Egypt v Uruguay, 15 June 2018

Kick-off: 5.00pm local Egypt v Uruguay was Match 2 of the FIFA World Cup 2018. The refereeing team was: Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands) Assistant Referee 1: Sander van Roekel (Netherlands) Assistant Referee 2: Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands) Fourth Official: Milorad Mazic (Serbia) Reserve AR: Milovan Ristic (Serbia) VAR: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands) Uruguay won their opening game of a World Cup finals for the first time since 1970 (versus Israel in Puebla). They had not won their opening match at their last six World Cup tournaments. Uruguay had now won each of their last three World Cup group stage games with a goal scored in the last ten minutes. This was Egypt’s first game in the World Cup finals since the lost 1-0 against England on 21 June 1990 in Cagliari. José Giménez's goal was Uruguay’s latest winning goal in a World Cup finals game since Daniel Fonseca against South Korea in 1990 in the second minute of added time. Only Honduras (nine), Bolivia (six), New Zealand (six) and El Salvador (six) had now played more games in the World Cup finals without a win than Egypt (played five, lost three). Uruguay’s Oscar Tabarez became the fifth manager to take charge of the same country at four different World Cup finals (1990, 2010, 2014 and 2018) after Walter Winterbottom (England), Josef Herberger (Germany), Helmut Schon (Germany) and Lajos Bartori (Hungary).