Uruguay start World Cup with a win as Egypt keep Mohamed Salah on seat

Uruguay start World Cup with a win as Egypt keep Mohamed Salah on seat 

YEKATERINBURG, Russia - Three musings from Uruguay's emotional late 1-0 prevail upon Egypt in Group A.

1. Gimenez grabs it for Uruguay

Uruguay are up and running, and in the most sensational of conditions. They had appeared to be stuck between a rock and a hard place against an obstinate yet constrained Egypt group, missing a large group of shots and striking the post late on. Be that as it may, a late victor from Jose Gimenez, who bulleted home a header from Carlos Sanchez's free kick with a moment of typical time to play, started wild festivals among the South American unexpected and leaves Egypt stuck in an unfortunate situation. A win against Russia on Tuesday presently appears to be fundamental for Hector Cuper's side, for whom Mohamed Salah was considered unfit to play and did not rise up out of the seat.

No one expected substantially other than a cagey opening from these two groups on Friday and that is generally what happened, with the two sides willing to sit back at an opportune time. Uruguay made a half-chance in the fourteenth moment when Luis Suarez, very much put to meet Guillermo Varela's reduced, skewed a shot wide of the close post from short proximity. He has changed over more troublesome open doors previously however spurned an obviously better open door only 10 minutes after the fact. At the point when a corner poked off Diego Godin into a plain Suarez's way, an objective appeared to be sure yet he scratched his exertion into the side netting from six yards.

There were no further openings of note before half-time of a serene undertaking viewed by a disappointingly meager yet vocal group. However, in the principal moment of the second half Suarez let Egypt free once more, running onto a charming ball from Edinson Cavani yet permitting Mohamed El Shenawy to spread himself well and spare.

No one bar Suarez got a sniff of objective as the match floated on. At that point, incredibly the Barcelona striker lightened his lines again 17 minutes from time, getting himself one-on-one with El Shenawy on the left half of the zone however taking too long to choose his wrap up. Inevitably, the goalkeeper covered the free ball at his feet.

El Shenawy would spare his best work of the counterpart for the 83rd moment, throwing himself over his objective to paw away a Cavani volley after Suarez had gestured the ball into his partner's way. Cavani would come nearer still with only two minutes to go, whipping a free kick onto the post and seeing Godin's objective bound follow-up accidentally obstructed by his own partner. That appeared to be it and as the two sides appeared to be bound for a point, Gimenez flew up minutes after the fact to win the day and leave Egypt supplicating that Salah's shoulder is authoritatively coordinate prepared by Tuesday night.

Jose Gimenez of Uruguay celebrates in the wake of scoring his group's champ. Mike Hewitt/FIFA by means of Getty Images

2. Crushed Egypt miss charm Salah

How pitiless this was for Egypt, who end up on the verge as of now and can't bear the cost of any slip-ups against the host country. Their players drooped to the ground at full-time; they'd given everything except for without Salah's essence in assault, they never extremely undermined Uruguay's objective and were wobbling perilously before Gimenez scored.

This was never going to be a full-throttle Egypt side. Salah is the man who gives their X factor and without him the sense was that Cuper would have been glad to baffle Uruguay, hang on for a point and put money on taking care of business against Russia and Saudi Arabia with his star man in better wellbeing.

Egypt really started emphatically, moderately, and when they pressed Uruguay, they looked equipped for getting among their resistance. Be that as it may, the amusement subsided into its normal example rapidly enough.

Under Cuper, Egypt have been condemned for adopting a protective strategy, a reality the veteran mentor recognized in his prematch news gathering. On Friday, it appeared like the correct activity. They are especially all around bored and the Arsenal midfielder Mohamed Elneny was the linchpin of their approach, protecting the guard and snapping into challenges yet every so often driving an energize higher. The loss of Tarek Hamed, Elneny's accomplice in the center, to damage ahead of schedule in the second half didn't change things excessively, it is possible that; they stayed reduced and spiky, representing an expanding danger on the break.

The landing of winger Kahraba (which signifies "Power") included some genuinely necessary start and he verged on setting up a possibility for Elneny, just for Martin Caceres to make an indispensable capture attempt. Yet, in truth Egypt made next to no and it was not until the 72nd moment, when a theoretical Amr Warda exertion drew a jumping save from Fernando Muslera, that they represented any genuine issues.

Kahraba's presentation was a reasonable sign that Salah had never truly been in the racing to play here. The expectation must be that given four days' additional preparation and recuperation, he is prepared to spare Egypt's World Cup in St. Petersburg.

Egypt contended energetically however looked particularly restricted without their charm Salah, who viewed from the seat. AP Photo/Mark Baker

3. Degenerate Suarez sees his becomes flushed saved

What an alleviation Gimenez's intercession was for Suarez and what an incongruity that for all their assaulting wizardry, it took a transcending hop from a middle back to break Egypt's opposition.

Suarez looked off-enter from the begin in a Uruguay execution that, best case scenario, gleamed. When he shot wide from before objective halfway through the principal half - inciting a twofold take from for all intents and purposes everybody in the stadium as the net undulated yet the ball flew behind - it was enticing to think about whether he was searching for better approaches to end up a World Cup wannabe.

In 2010, Suarez's hands earned him reputation; in 2014 it was his teeth; so far at Russia 2018, his inefficiency with his feet has taken a toll him and he's coming up short on time to make the sort of exciting effect on this phase his ability merits.

At best, Suarez would have scored a cap trap here and if Uruguay are to accomplish anything of note in Russia, they will expect more than this. The same goes for Cavani, who played one keen through-ball and consolidated intelligently on different events yet could straightforwardly undermine just once himself. The idea soon happened that on occasion Uruguay's star strike combine can block as much as they help.

That may sound absurd however Uruguay have been lauded for a more liquid approach over the previous year yet relinquished it on Friday. As Egypt sat in, they turned out to be less formed and looked to hit their front men before, maybe trusting they would summon some enchantment. None came, as it turned out, and it was an evening when anybody planning to see Rodrigo Betancur or Giorgian De Arrascaeta, the last an agreeable No. 10, take things by the scruff of the neck would be painfully baffled. Suarez and Cavani may have set up chances for each other however this should be a Uruguay agree with included hazard from somewhere else and for extensive stretches their partners neglected to advance up.

When one did, however, the impact was colossal. Gimenez may very well have started this super-skilled Uruguay side into life yet Suarez specifically should discover his shooting boots when better adversaries come calling.