The Uruguayans did not feel the need to sit back and defend as they did against the French. This positive attitude produced a much better and more threatening Uruguayan performance that looked to clearly overmatch the South Africans.
Uruguay started the scoring in the 24th minute, when Diego Forlan gave it a go from 25 yards out. His shot took a slight deflection off a South African defender, helping it to dip just under the crossbar and give Uruguay the 1-0 lead.
Uruguay had the lead and the better half of football when the break came around and with the scoreboard reading 1-0 in favor of Uruguay.
South Africa continued to struggle against clearly a more talented Uruguay squad in the second half. They seemed to always be a step behind and struggled to create any form of possession or creativity to worry Uruguay.
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Bafana Bafana needed a big moment to lift them and their supporters like in the Mexico match, but quite the opposite happened, when Uruguay’s Luis Suarez ran onto a deflected shot deep in the South Africa area, and was all alone on the keeper. He touched by Itumeleng Khune and had his foot kicked out by the goalie, resulting in not only a penalty, but a red card for the South African keeper.
The spot kick and expulsion decisions were quite obvious as the referee wasn’t really given any other option, as Khune clearly took away a direct scoring opportunity.
Diego Forlan stepped to the spot after the substitution delay and calmly roofed the penalty and gave Uruguay the 2-0 lead.
South Africa was clearly devastated by the deficit and basically threw in the towel on the match, as even their supporters started to head for the exits after the lead was doubled.
Uruguay didn’t stop there.
In the fifth minute of stoppage time, Forlan was once again involved by switching the field nicely to the foot of Suarez, who calmly side-footed a pass back across the area to the back post where Alvaro Pereira easily headed off his own leg and into the net.
It was the dagger that gave Uruguay the 3-0 victory over the crushed hosts.
South Africa played like their ranking in tonight’s match. They didn’t have the emotion and fight that they played with in their opener, and it cost them dearly.
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