Argentina (1) vs. Colombia (0) – Results

Last Updated on February 2, 2022 10:43 am by Erwin Noguera

With Messi, De Paul, and Paredes encouraging their National Team by video call, Argentina continues with its firm walk in the Qualifiers. Already qualified for Qatar 2022, Argentina beat Colombia 1-0 and extended their unbeaten record to 29 matches.

The Colombian team, for its part, came to this match with the mission of at least adding 1 point so that its aspirations to qualify directly for the World Cup would remain latent, but, the game they classify as the worst match in the era of their coach, Reinaldo Rueda, left them on the verge of elimination.

The Colombian team, which came out intending to be a proactive team and take possession of the ball, ended up being subjected from the first minute by pressure from the Argentine team, which played with Lionel Scaloni’s B team, but which embodied the idea of ​​a coach who leads an undefeated 29 games without losing, the longest of Argentina’s history.

It was not until minute 29, when the top scorer of this era of Argentine soccer, Lautaro Martínez, managed to score the first and only goal of the game, which ultimately gave them victory.

The first 45 minutes of Colombia were to be forgotten, but in one of the last plays of the first half, after a great individual play by Luis Díaz, Miguel Borja failed the one-on-one with Dibu Martínez.

At 12 minutes into the second half, Colombia began to change the pieces in search of generating more offensive play and trying to score the goal of equality.

Lionel Scaloni proposed it in the same way for his team, but, in this case, to take care of his players, after he saw that the game could become more physical due to the desperation that Colombia was showing.

Luis Suárez and Diego Valoyes were the attacking solutions that the coach found to change history. Juan Guillermo Cuadrado did not come out, he had a bad game, but he was the irreplaceable leader of the team and took the position of side.

We can also highlight the excellent performance of goalkeeper Camilo Vargas, who kept Colombia’s hopes alive until the end of the game with 3 key saves, two of them to Angel Di Maria who was the most dangerous man in Argentina on the pitch.

Colombia tried until the end of the game, but for the seventh consecutive game, they failed to win or score goals. This is a negative feat that equals the worst historical record of CONMEBOL that was in the hands of Venezuela in the 90s.