05 June, 2017
Substitute goalkeeper Keiren Westwood made a good save from Cristian Stuani while McClean and Murphy both had chances for Ireland.
Jonathan Walters, Cyrus Christie and James McClean were all on the scoresheet as Ireland bounced back to their defeat at the hands of Mexico on Friday against a Uruguay side which included Edinson Cavani - albeit for only 13 minutes until he was forced off with an injury.
With a solid friendly win now under the belt, the main theme amongst Ireland fans following the game was one of confidence going into Sunday's key qualifier at the Aviva. It's nice to win against Uruguay, but everything is just preparation mentally and physically for the game on Sunday.
"I only trained a couple of days this week leading into these games which was tough leading the game but I put it to the back of my mind and focused on trying to perform and ultimately get a win and thankfully we got a win tonight".
"I was just delighted with it, I managed to get it out from under my feet and I hit the target but disappointed with the miss a few minutes later from two yards. But we had some players injured and new players in the team and we are expecting better results in the future, in August and so on".
The miss did not prove costly as Christie did put Ireland back in front on 51 minutes with his second worldwide goal.
Jonathan Walters' 13th senior worldwide goal on a night when he wore the captain's armband was one he will remembers for some time.
Harry Arter won possession high up the pitch and the ball was worked to Christie who cut inside and curled a left-foot shot beyond Conde.
Uruguay must hope to muster more enthusiasm for their midweek trip to Italy than they showed here and Gimenez endured a more forgettable involvement in the 77th minute - diving in desperately and unable to halt McClean on the end of Daryl Murphy's thoughball, with the West Brom winger streaming clear to lash home across Conde.
