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JAMES ACKAH

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HOW GHANA MAY GO TO THE ROUND OF 16 WITHOUT DEFEATING URUGUAY.

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At the 2022 FIFA World Cup, on Friday, December 2, at the Al Janoub Stadium, Ghana will play Uruguay in the decisive final Group H match.

Both nations need to win to keep their positions in the group. However, a tie would result in Uruguay's departure.

South Korea and Uruguay each have a point, however, South Korea is placed third in the group on the basis of goal differential over Uruguay. Portugal, who has already qualified, topped the group with 6 points. Ghana is in second place with 3.

Ghana seems to be the favorite to take the second spot on the table and advance.

Although it becomes difficult, the Black stars wouldn't necessarily need to win.

CRITICAL THINKING MODE (Pull out your calculator Mode)

Given that the black stars fail to beat Uruguay and settle for a draw, it leaves the team’s destiny for Portugal.

In such a situation, it means Portugal, even if they would lose against South Korea, they should not lose by a two-goal margin.

 Ghana has scored five goals and conceded five, thus with zero goal difference. Whereas South Korea has a deficit of one goal after scoring two and conceding three.

This means that Korea would have to beat Portugal by at least a two-goal margin, hoping that Ghana will lose or draw against Uruguay.

Uruguay is two goals behind and has not yet scored. This means that even though Korea would prefer them to win, Uruguay will advance if they triumph by a score of three goals while Korea loses against Portugal by a score of two.

Only by defeating Uruguay and handing the South Americans their first group stage exit since 2022 did Ghana manage to escape the aforementioned scenarios.

This would be the ideal way for Ghana to exact justice on Uruguay for the horrific quarterfinal elimination in 2010.

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