South Africa coach Carlos Alberto Parreira slammed referee Massimo Busacca after seeing Bafana Bafana's hopes of making the last 16 of the World Cup suffer a blow with a 3-0 defeat to Uruguay.

Uruguay took a first-half lead through Diego Forlan, who then doubled his side's advantage from the penalty spot 10 minutes from time after an incident which saw home goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune sent off. Alvaro Pereira then wrapped up the victory for Uruguay with a third goal in stoppage time.

"I haven't seen it (the red card incident) properly because there were some players in the way, (but) the players are really annoyed, very angry and very disappointed in the referee," said Parreira.