0-1 | Yerry Mina’s mistake has Uruguay winning

The Roberto Meléndez Metropolitan Stadium in Barranquilla, will be the stage that will host the duel between Colombia and Uruguay. From 3:30 pm. the ‘tricolor’ team will seek the top of the standings after Argentina’s draw and awaiting the result of Brazil against Venezuela. The game can be followed by Caracol Televisión, by Blu Radio and Caracol Radio. The referee will be Fernando Rapallini and his assistants Juan Belatti and Diego Bonfa. In the VAR will be the Peruvians Diego Haro and Víctor Carrillo. The fourth official will be Facundo Tello, also from Argentina

The Colombia selection, who started his way thrashing like local to Venezuela and then matching with Chile as a visitor, have the chance to catch up with Argentina, pointer in the absence of the match of Brazil against Venezuela in Sao Paulo.

Those led by Carlos Queiroz they will not be able to have a history like Radamel Falcao Garcia. The ‘Tigre’, who was key in the match on date 2, suffered a right leg injury during training with Galatasaray from Turkey. In addition, full-backs Santiago Arias and Stefan Medina and River striker Rafael Santos Borré are out due to injury after testing positive for COVID-19.

The defender Dávinson SánchezFor his part, he will miss Uruguay because his wife was about to give birth and was unable to travel with her companions; although I would say present the Tuesday versus Ecuador. In return, the local they will have the turn of their figure, goalkeeper David Ospina, who missed the first two meetings.

Queiroz prior to the duel said: “It is a critical match with Uruguay, the second team in South America, twice world champion and we have to know that we are facing a very good team, with a lot of experience, one of the best in the world.”

The selection of Uruguay, that beat Chile and fell with Ecuador in QuitoThey will also have some weight losses, such as that of Real Madrid midfielder Federico Valverde. The other absences will be goalkeeper Martín Silva, defender Sebastián Coates and forward Maxi Gömez. The good news is that they will have Luis Suárez and Edinson Cavani in their offense again.

Colombia faces the climate phenomenon of ‘La Niña’, so it is expected that at the time of the game the rain will be the protagonist. According to the forecast of Ideam, the probability of rain over the capital of the Atlantic is 83%, in addition there will be a temperature of 25.1 degrees centigrade.

Before the game, the weather was one of the factors most debated by the protagonists. Uruguay’s coach, Oscar Washington Tabárez, he assured that it was them who were most affected by the high temperatures of Barranquilla, “The high temperature and humidity that Colombia has adopted as a fixed venue is an advantage in favor of the rival team that speculates on this and tries to form the game based on the difficulty that teams that are not used to this may have, such as the our case ”.

For his part, Luis Fernando Muriel, Colombian forward, downplayed the issue of weather, “The truth is that few players act in a climate like Barranquilla’s. It’s more about the motivation for the game. “

ALIGNMENTS

Colombia: David Ospina; Jeison Murillo, Yerry Mina, Johan Mojica; Wilmar Barrios, Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, Jefferson Lerma; James Rodríguez Matheus Uribe; Luis Fernando Muriel and Duván Zapata.

DT: Carlos Queiroz.

Uruguay: Martín Campaña; Martín Cáceres, José María Giménez, Diego Godín, Matías Viña; Nahitan Nández, Lucas Torreira, Rodrigo Bentancur, Nicolás de la Cruz; Luis Suárez and Darwin Núñez.

DT: Oscar Washington Tabárez.

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