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After playing the double knockout date with the Colombian National Team, James Rodríguez and Yerry Mina have already landed in England to play the famous Merseyside derby against their backyard rival, Liverpool.
In addition to gambling the honor in the city’s classic, Everton and Liverpool arrive at date five of the Premier League as two strong candidates to stay with the leadership of the tournament, so the match will be a meeting that will give more than three points . Everton is the current leader of the competition with four games played and four won, while Liverpool comes with 3 wins in 4 games played.
The ‘Toffees’ have their eyes on the two Colombians on the squad: James Rodríguez and Yerry Mina. On the one hand, the creative midfielder is the great figure of the team, so his performance will be vital for the club to achieve victory, James has three goals and two assists in the championship, while Yerry Mina has one goal and it is one. of the fixed ones in the back; both players are one of the cards Carlo Ancelotti has to open or increase the score at Goodison Park.
With this panorama, Colombians will have a difficult challenge against Jurguen Klopp’s team in terms of goals, because throughout history, only two Colombians have scored against Liverpool in the Premier League, a fact that, in addition to being a statistic , creates a kind of appeal for the game that can be seen this Saturday from 6:30 am.
Faustino Asprilla (1996 and 1997)
The first coffee grower to score a goal for Liverpool was Faustino Asprilla in 1996 with the Newcastle shirt. On April 3 of that year, the ‘tino’ scored the ‘magracas’ second goal, in the 4-3 defeat suffered at Anfield. Almost a year later, the Colombian attacker again scored against the ‘reds’ in defeat, again, 4-3 on the same stage. Faustino scored the second goal for his team.
Hugo Rodallega (2010)
Like the ‘tino’, Hugo Rodallega scored two goals against Liverpool during his stay in England. The first was with Wigan in 2010, in a game in which the team led by Roberto Martínez at that time won 1-0. That same year, ‘Hugol’ repeated the dose to the ‘Reds, and scored Wigan’s goal in a 1-1 draw with Liverpool.
* Teófilo Gutiérrez (2010)
Although Teófilo Gutiérrez has not played in a Premier League team, the striker who currently plays for Junior de Barranquilla is another of the Colombians who has managed to mark Liverpool in history. ‘Teo’, in 2010, playing with Trabzonspor in Turkey, he faced the ‘reds’ in the Europa League, and it was in that competition that he got the goal. He marked the partial tie for his team, which at the end of the bracket ended up losing.
