The final 2010 World Cup spot was determined on Wednesday as Costa Rica and Uruguay played in the second leg of the CONCACAF/CONMEBOL Playoff. Uruguay had a 1-0 lead after the first leg with the second leg taking place on Wednesday, November 18, 2009. Here’s a recap of that match along with video highlights.
Uruguay defeats Costa Rica 1-1 (2-1 on aggregate) – Video Highlights
Uruguay had a 1-0 lead heading into the second leg at home and held on with a 1-1 draw. They temporarily had a 2-0 lead with a 69th minute goal from Sebastian Abreu but Costa Rica would fight back. They would score only four minutes later as Walter Centeno made it 1-1. Costa Rica still needed another goal but wouldn’t be able to find it as Uruguay would hang on for the draw. They would move onto South Africa with a 2-1 aggregate win.
URU
- 1 Nestor MUSLERA (GK)
- 2 Diego LUGANO (C)
- 3 Diego GODIN
- 6 Andres SCOTTI
(-72′ ) - 8 Sebastian EGUREN
- 9 Luis SUAREZ (-65′ )
- 10 Diego FORLAN
- 11 Alvaro PEREIRA
- 14 Nicolás LODEIRO (-84′ )
- 15 Diego PEREZ
- 16 Maximiliano PEREIRA
- (GK) Keilor NAVAS 1
- (-69′)
Luis MARIN 3 - Michael UMANA 4
- (-58′) Celso BORGES 5
(C) Walter CENTENO 10- Brian RUIZ 11
- Roy MILLER 13
- Cristian BOLANOS 14
- Junior DIAZ 15
- (-64′) Victor NUNEZ 16
- Pablo HERRERA 17
- 4 Mauricio VICTORINO
(+72′) - 5 Walter GARGANO
- 7 Alvaro FERNANDEZ (+84′)
- 12 Juan CASTILLO
- 13 Sebastian ABREU (+65′)
- 17 Alvaro GONZALEZ
- 18 Sebastian FERNANDEZ
- Esteban SIRIAS 2
- (+58′)
Michael BARRANTES 6 - (+64′) Rolando FONSECA 7
- Christian MONTERO 8
- (+69′) Alvaro SABORIO 9
- Douglas SEQUEIRA 12
- Ricardo GONZALEZ 18
- Referee: Massimo BUSACCA (SUI)
- Assistant Referee 1: Matthias ARNET (SUI)
- Assistant Referee 2: Manuel NAVARRO (SUI)
- Fourth official: Carlo BERTOLINI (SUI)
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