Egypt faced off against Uruguay in their opening game of the FIFA World Cup 2018 on Friday and despite a brave performance, went down fighting to the South Americans as Jose Giminez scored the only goal of the match in the 89th minute. The Pharaohs opted to start without the recently-recovered Mohamed Salah and put in a fine shift in defence as they almost kept a clean sheet till the very end against an attack consisting of Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani.