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Cavani stars for Uruguay in the World Cup

June 30, 2018 7:51 pm

Edinson Cavani scored two superb goals as Uruguay beat Portugal 2-1 to set up a World Cup quarter-final meeting with France.

Defeat for the European champions finished Cristiano Ronaldo’s hopes of success in Russia just hours after Lionel Messi and Argentina were knocked out, beaten 4-3 by France.

Pepe managed to get the only goal for the Portuguese in the game.

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In the other match played earlier, France beat Argentina 4-3 in the last 16 round this morning.

Uruguay meets France in the quarter-final at 2am next Saturday.

Meanwhile in the matches tomorrow, Spain plays Russia at 2am while at 6am Croatia takes on Denmark and you can watch both the matches live on FBC TV.