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Colombia’s nationwide crew continues to make regular progress within the Copa America. The tricolor crew beat a really weak Panama on Saturday afternoon and secured their place within the semifinals of the match. With this victory, Néstor Lorenzo’s crew has an unbeaten streak of 27 video games with out shedding and is rising as one of many potential winners of the match being held in the USA. Colombia will face Uruguay subsequent Wednesday, the crew led by Marcelo Bielsa, who eradicated Brazil in an agonizing penalty shootout. The opposite semifinal might be performed on Tuesday between Messi’s Argentina and Canada, who additionally beat Venezuela on penalties this Friday.
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Orlando Mosquera, Jose Cordoba, Eric Davis (Omar Valencia, min. 82), Edgardo Fariña, Roderick Miller (Carlos Harvey, min. 45), Michael Murillo, Jovani Welch, Christian Martinez (Abdiel Ayarza, min. 61), Yoel Barcenas, Cesar Blackman and Jose Fajardo Nelson (Ismael Diaz, min. 84)
Objectives 1-0 min. 8: Córdoba. 2-0 min. 15: James. 3-0 min. 40: Luis Díaz. 4-0 min. 70: Richard Rios. 5-0 min. 94: Miguel Borja.
Referee Maurizio Mariani
Yellow playing cards: Mateus Uribe (min. 44), Jovani Welch (min. 54), Edgardo Fariña (min. 63) and José Córdoba (min. 91)
The Colombian crew shined with the monumental left foot of James Rodríguez, who scored a penalty aim firstly of the match and made two assists. James’ second is great. Nobody questions it anymore. The quantity ten, the historic captain, the chief of the crew, has 5 assists on this match and is seen as the perfect participant within the cup. His efficiency recollects the perfect video games of the illuminated James within the World Cup in Brazil in 2014, ten years in the past, when he led Colombia to the quarterfinals and was the highest scorer of the match. Along with Rodríguez’s aim, the tricolor defeated Panama 5-0 with targets from Jhon Córdoba, Luis Díaz, Richard Ríos and Miguel Ángel Borja.
Colombia dominated your complete match with none issues. Earlier than twenty minutes of the primary half, the tricolor was already successful 2-0. The primary aim was scored by Jhon Córdoba with a header, after a nook kick by James Rodríguez. Córdoba gained the beginning ahead place from Rafael Santos Borré. The second was a penalty by Rodríguez that was unattainable for goalkeeper Orlando Mosquera. After the 2 targets, there have been a couple of minutes by which the Panamanian crew tried to come back again, however goalkeeper Camilo Vargas prevented the aim scoring choices.
Minutes later, James Rodríguez confirmed his expertise once more. He rapidly took a free kick from the center of the sphere for Lucho Díaz to beat the goalkeeper and seal the 3-0. Within the second half, Colombia maintained management of the sport. Midfielder Richard Ríos scored a long-distance aim and Miguel Ángel Borja scored the 5-0 with a penalty within the final minute.
On the finish of the match, James celebrated the victory: “A tricky match, they’re robust, however we began in an excellent manner, we knew the right way to rating targets rapidly and that gave us management of the match,” mentioned Rodríguez. He added: “I wished to have an excellent cup, to assist my teammates to go far, right now we’re going till the final day, we hope to achieve that closing that all of us need,” added the Colombian captain.
Colombia’s overwhelming victory confirms the statements of Uruguay’s coach, Marcelo Bielsa, who on Saturday morning clearly assessed the standard of the Colombian crew’s assault. “Colombia is a crew with too many forwards and that’s not frequent on this planet of soccer. It’s a crew that has multiple choice for every place, and with out nice variations between the one who begins and the one who is available in. All this stuff could be verified as a result of they aren’t my opinions, they’re realities,” mentioned Bielsa in a press convention. He added: “The Colombian participant has undergone a metamorphosis as a result of they play in the perfect leagues on this planet and compete naturally. So to the freshness and predominantly artistic soccer that has at all times distinguished the expressions of that nation, now they’ve added what’s indispensable to outlive in right now’s soccer.”
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