The sports press of the world discusses what happened this Thursday, October 14 in the match between Colombia and Ecuador for the 12th date of the World Cup qualifiers to Qatar 2022, for two plays in which the ‘WHERE’ the video assistant for referees.
The national team was in trouble in the first half where it could not find the ball and was besieged by the Ecuadorians who were approaching the goal of David ospina, who came out a figure in the first half for taking two goal balls.
Colombia Ecuador match at the Metropolitan Stadium in Barranquilla, which was 0-0 with controversial plays.
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The first controversial move It occurred at minute 68 of the second half. The Colombian midfielder Gustavo Cuellar extended his right leg to try to get the ball from Gonzalo Plata, who as soon as he saw the action dropped into the area causing the referee to sanction penal in favor of Ecuador.
However, in a play prior to the whistle of the maximum penalty the ‘WHERE’ detected an out of place and, therefore, the launch from eleven meters was not decreed.
At the end of the match, Colombia, with more grit than tactics, managed to reach goalkeeper Alexander Dominguez’s goal. Two clear goal plays by the ‘bull’ Dúvan Zapata and the guajiro ‘I fight’ Diaz They included the Ecuadorian goalkeeper who saved his team from going down on the scoreboard.
(Can read: If the playoff comes, who would it be against Colombia?).
Right at the peak of the meeting came the play that caused a stir in the sports press around the world. At minute 95 of the game, Colombia was awarded a throw-in, Juan Guillermo Cuadrado He took the ball and threw the ball to the penalty spot with his hands.
The ball fell and in the middle of a dozen legs, Yerry Mina managed to score by sending the ball to the left side of the rival goal: goal for Colombia in the final minutes of the match.
Madness broke out in the Metropolitan, but especially in Radamel Falcao Garcia, who went to yell the goal in the face of 35-year-old goalkeeper Alexander Domínguez.
The cry of Falcao
You can see him at ‘Tiger’ jumping a few inches from the goalkeeper, with his arms outstretched and exclaiming an obvious howl on the face of the Ecuadorian number 22. While the scene lasts a few seconds, the reaction of the samarium can be clearly seen.
Similarly, the ‘WHERE’ He was once again the protagonist in the match, as he detected that in the play prior to the goal, Yerry Mina touched the ball with on hand right and therefore annulled the goal that gave the victory to Colombia and put it in third position with 18 points.
(Too: ‘It hurts others everything that is happening’: Reinaldo Rueda).
In the end the match culminated in a goalless draw and both teams were in qualifying positions for the next World Cup in Qatar.
Colombia was in the fourth position with 16 points, Ecuador in the third box with 17, and the last two places are taken by Argentina, which is second with 25 and Brazil at the top with 31.
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