'I didn't miss penalty' - Luis Suarez won't apologise to Ghana

Luis Suarez refused to apologise for his infamous handball in the final minute of extra-time in the 2010 World Cup quarter-final against Ghana, pointing out it wasn't he who missed the resultant penalty.

Uruguay meet Ghana in Friday's Group G finale, with the South American side needing a win to progress to the knockout phase.

It's only the second ever meeting of the two nations, the first being the dramatic quarter-final in Johannesburg in 2010, when Uruguay advanced following a penalty shootout after a controversial conclusion to extra-time.

In a chaotic goalmouth scramble in the dying seconds, with the score at 1-1, Suarez blocked Dominic Adiyiah's header on the goal-line, slapping the ball away with his hands. The ref immediately brandished a red card and awarded a penalty to the Ghanaians.

However, with the final act of the game, Asamoah Gyan slammed the penalty off the crossbar, sending the game to a shootout, in which the Uruguayans prevailed.

Suarez's celebration at the penalty miss, before he marched down the tunnel, were regarded as a further provocation by the Ghanaian supporters.

On Thursday, Suarez fielded questions from Ghanaian journalists, one of whom remarked that many people in Ghana regard him as "the devil himself".

Suarez, however, who answered in English, was unrepentant, pointing out that he might apologise if he had injured someone but saw no reason to say sorry over an offence for which he was punished at the time.

"The first time, I don't apologise for that. I take the handball. But the Ghana player missed the penalty. Not me," Suarez said.

"Maybe I apologise if I injure a player and get a red card.

"But in this situation, I take the red card. The ref said penalty. It's not my fault. Because I didn't miss