DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Coach Paulo Bento acknowledged there are hazards for final season’s Premier League joint high scorer Son Heung-min when he takes the sector sporting a masks within the Group H opener towards Uruguay within the World Cup.Son hasn’t performed since fracturing his left eye socket on Nov. 2 in a Champions League match taking part in for his English membership Tottenham in a collision with Marseille participant Chancel Mbemba.“He is aware of, and we all know, that after this harm we can’t rule out any dangers,” Bento stated.Son and his teammates face a bodily Uruguay group that blends the expertise of veteran forwards Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani — each showing at their fourth World Cup — with a supporting solid of promising younger gamers led by Federico Valverde of Actual Madrid.Bento referred to as coaching periods with Son “regular” however stated the take a look at comes when the match begins.“We’ll see tomorrow how will probably be,” Bento stated. “Our hope is that he’ll really feel snug to the best extent attainable. And we’ll use one of the best technique in the course of the sport so he can really feel comfy.”Son has scored 35 objectives in 104 internationals however there should be worries about how efficient he might be — and what the risks are of taking part in with the masks, which he has worn in coaching since arriving in Qatar.Uruguay coach Diego Alonso was requested by a South Korea reporter if he would attempt to reap the benefits of Son’s harm. “The one benefit we’ll (have) right here is with our soccer,” Alonso replied. “We’ll attempt to be higher than them and to make use of our gamers — and to not use every other difficulties within the different group.”Uruguay is dealing with a generational change on the sector with Suarez and Cavani possible at their final World Cup. The youth is personified by 24-year-old Valverde, who’s scoring objectives and including assists.Uruguay gamers are additionally well-known for his or her dedication to the nationwide group, which Alonso praised. “With numerous hope and numerous want,” Alonso stated to explain his group. “The nationwide group is the precedence. That is what distinguishes the Uruguayans; they’re at all times targeted on the nationwide group.”Each Suarez and Cavani signed with new groups to make sure they obtained common taking part in minutes forward of the World Cup. Cavani moved from Manchester United to Valencia whereas Suarez returned to his boyhood membership Nacional after a profitable spell at Atletico Madrid.Suarez has scored seven World Cup objectives. That’s one in need of the nationwide file by Oscar Miguez from the 1950 successful World Cup group.There’s change on the bench, too. Oscar Tabarez is gone and changed by Alonso, who has little expertise at this stage. Tabarez led Uruguay at three World Cups however stepped away earlier this yr after a sequence of poor outcomes. It was Tabarez that took the group to the semifinals of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.Suarez is notorious for a number of biting incidents on the sector. In a match within the 2018 World Cup in Brazil, he bit Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder. The referee didn’t see the incident, however Suarez was later suspended from all football-related exercise for 4 months, slapped with a nine-match worldwide ban and given an enormous tremendous.It was Suarez’s second controversial World Cup second. Within the final minute of additional time on the 2010 quarterfinal match towards Ghana, Suarez was despatched off after he used his fingers to maintain out Dominic Adiyiah’s goal-bound header. Asamoah Gyan hit the bar on the following penalty, and Suárez was proven celebrating on the sideline.Ghana went on to lose the penalty shootout, thereby failing to develop into Africa’s first semifinalist because the continent staged its first World Cup.Brazil and Serbia spherical out Group H, with many viewing Brazil because the match favourite.___AP World Cup protection: https://Fifanews.com/hub/world-cup
World Cup options Uruguay’s Suarez vs. South Korea’s Son
