South Korea advances on late goal; Uruguay out

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  • Tomas Hill Lopez-Menchero

South Korea scored a singular stoppage-time victor against Portugal to unafraid their advancement to the knockout rounds successful improbable fashion.

It looked arsenic if South Korea would not find the extremity they needed to suffice for the circular of 16 connected goals scored, but Hwang Hee-Chan appeared successful the archetypal infinitesimal of wounded clip to enactment his broadside done aft Kim Young-Gwon had equalised pursuing Ricardo Horta's opener.

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The triumph meant Uruguay were dumped retired of the radical stages contempt beating Ghana 2-0 successful the different Group H crippled and appearing definite to beforehand for overmuch of the evening.

Portugal took a quickfire pb successful the 5th infinitesimal erstwhile Horta turned location pursuing bully enactment from Diogo Dalot down the right-hand broadside -- scoring connected his large tourney debut.

South Korea had the shot successful the nett successful the 17th minute, but Kim Jin-Su was deemed to beryllium offside arsenic helium finished from adjacent scope aft a good prevention from Diogo Costa.

The underdogs had their equaliser successful the 27th minute, however, erstwhile Kim steered a escaped shot past Costa aft a country bounced disconnected Cristiano Ronaldo.

And they recovered the victor erstwhile Son Heung-Min led a superb counter-attack which was finished by Hwang.

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