The tense clash at the World Cup between Luis Suárez and the Ghana players

The duel between Ghana and Uruguay in Qatar already looked set to be very controversial because of what happened at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, making the atmosphere even more tense in this 2022 edition when the third and final matchday decided which team would join Portugal in the round of 16 as representatives of Group H, with both sides playing an all or nothing game like in those quarter-finals where Luis Suarez was both hero and villain at the same time.

That footballing zero resource made by striker Luis Suarez has not been erased from the minds of some Ghanaian national team players, because although the 2010 group was almost completely dissolved, striker André Ayew is one of the few survivors of that tragedy, showing in this 2022 match the deep anger he has for the Uruguayan legend who seems not to take importance of that event that also marked his career.

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The attacker of the African team in that distant World Cup in South Africa could do nothing to help his team in the main objective which was to advance to that coveted semifinal stage, having to watch from the bench as that hand of his rival kept the South Americans alive until the last second, demoralising André and his teammates and from the eleven penalty where a genius of Sebastian Abreu remained as the postcard of that confrontation.

Although in 2022 things changed and Ayew started the match in search of qualification to the round of 16 and a rematch for that match, this attacker could do little and nothing in 46 minutes that he was on the pitch, being once again a victim of a Uruguay that on this occasion did beat the Africans in a fair and clean way the match, staying for more than 70 minutes the Africans very frustrated to see how once again that team left them out of the competition.

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Ghana as a team could not successfully consummate those pending accounts that they had with Uruguay for more than a decade, but collaterally they could observe how the former Liverpool player and his teammates entered into despair to see that the 2-0 in their favour was not enough to advance to the round of 16 as in the other match South Korea gave the surprise by beating Portugal, ending the activities of Group H with the light blue team in third place and eliminated along with the Africans.

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