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Uruguay finished third at the Copa America after a 4-3 penalty shootout victory over Canada following Luis Suarez\u2019s dramatic injury-time equaliser.<\/strong><\/p>\n Canada\u2019s Ismael Kone saw his spot-kick saved by goalkeeper Sergio Rochet and Alphonso Davies missed to hand Uruguay victory.<\/p>\n The match at Charlotte\u2019s Bank of America Stadium went to penalties after it had ended 2-2 in normal time.<\/p>\n Rodrigo Bentancur had earlier fired Uruguay ahead before goals from Kone and Jonathan David put Canada 2-1 up.<\/p>\n However, Suarez equalised in the second minute of injury time for Uruguay to take the contest to spot-kicks.<\/p>\n Suarez scored his effort to make it 4-3 in the shootout after Federico Valverde, Giorgian de Arrascaeta and Bentancur had all converted.<\/p>\n Davies then struck the crossbar with an attempted panenka which hit the crossbar and bounced out.<\/p>\n Uruguay boss Marcelo Bielsa felt his side \u201cbarely deserved\u201d to make it to the shootout and felt they underperformed in the tournament as a whole.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought that given our roster, we could have played a bit better than what we showed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Canada boss Jesse Marsch praised the overall performance of his side as they used the tournament as a stepping stone to the 2026 World Cup which they are co-hosting with the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n Marsch added: \u201cWe\u2019re still a young team. It\u2019s not so easy to build a tactical model with such short time and under such big stresses against such good opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n Copa America holders Argentina face Colombia in the final on Monday.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Uruguay beat Canada to finish third in Copa America<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Uruguay finished third at the Copa America after a 4-3 penalty shootout victory over Canada following Luis Suarez\u2019s dramatic injury-time equaliser. Canada\u2019s Ismael Kone saw his spot-kick saved by goalkeeper Sergio Rochet and Alphonso Davies missed to hand Uruguay victory. The match at Charlotte\u2019s Bank of America Stadium went to penalties after it had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}