Jordan v Uruguay is on now
Stone me! Strange things happen in football at times - hard to believe but after their 5-0 home humiliation last week, Jordan got a 0-0 in Montevideo !!! I was expecting a 7-0 or something...Sounds like Jordan well & truly parked the bus (credit to Ricki for not doing that in Wellie)
Makes our scoreline aggregate the worst of the play-offs now = 2-9
http://gulfnews.com/sport/football/uruguay-draw-0-0-to-reach-brazil-2014-1.1257945
"....Left back Martin Caceres suggested that winning the first leg by such a big margin had made it harder to concentrate in the second.
“After winning 5-0 it was going to get complicated, we knew we had to take the match seriously,” he added. “We’d have liked to give the crowd a triumph and at least one goal to shout about but it wasn’t to be, that’s football.”
Despite needing to score at least five to have any hope of overturning the deficit, Jordan defended deep and in numbers on Wednesday, denying the South Americans scoring chances and making sure there would be no repeat of the 5-0 mauling.
The closest the home side came to scoring was when centre back Diego Godin headed against the bar just before halftime, but the lack of goals failed to dampen celebrations on the pitch or among the crowd of 60,000 in the stands.
“[Jordan] got what they wanted, a dignified role and a result that I suppose for them is very important,” coach Oscar Tabarez told the post-match news conference.
“We must accept...that the main reason why we couldn’t win was our rivals’ good tactics.”
Jordan’s Egyptian coach Hossam Hassan was pleased with his team’s reaction to their punishing defeat at home.
“We played very well, we met a very good team, very strong, with players from different parts of the world,” Hassan said.