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The national team must demonstrate against Ecuador, in Quito, that the defeat against Uruguay is behind them and that they can be added as a visitor.
On one side Gustavo Alfaro and his concern about COVID-19 after the positives of Énner Valencia, Alan Franco and Diego Palacios, in principle, and later with the adverse results of Moisés Corozo, José Cifuentes and Mario Pineida.
So, even though the Argentine has said that he did not plan to summon men from the local tournament, the virus forced him to call Jordi Alcívar, José Cevallos and Jacob Murillo to have the necessary payroll for today’s duel between Ecuador and Colombia in Quito.
Yes, Alfaro spoke of defensive inattention, but the main thing in the last hours was the health of the group, taking care of himself and being strict with the protocols to prevent the outbreak from increasing.
On the other, Carlos Queiroz who did not want to refer fully to his own mistakes, but to the mistakes of the referee in a kind of distraction that is usually as valid as having the frankness to recognize how badly Colombia acted against Uruguay. “He did not whistle a penalty in favor and he did another that was not so clear. That is what makes me angry ”.
Alfaro is calmer because of the support that the positive results give him, although the other positives have him restless and moving chips, while Queiroz is going through a small crisis with a team that does not seem retentive with respect to what he wants on the court. or at least what he imagines on his board.
Although there is no evidence of an incessant state of alarm, in the national team there is caution and prudence to avoid a bigger disaster, and that at the end of this double date it can be said that three points were obtained and play an account in the imaginary and in the calculations that Uruguay was won and lost with Ecuador, even if reality is the other way around.
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To have a point of reference, and perhaps a comparison, it is good to remember that in the first three days on the way to the World Cup in Brazil, Colombia had four units (in two games, because it rested on the opening date), and for Russia , at the same height, the score was the same.
The funny thing is that on the fourth date of both qualifiers (2014 and 2018) he lost to Argentina in Barranquilla, so the national team could not add, but later the tickets to the world championships were achieved. And if we do not go to the most recent visits to Ecuador, in the last qualifier Colombia won 2-0 (goals by James Rodríguez and Juan Guillermo Cuadrado) and in the previous one they fell 1-0 (annotation by Christian Benítez, who died in 2013).
Further behind are the goalless equality for South Africa 2010, the 2-1 defeat en route to Germany 2006, a 0-0 tie for Korea and Japan 2002, and the 1-0 qualifying win over France 1998, by Name the most recent ones (for England 1966 Ecuador won 2-0, there was a 1-1 for Germany 1974 and another 0-0 for Italy 1990).
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In other words, out of nine games in the neighboring country, the national team has obtained 37% of the points played, so it has not done as well as it is believed. Above the numbers and the antecedents, it is clear that Colombia will have to rely more on work than on talent, avoid the anxiety that was seen in Barranquilla and that was born out of despair of an early goal (in other words, not mark you in the initial minutes), and create the time when there is not so that your last game of 2020 is more than decent.
Queiroz needs to target the collective heart to regain confidence, in addition to being consistent in terms of names, schemes and operations and thus, with that mix, contain a complicated rival and make what happened with Uruguay in the Metropolitan a painful anecdote, but ultimately a statistic for the future.
By: Camilo Amaya
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