International friendlies a few days before the start of the season aren’t usually anything to get excited about, but Diego Forlan and Keisuke Honda obviously hadn’t read the script.
Both Forlan and Honda scored very nice free-kicks indeed during a 4-2 friendly encounter between the sides in Rifu earlier today, a game in which Luis Suarez put his ‘will he stay or will he go’ saga behind him to get on the scoresheet.
Uruguay opened up a 3-1 lead before the hosts made the scoreline look a bit more respectable with goals from Shinji Kagawa and Honda either side of an Alvaro Gonzalez effort for the visitors.
Having opened the scoring, Forlan added his and Uruguay’s second with a lovely curling free-kick into the bottom corner – on the side the goalkeeper was meant to be guarding – just short of the half-hour mark…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJNscoJha_c
…while Honda bent a delicious left-footed effort into the top corner for the final goal of the night…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y69q-BmV7UY#at=19
If Robbie Brady wants to do likewise in Cardiff tonight we certainly won’t complain.
Hat-tip: 101 Great Goals
