The November date of the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers arrives and with it an undeniable reality: injuries, more than anything, will be the main protagonists.
Almost all the teams suffer from last-minute casualties, at a strange time of the season, since it is no longer starting, which usually brings complications, but the European competitions, especially, have already taken temperature and now it is exhaustion that is the that can take its toll.
The truth is that there are truly dramatic cases, such as Uruguay. There are already eight casualties that maestro Óscar Tabárez will have to build his payroll, no less than in the crosses against Argentina (local) and Bolivia (visitor. At the height of La Paz he will go without Edinson Cavani, Sebastián Cáceres, Matías Viña, Federico Valverde, Nicolás de la Cruz, Giorgian De Arrascaeta, Maximiliano Gómez and Darwin Núñez.
But not far away is Colombia, which suffered the injury last weekend, another one, from its historic striker Radamel Falcao to face Brazil as a visitor and Paraguay in Barranquilla. The loss is added to those of Yerry Mina, Carlos Cuesta, Matheus Uribe, Stefan Medina and Óscar Murillo.
Brazil, the rival of Colombia this Thursday, will not have Firmino, injured in Liverpool, or Lucas Veríssimo, one of the great revelations of Tite and who suffered a serious injury in recent days.
For Argentina, Nicolás González will not be, outstanding in the Copa América but who did not overcome a contagion of covid-19, and for Venezuela will not Salomón Rondón, a reference of attack who has just joined Everton but is not in the required physical form.
In Chile, the casualties go through Edson Puch and Charles Aranguiz, while Peru will miss Paolo Guerrero and Ecuador will have to fix, against Chile and Brazil, without Enner Valencia.
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