{"id":416356,"date":"2026-06-16T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=416356"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:23:37","slug":"uruguay-held-to-1-1-draw-by-saudi-arabia-in-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/uruguay-held-to-1-1-draw-by-saudi-arabia-in-world-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay held to 1-1 draw by Saudi Arabia in World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIAMI, June 15 : Saudi Arabia and Uruguay played out a 1-1 draw in their Group H&nbsp;World Cup opener on Monday after Abdulelah Al Amri&#8217;s opener for the Gulf nation was cancelled out by Maxi Araujo in a game where both sides profited from goalkeeping errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first half was dominated by Uruguay but Saudi Arabia took the lead against the run of play in the 41st minute when Fernando Muslera made a costly error on a set-piece, parrying the ball into the path of Al Amri who poked the ball past the veteran keeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The majority of the second period was played in Saudi Arabia&#8217;s half as Uruguay frantically searched for an equaliser and their persistence paid off when goalkeeper Mohammed Al Owais also made an error when a save fell nicely for Araujo to fire home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The draw leaves Group H finely poised after the first round of games following Spain&#8217;s draw with Cape Verde earlier on Monday, with all four teams on one point each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI, June 15 : Saudi Arabia and Uruguay played out a 1-1 draw in their Group H&nbsp;World Cup opener on Monday after Abdulelah Al Amri&#8217;s opener for the Gulf nation was cancelled out by Maxi Araujo in a game where both sides profited from goalkeeping errors. The first half was dominated by Uruguay but Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416357,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416356\/revisions\/416357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}