Rest of the World: Colombia vs. Venezuela LIVE: referee expelled Darwin Machís but t

The duel between Colombia vs Venezuela It started with some impressions from both teams. Actions were hotly contested on every ball. However, in one of those plays, Santiago Arias went to fight a ball with Darwin Machís, bearing the worst of it.

The referee Guillermo Guerrero charged an infraction in favor of the ‘Cafeteros’ and decided to expel the Venezuelan attacker, to the surprise of himself and his teammates. Seconds later the judge had to go to review the action in the VAR, removing the red from the Granada player.

Colombia vs Venezuela: the preview

The ‘Tricolor’, now under the orders of Carlos Queiroz, dreams of his third consecutive classification to a World Cup after Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018, and starts the dream of Qatar 2022 with some complications in the initial roster that the Portuguese coach gave , due to injuries and risks of contagion.

The first to fall was Yairo Moreno, a player from León de México, who was injured with his club at the end of last week. Instead of the winger, the right-back Santiago Arias, a new Bayer Leverkusen player, was called.

Then the midfielder Víctor Cantillo and forward John Córdoba were summoned, who make up for the absences of Mateus and Uribe and Luis Díaz, both from Porto. This, due to the risk of contagion that could be in the Portuguese team and that put most of its players in quarantine.

For its part, Venezuela will seek its first qualification to a World Cup, to which in fact it has already been close in previous processes. However, the ‘Vinotinto’ also faces a hard loss, that of Salomón Rondón, who this Monday was confirmed that he will not be able to join his team.

The Dalian Pro, from China, did not want to loan the player to the Venezuelan national team. His club refused to give him up due to the protocols established in South American football as a result of the pandemic.

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