The second match of the tournament was a 0-0 stalemate between Uruguay and France, but a clear win for Arévalo who played a full 90 to his opponents failure to make the pitch.
Despite BBC commentator Guy Mowbray pronouncing his name throughout as Arevalio (it may well meant to be pronounced like that, but it sounded ridiculous), like he was the name of an olive oil based spread from a budget supermarket, alongside also claiming other players were him (the BBC coverage was dreadful, worst mistake claiming the Uruguayans were playing a flat back four... no you dummies they played a three man defence!). I went into the match mistakenly thinking he was a winger - big mistake. He was very much a tenacious, fiery and short holding midfielder, striking in white boots and with a passion for a tackle. Constant battles with Abou Diaby were a theme of the match, and one that in general he won. The ball was rarely behind him during the match - for me it was an extremely impressive performance and in spite of our original belief that he would not start, I'd expect him to play most of the remaining group games after that.
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