After a pulsating 120 minutes which ended 3-3 both sides had no alternative than to decide their game on mandatory penalty kicks. Spain top scorer, Isco converted his kick to give his team a 7-5 victory after Uruguay had lost two kicks.
Thus like in the first day of the quarter-finals that one of the matches, between Colombia and Turkey was concluded with the shootouts. The match was the first game of the day same as this encounter.
Ten man Uruguay tried to hold on but could not measure up in the penalties they were thought to be expert following their coach bioast. They however slotted home the opener in the 10 minutes through Andrian Luna shot that was deflected into the net, before Spain immediately secured the equalizer seven minutes after when Isco converted a penalty after a foul charge by a Turkish defender, it was the tonic the Spaniards needed to launch their en mass attack that gave them edge over their resilient opponents.
Their attacking pressure resulted in another penalty in the 33 minutes that was spurned by S. Roberto thus denying his team an opportunity of going a goal up before the half time mark. However, they kept terrorizing the South Americans, who came out occasionally looking for goals.
On resumption, the Spain youngsters went all out attacking leading to two quick goals by their leading scorer, who scored in the 49th and 50th minute. The game became a little bit slow as Spain tried to brush up their defending, but Gabriel Mezquida netted in the 71 minutes to reduce the tarry by as a lone goal.
Late scorer, Sebastian Gallegos who helped his side to secure the quarter-finals’ ticket against Iran in Calabar came up with another last minutes strike as hen equalized with his team’s third goal in the 84th minute dragging the game into the extra time that was fruitless in terms of goals.