018 but they lost and none give a shit about match stats giving credit to the opponents. Now is Japan (u22) time.
This xG thing is too complicated for me but it's clear the eager to score against a so called u22 lesser team made Suarez or Carvani lost their little compose in front of goal. It's not like the Japan's defense had a good game at all. Most of these 2's finishes were in free positions since the defenders were too slow or lost their marks to close them down, if I were Uruguay supporter I would pull my hair off. Well it seems the lucks in Chile and Uruguay cancelled each other off. Against Chile I think Japan created much more clear cut chances but couldn't finish. Against Uruguay their left back and goalie were so bad that Japan scored, other than that there were all half chances situations. Overall I rate Uruguay more than Chile so this 2-2 match would do wonder for the young players' confidences.
My point is, stopping to put pressure to Uruguay in the middle third of the play, and soaking up the pressure and let Cavani getting near and near towards our goal didn't give us any favour. Uruguay also created a lot of shots in the first half, but they came from an irrelevant zone, so they didn't create enough chances that really threaten us in a very long time, until at roughly 60 minutes until the end of the match, We let them completely taking the control the match and they started to get some more legit threat towards our goal.