The rules are clearly lacking though. Fair enough, take out the last defender, he had a chance on goal, the infraction deals the team out another 'chance'.
A goal that was an utterly sure thing but was illegally batted away from the line should be met with an awarded goal, not merely a chance to try and get it via a penalty. It might be in the rules but it's clearly not fair recompense for what was clearly the winning goal. There was no 'might' about the final resting place of that ball had he not illegally handled it.
It is cheating.
cheating(a): violating accepted standards or rules
Ghana could beat them, they effectively did, had Uruguay not cheated to prevent the winning goal.
...its just getting tiring when people keep bringing it up as its done and over with...some teams cheat and get lucky to win...some cheat and they dont win but to me the ghana game was the right result because lets be honest...ghana should have had Pantsil sent off along with a penalty in regulation time then that Suarez handball...that freekick should have never been given as the guy tripped up over himself...so the ref was quite gifting towards the Ghanians if you think about it....Uruguay had every right to be miffed if they had been beaten.
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