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ESL Cloze Activity on Uruguay 1 (4) Ghana 1 (2) by Sean Banville

Uruguay their place in the semi-finals by winning a penalty shoot-out. They ended Ghana’s of becoming the first African side ever to reach the last four. It was for the Ghanaians as striker Asamoah Gyan a penalty in what was the last kick of the game in extra time. It was an exciting, often bad-tempered match. Both sides missed many good . Ghana opened the scoring at the end of the first half. Sulley Muntari fired in an shot from 40 metres. Diego Forlan for Uruguay from a free-kick ten minutes after the . It looked like Ghana would go through when Luis Suarez was red-carded for handling on the line in the last minute of extra time. Gyan’s kick rebounded off the and the referee blew the to end the game. Gyan held his nerve to put the first of the penalties away, but that wasn’t enough as his team-mates missed three to put Uruguay through.