World Cup 2022: Ghana aim for revenge against Uruguay for 2010 exit

Luis Suarez was shown a consecutive reddish paper for this handball against Ghana that saved a definite extremity successful the 2010 World Cup quarter-finals

In 2010, Ghana were the width of a crossbar distant from becoming the archetypal African squad to scope the World Cup semi-finals.

It meant the crippled ended 2-2 and Uruguay went connected to triumph a melodramatic shootout, which Suarez celebrated wildly.

The 2 teams conscionable again astatine 15:00 GMT connected Friday. For Ghana, it is simply a long-awaited accidental to get revenge. For Suarez, it prompted more questions.

This is simply a important lucifer successful Group H, with Ghana knowing triumph volition nonstop them done and Uruguay needing triumph to basal a accidental of qualification.

The lucifer 12 years agone was 1 of the astir arguable successful World Cup past and BBC World Service has produced a programme connected what happened and however it volition power their gathering successful the existent World Cup.

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"When the gully was made and they saw Uruguay successful Ghana's group, the lone happening successful people's caput was revenge. Ghana wants revenge, it is motivation," Gyan told the BBC.

"People each implicit the satellite cognize what happened. It is down me, but I'm quality and it's successful the backmost of my mind.

"We person South Korea, Portugal and Uruguay - and the astir important crippled for Ghana is against Uruguay. It is successful the backmost of everybody's mind, going for revenge, revenge, revenge.

"Our extremity is to suffice for the adjacent signifier of the competition. If we are going to deliberation Uruguay, Uruguay, Uruguay it is going to beryllium a mistake. We person to qualify, that's the astir important thing."

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'I don't cognize however that punishment went high'

Gyan, who joined Sunderland aft the 2010 World Cup successful a past club-record £13m transfer, scored 3 goals successful South Africa and Ghana were connected the onslaught successful the past infinitesimal of other clip arsenic their thrilling 2010 quarter-final with Uruguay was tied astatine 2-2.

Suarez blatantly blocked Dominic Adiyiah's header connected the enactment with his manus and was promptly sent disconnected - but Gyan could not instrumentality vantage arsenic his punishment bounced disconnected the bar. Suarez, watching connected from the tunnel, wildly celebrated the miss.

Asamoah Gyan deed the crossbar with a punishment that would person taken Ghana into the 2010 World Cup semi-finals

The lucifer went to a punishment shootout and Gyan scored Ghana's archetypal penalty, but Uruguay won 4-2 earlier losing to Netherlands successful the semi-final.

"I scored a punishment successful the archetypal game, a precise important 1 against Serbia and I scored against Australia done a punishment arsenic well," recalled Gyan, present 36 and without a club.

"I scored successful other clip against America truthful the assurance level was that high. Against Uruguay erstwhile we had a penalty, though determination was pressure, I was the astir assured subordinate successful the world.

"I conscionable needed to measurement up and shoot. Honestly I volition accidental it was 1 of these days due to the fact that my penalties bash not spell that high.

"I didn't cognize however that punishment went high. I deliberation it was a method mistake oregon something.

"When we went to the punishment shootout I conscionable wanted to beryllium a point. I had to measurement up and I scored - you person to travel backmost and beryllium yourself."

Ghana fans incapable to forgive Suarez

Much to Ghana's annoyance, Luis Suarez (right) celebrated wildly astatine the extremity of Uruguay's triumph successful 2010

Suarez, present 35, is successful Uruguay's World Cup squad but is inactive a hated fig successful Ghana 12 years on.

Ghanaian sports broadcaster Juliet Bawuah said: "I'm yet to conscionable a Ghanaian shot instrumentality who is consenting to forgive Suarez for that travesty of shot justice.

"A batch of radical deliberation if the Black Stars had beaten Uruguay they would've gone to triumph that World Cup and fixed Africans thing to clasp connected to for years.

"Any clip Suarez was playing for Liverpool, if thing happened to him similar an injury, helium gets a yellowish card, helium gets sent off, helium gets punished by the FA, past radical were happy. No-one wants to perceive his name."

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