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Hero Hermoza sends Peru through

Peru overcame Tajikistan 5-4 in a typically nailbiting penalty shoot-out to take their place in the last eight at Korea 2007. The hero of the hour was shot-stopper Eder Hermoza, who saved the Tajiks' first spot-kick before Irven Avila coolly finished the job off with the decisive penalty.As the rain teemed down in Suwon, it was the South Americans who adapted more quickly to the soggy pitch, ...