The one this Friday against Uruguay was for the Colombia National Team a presentation that should serve to find solutions, before the trip to Quito to face Ecuador for the fourth date of the Qatar 2022 World Cup Qualifiers.
A historian of our football, Willington Ortiz, spoke with FUTBOLRED about the 0-3 defeat in Barranquilla with the celestial team, which leaves Colombia in the sixth box with 4 points.
Colombia played badly, of the games that had been seen, this is the one that played the worst, he did it with three flyers without much exit, because Lerma and Uribe did not come out much, Barrios is recovery. He had to have put players to attack Uruguay more, Colombia had few scoring options, Uruguay was calm because he got the goal in the 5 minutes and from there to there they would handle the process of the match and they did well with their two lines of four corticos ”.
Regarding the individual mistakes that caused the visitor’s goals, he said that “we cannot make those mistakes because they charge you for them, a player who has experience if you make mistakes near the area does not forgive you, Mina always had to go out with the ball played and I couldn’t get it out clean, I had to get it out of one, the problem is that if you have three recovery shuttlecocks, it costs more for the one to come out with the ball ”.
Regarding the wrong decisions of coach Carlos Queiroz, it was clear: “He was not right even at the beginning, the other games he had done well, but in this one nothing came out. In this game he was totally wrong, he could have rethought, remove Muriel, include a side and raise Cuadrado. For example, Lerma had been playing and he was terrible ”.
Regarding whether players of other characteristics are lacking in the squad, the ‘old Willi’ pointed out: “The formation of the line-up was wrong, in Italy they put Cuadrado as the leading marker because there they think first about the defensive aspect, but if you have to go To win a game you cannot put him on the side because you are taking him away from the possibility of creating goal options. He led three markers, Muñoz, Orejuela and also Tesillo, but the one who plays as a midfielder or forward (Cuadrado) places him as a marker. He summoned the normal full-backs and did not put them, while Cuadrado helps much more as a right wing or tip, then he had to make changes to put Diaz because the team did not reach or overflow because the forwards did not get the ball. I don’t see the players that the National Team needs. To name one, Quintero hasn’t played for a long time ”.
Regarding what he expects from the Portuguese coach in Tuesday’s commitment, “I don’t think he will change because there he becomes strong, the difficulty is when he has to go out to propose, when he has to defend he has no problem, I think to raise the party in Ecuador has no problem. I imagine that he puts Tesillo and one that is a right marker, as well as two lines of four. The problem is when you have to propose to win the games. “
However, ‘Willi’ assures that there were men to unbalance Uruguay, which in the end did not happen: “He called them, on the left he has Díaz, on the right he has Cuadrado, but when he has to assemble the teams he does not put them If James is placed on the right there, he loses, if he puts him in the middle with brand freedoms the guy pays, James doesn’t even weigh there ”.
Regarding the criticism that Queiroz has received for the lack of reaction in the variants, he said that “it is not that he is confused, but that his way of playing is different and that is how he poses things. This is not going to reach us because home games have to be proposed to win them, because if those teams come prepared like Uruguay. Paraguay is also strong, well worked, and to win it is going to be difficult, orderly defending itself well.
Ortiz finished off with the analysis of what is coming for Colombia in some qualifiers that have 15 days pending: “He lost at home with a direct rival like Uruguay, with which, as against Chile, we must look for a place. Doing the math, Brazil and Argentina are classified because they make their points, there are five places and those who are to beat them are Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay and Venezuela ”.
Marco Antonio Garcés
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
In twitter: @marquitosgarces
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