Great Britain qualified for the Olympic football quarter-finals after beating Uruguay 1-0 thanks to Daniel Sturridge?s strike in first-half stoppage time. Daniel Sturridge?s goal earned Great Britain another trip to the Millennium Stadium for Saturday?s quarter-final (Picture: Getty) Stuart Pearce?s side will face South Korea in Cardiff on Saturday in the last eight after finishing top of Group A, with Senegal drawing 1-1 with UAE. Sturridge popped up with the winner just as a fairly low-key 45 minutes looked set to end goalless. The lively Joe Allen burst into the area after a superb pass from his Swansea team-mate Scott Sinclair. He then wrong-footed chasing defenders with a clever turn and worked the ball to Sturridge, who poked home from close range. An otherwise quiet first half was punctuated by a few long-range efforts from Uruguay, although there were some encouraging signs that Pearce?s squad, who had only played together once before the tournament, are starting to gel as a team. The often-controversial Craig Bellamy also applied his notoriously fiery spirit in the correct manner, buzzing up and down the touchline threateningly. The game again lacked real bite in the second half but GB were kept on their toes by Luis Suarez, who was only
Source: http://bbc-worldnews.net/2012/08/daniel-sturridge-goal-sinks-uruguay-to-earn-team-gb-game-with-south-korea/
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