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Choked on the Penalty Kick maybe, Boone. But Ghana was the team trying to win the damn thing while Uruguay was playing for Penalty Kicks with time still on the clock. They just kept attacking. To win by taking a Red Card for a hand ball to stop a real goal in real time . . . Pretty lame if you ask me and a real spit in the face of the spirit of the game.
Not sure I could be happy about it if were in Uruguay's shoes.
To be fair, the rules are the rules. Hard to call it a 'spit in the face of the spirit of the game' when they called exactly what established FIFA rules say they have to call Bob. Looking at it any other way is kind of like crying foul because an NFL team got outplayed for most of a game only to lose it on a 62 yard FG with time expiring. It might suck, but its part of the game.
I agree that Ghana went for it in the bonus period...but I think Uruguay figured (and it turned out they were dead-on correct) that they had the edge in experience, maturity, and calm if it went to penalty kicks. So what might have looked like a greater desire by Ghana may in fact have been as much the result of Uruguay to take a calculated risk that their better chance was to play for penalty kicks. On the game overall, I thought it was extremely close match - at one point, they'd each had exactly 50 possessions. So I don't buy that Ghana deserved it more (not that you're arguing that).