Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac is frantically trying to encourage his players to push out of their own half because they are under pressure at the moment. Moments later Diego Forlan's wicked cross from the left beats the keeper, but Luis Suarez finds the angle too tight and can only hit the side-netting.
Preferably strong. The stunning Sulley Muntari goal put Ghana up 0-1 in scoring at the half.
We are back under way at the magnificent Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg. Kevin-Prince Boateng overhits a cross from the Ghana right as they try to break and it runs out of play as he bows his head.
In the 2010 World Cup, Ghana progressed beyond the group stages, and reached the quarter-finals where they were eliminated by Uruguay. They've been holding on to it in areas where they could release it.
That's chance number one - Diego Forlan whips over a free-kick from the right and Luis Suarez gets there first, his glancing, stooping header saved at his near post by Richard Kingson. Kwadwo Asamoah flings over a top-class pass from the right into the Uruguay area and Sulley Muntari heads wide from an angle on the left. Even the Vuvuzelas have quietened down inside Soccer City - are the Ghana fans saving their puff for the 30 extra minutes? "The match has got very scrappy, there are a lot of tired legs out there. Some of the Ghana players are absolutely devastated.
Diego Forlan plays an exquisite pass out to the right to Luis Suarez, but his first touch is a bit heavy and he cannot get his shot away. There isn't much going on inside Soccer City at the moment, though Ghana are the better team and a cross from the right is headed wide by Asamoah Gyan. "The players of both sides have been making the wrong choice with the final ball. Abreu is known as El Loco. In the stadium designed in the style of an African cooking implement, a continent's hopes are in the melting pot now. I'm off outside to try and cheer up the Ghana fans who will be trudging away from Soccer City stadium as I type these very words.
And, perhaps crucially, do you think I'd be the only person buying it? We know it will very difficult. Another corner from the left is flicked on and hits John Mensah, with Richard Kingson pulling off a great reflex save. Uruguay are bossing this and Diego Forlan is looking very dangerous on the break, along with partner-in-crime Luis Suarez. See you on Saturday for Ghana seemed certain to become the first African side to reach the last four of the competition when Luis Suarez saw red after handling on the line in the dying seconds of extra-time.However, striker Asamoah Gyan, who had already converted two penalties in South Africa, skimmed the crossbar with the last kick of the game.Gyan showed incredible guts to take the first spot-kick of the shoot-out but John Mensah and Dominic Adiyiah both had their low strikes saved by Fernando Muslera.And Sebsatian Abreu then showed ice-cold composure to dink the decisive penalty beyond Richard Kingson as Uruguay sealed a semi-final tie against the Netherlands.Suarez's deliberate handball, which came seconds after he had legitimately blocked one goal-bound effort with his knee, was a gamble that paid handsome dividends.It was a truly remarkable final few minutes, surely some of the most dramatic in World Cup history, and came at the end of an engrossing and occasionally bad-tempered contest.Both teams enjoyed periods in the ascendancy - and both were guilty of wasting numerous opportunities.Sulley Muntari, almost kicked out of the squad after criticising coach Milovan Rajevac earlier in the competition, struck a long-range opener on the stroke of half-time, while the impressive Diego Forlan equalised with a free-kick 10 minutes after the restart.La Celeste controlled the early part of the contest and their early endeavours twice brought them close to scoring but each time they were denied by Kingson.The first was a reaction save after John Mensah inadvertently deflected a corner towards his own goal and the second an athletic finger-tip effort to deny Suarez, who will be suspended for the semi-final, after the striker capitalised on a slip by Isaac Vorsah.But the South American side, already without injured defender Diego Godin, lost skipper Diego Lugano to injury towards the end of the first half, his withdrawal coming at a time when the Black Stars had started to find a foothold in the match.Rajevac's side had offered almost nothing in attack until Vorsah, recalled in defence in place of the suspended Jonathan Mensah, headed wide from a corner just before the half-hour mark.Gyan then narrowly missed after the industrious Kevin-Prince Boateng picked him out in front of the deep-sitting Uruguay defence with a square ball, while Mutari headed wide after latching on to a raking pass.Even so, it looked as though the match would be goalless at the break until Muntari, gifted the time to assess his options, unleashed a vicious 40-yard strike that caught Muslera off guard.Uruguay brought on Nicolas Lodeiro at the break and the game quickly became stretched as Tabarez's team searched for an equaliser.Edinson Cavani felt he should have been awarded a penalty after he went down under a challenge from Vorsah, but there was no doubt about Forlan's free-kick from a wide angle that drew his team level.Ghana had repeated opportunities to strike on the counter, but they wasted a series of excellent positions with poor pass selection, while Gyan tangled repeatedly with several different members of the Uruguay defence.Uruguay created two good chances for Suarez but he could only guide a cross from Forlan into the side-netting at the far post and drill in a strike that Kingson palmed over.Andres Scotti blocked a shot from Gyan in the first half of extra-time and, minutes before the shoot-out, almost kicked the ball into his own net as he tried to clear it away from the dangerous Ghana striker.The Black Stars were dominant in the closing minutes of extra-time as their opponents visibly tired and, after Suarez legally denied Steven Appiah and then Adiyiah - illegally - the match took its dramatic final twist.BBC Sport's Paul Fletcher at Soccer City, Johannesburg:BBC Sport's Paul Fletcher at Soccer City, Johannesburg:BBC Sport's Paul Fletcher at Soccer City, Johannesburg:BBC Sport's Paul Fletcher at Soccer City, Johannesburg:BBC Sport's Paul Fletcher at Soccer City, Johannesburg:BBC Sport's Paul Fletcher at Soccer City, Johannesburg:BBC Sport's Paul Fletcher at Soccer City, Johannesburg:BBC Sport's Paul Fletcher at Soccer City, Johannesburg:
It is important how we start and that we try and impose ourselves on Uruguay from the beginning. A draw against France and then wins over South Africa, Mexico and If there isn't a winner in the next 15 minutes, I'm going to need a drumroll and something to calm my nerves.
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