Uruguay v Saudi Arabia, 20 June 2018

Kick-off: 6.00pm local Uruguay v Saudi Arabia was Match 18 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Clement Turpin (France) Assistant Referee 1: Nicolas Danos (France) Assistant Referee 2: Cyril Gringore (France) Fourth Official: John Pitti (Panama) Reserve AR: Gabriel Victoria (Panama) VAR: Szymon Marchiniak (Poland) Still with their final round of group games to be played, this result confirmed that Uruguay and hosts Russia had qualified for the round of 16. It also confirmed that Saudi Arabia and Egypt were eliminated. On his 100th international appearance, Luis Suárez became the first Uruguay player to score at three World Cup finals (also 2010 and 2014). Uruguay had now won their first two games of a World Cup finals for the first time since 1954. Saudi Arabia had now lost 11 of their 15 games at the World Cup finals (won two, both in 1994) and failed to score in the last four.