After six games played, the albiceleste remains undefeated
In total, Uruguay made seven substitutions, something that caused some confusion.
With many novelties in its eleven, Uruguay dominated the United States this Sunday and had the best chances, but failed to hit the target and ended up drawing goalless this warm-up match for Qatar World Cup 2022 which was played in Kansas City, Missouri.
Under the direction of Diego Alonso, La Celeste still knows no defeat after six games (five wins and one draw).
Even more impressive is the streak of the United States, which has 25 consecutive games without losing at home.
After the resounding 0-3 win in their friendly on Thursday against Mexico, Alonso opted for the rotations and presented an eleven with many unusual.
Edinson Cavani and Fede Valverde, for example, came out on the pitch in the second half.
With these starting news, La Celeste entered the match with great force.
Already in minute 5 he had his first chance against the boots of Darwin Núñez, who could not connect a center from Martín Cáceres.
Uruguay attacked with great danger down the right flank, from where a pass from Guillermo Varela arose for a header from Maxi Gómez that went high.
Diego Godín was also able to put his men ahead, but his shot after a rebound he was saved at the goal line by DeAndre Yedlin.
After the succession of chances for the Uruguayans, America woke up and began to put the visiting defense in trouble.
Jesús Ferreira unsettled Uruguay from the right wing but the clearest chance for the Americans was for Weston McKennie, who missed a powerful cross from Christian Pulisic with his head, already very close to the goal.
The first change came in 35 when José María Giménez left the field due to injury and was replaced by Sebastian Coates.
The match had been back and forth from the opening whistle, but Uruguay and the USA called a truce and slowed down before the break.
On reboot, Uruguay exploited the errors in the US ball exit. with Núñez as spearhead.
The striker had a good opportunity with a shot to the far post that went just wide and, minutes later, he put a perfect cross to Fernando Gorriarán, who, however, did not send the ball to the net due to a bad dribble shot early.
Even clearer was the occasion of Mathías Olivera, who finished off a Fede Valverde cross in the small area but ran into a great desperate save by Sean Johnson.
The rhythm dropped quite a bit in the last third of the match and the two teams seemed to take the tie for granted, but in added time Cavani received a precise pass from Núñez and could not push it when Johnson was no longer under the goal.
Finally, the anecdote of the day had to do with the number of substitutions allowed in this friendly, which in principle were six.
Nevertheless, Uruguay made seven substitutions and this caused a few minutes of confusion and conversations between the two benches that in the end were resolved without major problems.
– Data sheet:
0. United States: Sean Johnson; DeAndre Yedlin (Antonee Robinson, m.62), Walker Zimmerman, Aaron Long (Erik Palmer-Brown, m.46), Joe Scally; Weston McKennie (Paul Arriola, m.46), Tyler Adams, Yunus Musah (Luca de la Torre, m.85); Tim Weah (Brenden Aaronson, m.46), Jesús Ferreira (Haji Wright, m.61), Christian Pulisic.
Coach: Gregg Berhalter.
0. Uruguay: Fernando Muslera; Martín Cáceres, Diego Godín (Mathías Olivera, m.46), José María Giménez (Sebastián Coates, m.35); Guillermo Varela (Facundo Pellistri, m.68), Manuel Ugarte (Fede Valverde, m.61), Mauro Arambarri (Matías Vecino, m.60), Matías Viña; Maxi Goméz (Edinson Cavani, m.61), Fernando Gorriarán (Diego Rossi, m.67) and Darwin Núñez.
Coach: Diego Alonso.
Referee: Adonai Escobedo from Mexico. He admonished Fede Valverde.
Incidents: Friendly match between the United States and Uruguay played at the Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City (Missouri, USA).