With a goalless draw, the friendly match between the Colombia National Soccer Team and its team in Chile ended at the José Rico Pérez stadium in Alicante, Spain, where the national team showed a good performance on the defensive side.
The first part started with ample dominance of the austral team, which through its fast game managed to disturb repeatedly the defensive block of the coffee box, who did not find how to take the ball away from the good combination that made it look much better on the court .
However, the strong dominance of the Chileans lasted the first 15 minutes of play, because the Colombian team found with a vertical game the clearest options to open the scoreboard. The first came with a shot by Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, after an overflow on the right.
At 19 minutes it was Duván Zapata who tried it, after turning around in the area, but Claudio Bravo reacted very well and again removed the danger from his area, as he did in the play of Cuadrado who also managed to overcome effectively to keep the arc at zero.
After 20 minutes he had to leave the pitch Gary Medel, due to an injury he suffered in the play where Square worried the Chilean arch, and in his replacement Sebastian Vega entered. For Colombia, the one who was injured was Duván Zapata, who left after 22 minutes for Alfredo Morelos.From there the coffee box was installed much better in the field and although the australs were the owners of the ball in the middle of the field, they failed to disturb the arc defended by David Ospina in the first 45 minutes.
While Colombia, with less possession, continued trying with a very vertical game, arriving in danger twice more with Morelos, who entered plugged in and had a header that did not come out hard. Yerry Mina also tried it on a still ball, but had no fortune.
With the goalless draw the first part of the commitment ended, where Colombia, without being superior, took better advantage of the moments of the match and generated the clearest options to open the scoring.
For the second half, the Colombian team entered the field much better, seeking to have more of the ball and trying to gain ground, which led to a raid on the right sector of Cuadrado, who was knocked down in the area, after 48 minutes. but the central did not punish the penalty.
At 63 minutes Morelos again disturbed the arch of Bravo, with a shot from outside the area that the Chilean player controlled very well. Three minutes later Alfredo had another shot inside the area, but this time he crashed into a southern player.
The game moved for a few minutes to the Bravo area with a series of corner throws and side charges, which led to the goal of those led by Reinaldo Rueda. Those minutes were suffered by Chile, which even stripes took out.
After 70 minutes the game lowered emotion and grew in intensity. The Chileans dedicated themselves to hitting the ball in half and Colombia did not come back with danger to the goal of Claudio Bravo, only until minute 83, where Jéfferson Lerma finished off from outside the area at the hands of the goalkeeper.
Those directed by Carlos Queiroz showed a good face in the defensive sector, where it was possible to annul the most important men of the austral team such as Alexis Sánchez, who in the end was injured after extensive physical wear.
Now Colombia is preparing to face Algeria next Tuesday October 15 to the selection of Algeria in Lille, France.
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