Marcelo Bielsa’s Celeste drew goalless with Dorival Junior’s Scratch in Las Vegas and defined the qualification for the semis on penalties. The winner will play the semi against Colombia.

Uruguay and Brazil drew goalless in a closely contested match at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas for the quarterfinals of the 2024 Copa América in the United States and had to define the qualifier through penalties, where the Celeste, who played With ten just over a quarter of an hour due to the expulsion of Nahitan Nández, they won 4-2 and will face Colombia, who eliminated Panama earlier by a goal.

The duel was very even, with many infractions and few goals scored. The clearest of Marcelo Bielsa’s was on the head of Darwin Núñez, who was left alone in the area after a cross from the right but his shot went over the crossbar. Immediately, Raphinha was the most dangerous of Dorival Júnior’s men, but he wasted a one-on-one that Sergio Rochet deflected well. He also had a chance against Endrick, but he didn’t finish.

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In the complement there was little football and many fouls. At 28 minutes, Nahitan Nández went hard against Rodrygo Goes and earned the yellow card, but the VAR called the referee Darío Herrera who, after reviewing it, decided to change the warning to expulsion and left those of Loco with one less. However, they were able to withstand the result and went to penalties.

In the definition from twelve steps, the figure of Sergio Rochet emerged, who saved the first one from Eder Militao, Douglas Luiz also missed, crashing his shot into the post and, despite the fact that Alisson stopped a shot from José María Giménez, Federico Valverde, Rorigo Bentancur, Giorgian de Arrascaeta and Manuel Ugarte did not fail and Uruguay qualified for the semifinals of the Copa América by eliminating Brazil. They will face Colombia on Wednesday from 9:00 p.m. in North Carolina.