Defender Diego Godin scored a dramatic winner nine minutes from time to send Uruguay through to the World Cup last 16 with a 1-0 win over Italy on Tuesday which sent the four-times champions home.
The Italian players were still complaining to the referee after Uruguay striker Luis Suarez appeared to bite Giorgio Chiellini shortly before Godin rose to head in the winner.
“It was ridiculous not to send Suarez off,” Chiellini told Rai TV.
“It is clear, clear-cut and then there was the obvious dive afterwards because he knew very well that he did something that he shouldn’t have done.”
The match was sparked into life just before the hour mark when Italy’s Marchisio was shown a straight red card for a foul on Egidio Arevalo Rios. Before the red card, it looked like Italy would succeed to progress along with group winners Costa Rica.
After 81 minutes, though, Godin rose above a scrum of players in the Italy box to power the ball into the net off his head and shoulder and give the Uruguayans a lead they never relinquished.
Italy, who had sat back in numbers before Marchisio’s dismissal, poured forward to try to rescue the situation but Andrea Pirlo’s 85th-minute free kick was their best chance and Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera swept it around the post.
