Team Great Britain Are Through

Stu­art Pearce

Team Great Bri­tain man­aged to edge out Uruguay by 1–0 in front of a 70,000 crowd at Mil­len­nium Sta­dium in Cardiff on Wed­nes­day even­ing thanks to a close range goal from Chelsea fron­trun­ner Daniel Stur­ridge in first half stop­page time. As a res­ult of the win Stu­art Pearce´s Great Bri­tain side are through to the Olympic Quarter Finals.

Team Great Bri­tain com­pletely dom­in­ated the open­ing forty five minutes yes­ter­day with the some­what reluct­ant South Amer­ican side largely con­tent to sit back in their own half of the pitch. The Great Bri­tain play­ers even­tu­ally took the lead when Swansea City mid­fielder Joe Allen crossed the ball for the ever dan­ger­ous Daniel Stur­ridge who tapped home from close range in first period added time. Oscar Tabarez´s plucky Uruguay team tried to get back into the match in the second period but the home defence were very well organ­ised and dis­cip­lined. Cardiff born Craig Bel­lamy once again enjoyed an excep­tional good game for Team Great Bri­tain and the strong run­ning Liv­er­pool and Wales marks­man received a fully deserved ova­tion from the Mil­len­nium Sta­dium faith­ful when he was sub­sti­tuted by Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur flank­man Danny Rose with twelve minutes remain­ing on the referee´s clock. Great Bri­tain will now lock horns with South Korea in the Olympic Quarter Finals at the Mil­len­nium Sta­dium this Sat­urday, as win­ners of their group. Great Bri­tain Team: Jack But­land, Neil Taylor, Ryan Ber­trand, Steven Caulker, Joe Allen, Aaron Ram­sey, Micah Richards, Tom Clev­er­ley, Scott Sin­clair, Daniel Stur­ridge, Craig Bellamy.

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