Uruguay beat 5-0 Panama in a friendly on Saturday in Montevideo in his last home appearance before the World Cup at the end of the year, with a ‘double’ from Edinson Cavani. The 35-year-old ‘Matador’ opened the scoring in the 38th minute and scored again in the 48th minute (from a penalty), before Nicolás de la Cruz (57 ‘), Maximiliano Gómez (66’) and Diego Rossi (78). ‘).
It must be said that Diego Alonso’s ‘Celeste’ is facing a team from Panama bis, under the direction of this country’s Sub 20 coach. This rival is the fifth option to play this friendly after defects in the turn of Jamaica, Iran, Zambia and El Salvador.
In addition to Cavani, other experienced elements appeared on the pitch at Centenario, such as goalkeeper Fernando Muslera and defender Martín Cáceres. But others are missing, none due to injury (Luis Suárez, Diego Godín, José María Giménez, Rodrigo Bentancourt).
Uruguay, who plan to play other friends in September, are in Group H of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar along with Portugal, South Korea and Ghana.
Source: La Verdad
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