Uruguay goes on to semis

It took 120 minutes and a set of PKs, but Uruguay leave Ghana on the outside looking in and head into the semi-finals against the Netherlands.

A most dramatic finish to the end of the second half of overtime, with a free-kick Ghana should not have been awarded in the first place. After a confusing series of shots in which Appiah finds himself offsides though the linesman does not see it, Ghana's final shot makes it past the keeper and a defender only to be blocked by Luis Suarez on the line with his hands.

Suarez of course saw a red card and Ghana's A. Gyan took the penalty kick, at the end of two hours of play, only to hit the crossbar.

Uruguay took their penalty kick first and both teams scored their first two PKs. Uruguay scored their third and Ghana missed. Both Uruguay and Ghana missed their fourth, and Washington Sebastian "El Loco" Abreu converted Uruguay's fifth penalty kick to send Uruguay to the semis.

Tomorrow's games:

Argentina v. Germany
Paraguay v. Spain

I hope Germany and Paraguay win. I'd love to have Germany and Holland in the finals, but for a four-way bet made at work I picked Germany to win the World Cup. But if Holland wins, well that's okay too, no one picked Holland and I had a hard choice in picking between the two.