Venezuela it is a mini fly. Minimum weight. Chile is something else: a middleweight opponent, with the same pounds as Colombia on the football scale of the South American tie for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The obvious greater difficulty that this Tuesday’s game represents for the National Team, more with the condition of being a visitor, against a tougher, dangerous, talented and stronger team, will it cause changes in the line-up of coach Carlos Queiroz?
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In football it is repeated like a mantra that the winning team does not change, despite the fashion of the much vaunted one-off ‘rotations’ to try to take advantage of weaknesses and counteract the specific strengths of the rival. It is true that it is necessary to redouble alerts and markings on the still ball against, reinforce doubling on the bands and that Vidal you have to get in the way from the start, perhaps with the very Zapata.
Colombia defeated with extreme comfort 3-0 to Venezuela, with an alignment that in general lines did not play together for almost a year. The game lasted just 25 minutes, until 2-0. The rest was training. With the lack of games by the pandemic and with the solidity shown (obviously, against a minimal Venezuela), since the logical thing is to give continuity to the team that won with sufficiency and had minutes of play. Arias is absent due to his terrible ankle and fibula injury. Medina played from minute 12, and it was presumed since before the misfortune of Arias which would be the owner in Chile.
Thus, repeating the same team seems the most logical thing to do. Defense is the sung. The midfield is strong, brave, handsome and has the men (Lerma and Cuadrado) for dubbing and backing in the bands, areas where Chile looks strong and dangerous. In addition, the same Cuadrado and Lerma give offensive output. And the attack is untouchable, despite the fact that many fans insist on Falcao as well as Zapata’s companion.
In Chile, meanwhile, the press speaks of three possible changes with respect to the team that lost 2-1 against Uruguay in Montevideo. Mauricio Isla would be the right-back (a locomotive for that ‘railway’), with which the entire defense would be disarranged, since Paulo Díaz would run to the center of the rear next to Sierralta, who in turn would move to Sebastian Vargas to the left side. maybe Lorenzo Reyes replace Claudio Baeza in midfield, and it is speculated that Pedro Fuenzalida play as a third attacker and not as a midfielder.
Chile is an obvious challenge that is more demanding, but that does not mean that it is necessary to square the circle of training. Team that wins does not change: I say it, as they say in football.
Meluk tells him …
GABRIEL MELUK
SPORTS Editor
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