James Rodríguez and Carlos Queiroz assume responsibility for the defeat of the Colombian National Team

After the defeat, the Colombian soccer coach, the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz, argued that the 3-0 win that Uruguay gave his team was unfair, this Friday in Barranquilla, for the third date of the South American Qualifiers for Qatar 2022 .

With “The opportunities that we developed deserved a different result”, lamented the strategist, in a virtual press conference.

The coffee growers received two goals from ‘Matador’ Cavani and ‘Pistolero’ Suárez.

“The game plan (broke) when we have to run behind a negative result”Queiroz admitted.

With the first warning, the Portuguese took a risk: he took out midfielder Wilmar Barrios through the end of Porto Luis Díaz. But the change only compounded the deficiencies of the Colombians in the defensive phase of the game.

With 15 minutes remaining, the young attacker Darwin Núñez scored the third Uruguayan goal and Queiroz ended up suffering his worst fall since he assumed the technical direction of the coffee team, in February 2019.

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The loss at home to a direct rival meant Colombia to leave the group of four directly classified to Qatar 2022 and fall to sixth place in the table. Uruguay, meanwhile, climbed to the third box.

The Charrúa hope to repeat the good performance next Tuesday when they will host Brazil, which has a perfect score in the qualifying rounds.

“We have to rebound from a loss of three points at home,” Queiroz anticipated ahead of the next game, in which the Colombians will seek to vindicate themselves against Ecuador at the height of Quito.

For his part, the star of the Colombian soccer team James Rodríguez, without complexes assumed the historic defeat that Uruguay gave them and only managed to say that his team failed.

The captain of the eleven coffee, who went unnoticed in the worst presentation that the team has had under the Portuguese era Carlos Queiroz, interpreted the result as a “tough defeat”.

“We must take responsibility. We are already great and we know how to assume it “, said the attacker of the English Everton to the Caracol Channel. The light blue He had never achieved a victory in Barranquilla and he took it out in a big way.

Those led by Queiroz looked much inferior to a rival who had just lost to Ecuador at the height of Quito (4-2), and who surprisingly found revenge in Barranquilla.

“The first two goals were our fault and that’s it. I believe that we must assume responsibilities and see where we have failed today, “said the Colombian ’10’.

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