For a fourth straight day at the 2022 World Cup, group finales have created immense drama in Qatar.
Uruguay, playing Ghana 12 years after a famous matchup in South Africa, won 2-0 and thought it had a spot in the knockout stage in the bag. But South Korea battled back from an early deficit in the simultaneous Group H match to beat Portugal 2–1, scoring a stoppage-time winner on a counterattack spearheaded by Son Heung-min and finished off by Hwang Hee-chan. That allowed South Korea to advance over La Celeste on the goals-scored tiebreaker after both were even on points and goal differential.
Ghana, which opened the day looking to deal Uruguay a bit of justice and revenge for what happened in the 2010 quarterfinals, when Luis Suárez’s intentional handball denied Ghana an extra-time goal in the quarterfinals in South Africa, wound up going out as well. But by not conceding a third goal to the South Americans, it at least ensured that it’d take them down and out, too.
