James Rodríguez, Jefferson Lerma and Davinson Sánchez ‘in the center of the Colombian dressing room in the punch-up’

The English trio James Rodríguez, Jefferson Lerma and Davinson Sánchez are allegedly in the center of a ‘punch’ in the Colombian national team after a dispute in the dressing room.

Tempers are believed to have flared among the team after a home loss to Uruguay on Friday in a World Cup qualifier.

According to The Firefly, the incident saw ‘a player grabbed by the throat’ after the 3-0 loss in Barranquilla. Everton’s Rodriguez and Bournemouth’s Lerma played the full 90 minutes, but Tottenham defender Sanchez was not selected.

Everton star James Rodríguez is believed to be involved in a locker room raid in Colombia

Bournemouth’s Jefferson Lerma (left) and Tottenham’s Hotspur Davinson Sánchez are also linked to the raid that is believed to have occurred after a loss to Uruguay.

Lerma was booked during the match in a game in which Rodríguez’s Toffees teammate Yerry Mina was sent off at the last minute when goals from Edinson Cavani, Luis Suárez and Manchester United substitute Darwin Núñez caused him to visitors will take all three points.

The locker room incident is believed to be due to Colombian players being unhappy with coach Carlos Queiroz for giving in to the needs of Rodriguez, who is widely regarded as the talisman and key figure in the national configuration.

However, Rodríguez is also unhappy that Queiroz has lost the captaincy due to Uruguay’s chaotic defeat to former Arsenal goalkeeper David Ospina.

The players are allegedly upset by the fact that manager Carlos Queiroz (right) pleases Rodríguez

But the Everton talisman is unhappy to lose the captaincy in the defeat of Uruguay.

Sánchez, who is a regular starter in Tottenham Hotspur’s defense, and Lerma, who plays in midfield for Bournemouth, are believed to be heavily involved in the incident that now casts Queiroz’s position in question.

Colombia, which reached the round of 16 of the World Cup in Russia two years ago before being eliminated by England on penalties, has had a bad start to the campaign to qualify for Qatar 2022, having only beaten Venezuela in its first four qualifying matches. .

Following the loss to Uruguay they suffered a humiliating 6-1 defeat in Ecuador, where Rodríguez, who scored, was restored as captain and appeared alongside Sánchez and Lerma, with the latter departing as a substitute in the second half.

With the captaincy restored, Rodríguez scored from the penalty spot, but his Colombian team still fell 6-1 in Ecuador on Wednesday

Now the pressure is increasing on Queiroz after a bad start in qualifying for the World Cup

Colombia occupies the seventh place in the table with four points in a system in which the first four advance to the final and the fifth classified advances to the play-off.

Queiroz, a former assistant to Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United and a former Real Madrid manager, took over the Colombia team in February 2019.

He had previously spent eight years and 100 games as coach of Iran, whom he guided to back-to-back World Cups in 2014 and 2018.