Argentina may be more fancied to win the tournament, Chile are more exciting and Brazil have more supporters but there is no South American team playing quite as well as Uruguay, a nation of 3.5 million that has made no sort of impact in a World Cup since 1970. Having conceded early when Jung Sung-ryong went for a teasing, low cross from Diego Forlan and missed allowing Luis Suarez to open the scoring, the Koreans nevertheless fought back bravely, through the Monaco forward, Park Chu-young, who struck the frame of the goal with one superb free-kick and then created the equaliser for Lee Chung-yong with another. It was the first goal Uruguay had conceded in a World Cup in which Forlan and Suarez are proving one of the star performers. Suarez’s winner, a beautifully curling shot from 25 yards, was proof the Jabulani can be struck clinically and set up a quarter-final with Ghana that would see one of two outsiders reach the semi-finals.