The Group H Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay saw another draw on a day where all four games ended with the points shared. And not for the first time, or probably the last time this World Cup, a team has dominated but failed to land the knockout blow. In fact Uruguay, whose stats below highlight the dominance, had to come from behind against Saudi Arabia who always start World Cup well, having beaten eventual winners Argentina in the first game. Not the same result today, nor will their first match opponent Uruguay win the World Cup liek last time.
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This Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay Group H match is a World Cup purists match, as no normal sports fans would get excited about Saudi Arabia v Uruguay in anything. Although jousting would be funny for a while. Uruguay better be careful as Saudi Arabia beat Argentina in their first match of the last World Cup, although Argentina went on to win the whole thing, so maybe Uruguay would take a first game loss and title in the end. None of the scenarios seem likely this time around, but they’re all playing for second here with Spain in the group.
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STATS SUMMARY
RATINGS
The Gurgler’s in-house Ratings system based on H2H stats, World Cup stats, recent records, qualifying and past World Cup performance is here to make choosing the winner easier, or have something to blame.
| Saudi Arabia | 36.2% | Uruguay | 63.8% |
BARELY INTERESTING STATS
People are talking up Ecuador as a dark horse after South American qualifying but Uruguay in equal third were only one point behind, had one better figure for goal difference, scoring and conceding more than Ecuador. So Uruguay aren’t that far behind.
Since 1966, Uruguay are W2 D5 L3 for opening World Cup games.
Saudi Arabia did beat Argentina in their opening match last season, but prior to that their record is D1 L4, including a 5-0 loss to hosts Russia in 2018 and 8-0 in 2002.
Saudi Arabia are W1 L1 v South American nations at the World Cup. Both discussed earlier.
Uruguay are W3 D1 v Asian nations at the World Cup.
Uruguay have a 59% win record v Asian nations all time while Saudi Arabia have a 7% win rate v South American sides.
MATCH PREDICTION
SAUDI ARABIA 0 URUGUAY 1
