The Colombian team will test its effectiveness on Sunday Heading on goal, his main deficit at the start of the Copa América, against a Peruvian team that fell 4-0 in their debut against Brazil on Thursday.
The three points will be key for both teams. While the coffee growers they will seek the triumph to be partial leaders, with one more match than the Canarinha, Peruvians will want to claim their first victory at the tournament.
The match will be played at the stadium Olympic Pedro Ludovico Teixeira de Goiania, where Colombia equaled 0-0 against Venezuela in a match that dominated but did not win due to the outstanding performance of goalkeeper Wuilker Faríñez and the mistakes of his attackers.
Along these lines, Rueda works to improve in this regard, because despite having four points and be second behind the leader Brazil, the selection coffee maker only has scored a goal in both games playeds, a fantasy by Edwin Cardona that unlocked the debut match against Gustavo Alfaro’s rocky Ecuador.
The former Chile and Honduras coach will also have to work to solve the problems posed by the casualties of midfielder Matheus Uribe, by accumulation of yellow, and the extreme Luis Diaz, sent off against Vinotinto after having entered in the second half.
On the other hand, Peru began preparing for the match with Colombia on Friday with hardly any time to reflect on the defeat suffered by Brazil in their debut in the tournament.
“We will have to get up”, said the technician Ricardo Gareca, who claimed the group’s ability to overcome the “blows” they have received over the last six years.
For this match, the Argentine coach is expected to be able to recover full-back Miguel Trauco, who missed the duel against Brazil, and striker Santiago Ormeño, who was not against ‘Canarinha’ either due to muscle discomfort that prevented him from exercising at the same level as the rest. of his classmates.
If he starts, Trauco will also have a revenge after the duel that both teams played on June 3 in Lima, which Colombia won 0-3 in which it was also Rueda’s debut as a coffee coach. Also are outlined as headlines some of the footballers who were part of the team that fell to Brazil, such as Renato Tapia, André Carrillo and Christian Cueva.
POSSIBLE TRAININGS
Colombia: David Ospina; Daniel Muñoz, Yerry Mina, Davinson Sánchez, William Tesillo; Wílmar Barrios, Baldomero Perlaza, Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, Edwin Cardona; Luis Fernando Muriel and Miguel Borja.
Peru: Pedro Gallese; Aldo Corzo, Christian Ramos, Luis Abram, Marcos López; Renato Tapia, Yoshimar Yotún, André Carrillo, Sergio Peña, Christian Cueva; and Gianluca Lapadula.
HOUR: 00:00 GMT (21:00 ARG-URU / 20:00 CHI-PAR-VEN-BOL-MEX / 19:00 COL-PER-ECU)
TV: DirecTV 1610
STADIUM: Olympic Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, from Goiania.
REFEREE: Esteban Ostojich (URU)
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