{"id":485000,"date":"2024-07-07T01:31:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T05:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485000"},"modified":"2024-07-07T01:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T05:31:41","slug":"uruguay-knocks-out-brazil-on-penalties-to-reach-copa-america-semis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/uruguay-knocks-out-brazil-on-penalties-to-reach-copa-america-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay knocks out Brazil on penalties to reach Copa America semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uruguay edged Brazil 4-2 in a penalty shootout on Saturday, securing their place in the Copa America semi-finals after a bruising 0-0 draw at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Despite being down to 10 men, Uruguay managed to hold on and advance to face Colombia in the next round.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">URUGUAY DEFEAT BRAZIL ON PENALTIES AND ARE THROUGH TO THE COPA AM\u00c9RICA SEMIFINALS \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddfe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r7tQZooXdk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/r7tQZooXdk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1809786201727012910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With Vinicius Jr suspended and watching from the stands, Brazil struggled to create opportunities. The situation should have been in their favor late in the second half when Uruguay&#8217;s Nahitan Nandez was sent off, but they couldn&#8217;t capitalize on their man-advantage.<\/p>\n<p>In the shootout, Uruguay&#8217;s goalkeeper Sergio Rochet saved Brazil&#8217;s first penalty taken by Eder Militao, and Douglas Luiz hit the post, giving Uruguay the upper hand.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Darwin Nunez consoles Alisson after Uruguay knock Brazil out of Copa America \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddfe\u2764\ufe0f\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all love between the Liverpool teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Watch \ud83d\udcf2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tLmqJcQbi8\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/tLmqJcQbi8<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CA2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CA2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R8hhBcDoeY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/R8hhBcDoeY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Optus Sport (@OptusSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptusSport\/status\/1809792937783705905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Although Brazil&#8217;s keeper Alisson Becker managed to save a penalty from Jose Maria Gimenez and Gabriel Martinelli scored to keep Brazil in contention, Manuel Ugarte buried the decisive spot-kick, sending Uruguay through as they continue their quest for a record 16th Copa crown.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-_mpCjOZ3UE?si=HuuvvQdUtQgpVAYZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uruguay edged Brazil 4-2 in a penalty shootout on Saturday, securing their place in the Copa America semi-finals after a bruising 0-0 draw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485001,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16933,22265,19287],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[19951,22266,19289],"acf":{"announce":"Despite being down to 10 men, Uruguay held off Brazil's pressure","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485003,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485000\/revisions\/485003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485000"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485000"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}