On one hand, all the top contenders to the world cup are beginning their Brazil campaign with flying colors, there are few who are still fighting with their own problems, like injuries to star players, and that is why they are little nervous to perform as expected by the fans. We are talking about Uruguayan side and their debacle start in the tourney where they lost to Costa Rica surprisingly with a 3-1 margin and guess whom this side had been missing throughout the game? Yes, you guessed it right; it is Liverpool’s heavyweight Luis Suarez who is still not fully recovered off his pretournament injury. In fact, if manager Oscar Tabarez’s vibes are to be believed he could miss the entire event though not confirmed by anyone officially. Unlike other probables to take the crown, more than a century old team could not prove that they are among the few who have been ruling this FIFA event since a century ago. They conceived three goals and fired just one that too by Edinson Cavani in the first half. Second half proved to be the lethal for them when they conceived two goals in a quick succession – within five minutes. The absence of Suarez was tried to be filled-in by Nicholas Loderio, Alvaro Gonzalez, and Abel Hernandez but none of them could do anything to restrict firing attacks by Jorge Luis Pinto army.
To calm down the aggressive fans, Tabarez said after the match that “(Suarez ) is no longer hurt. (Else) he wouldn’t have been on the bench as a substitute. He has gone through the phases that we have foreseen in his recovery. There were uncertainties that were lingering as far his fitness was concerned. Therefore it was very improbable that he would be able to come on the pitch.”
Nonetheless whatever he said to cool down angriest fans, media has flashed the stories raising doubts over 27-year-old forward who has been in terrific form in just concluded English premier league. Blaming the loss to the whole team, 67-year-old former defender added, “We made incomprehensible mistakes that the team has not made in years, but we did today. There were errors and maybe not only on the pitch. About those I will take responsibility. But we can’t stay down.
“No team can believe that these are things that can’t happen to them. We even talked a lot about this with the team after what happened to Spain against the Netherlands.”