Two dates after the end of the qualifiers for Qatar, these are the accounts of the Colombia national team

In the last two FIFA dates of the South American Qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the Colombian team will face Bolivia and Venezuela, duels where those led by Reinaldo Rueda will seek a complicated qualification to the World Cup. It should be noted that the national team did not convince either in results or in play.

The Colombian team comes from adding another bad result and reached a new anti-record: 630 minutes without scoring; thus becoming the team with the longest time without generating a goal in the continent. And it should be remembered that, in this round, it is the worst that the national team has played in this century. Since Japan and Korea 2002 to date, the national team has never scored so few points.

To date, coffee growers are ranked number 7 in the standings of the South American Qualifiers for Qatar 2022 with 17 points and three goals against, worse records than those of the South American Qualifiers for South Africa 2010, in which the national team was eighth in the standings, but with 20 points.

Uruguay, Peru, Chile and Colombia are the four teams that will fight for the direct quota and the repechage to go to the World Cup, places that remain in the Conmebol standings. For its part, the Colombian national team is the least likely to reach the fifth square, since, according to statistics, it has only 1% chance of entering directly and 3% of reaching by repechage.

Now, assuming that the national team scores all three points in these two matches, it needs Peru to draw or lose to Uruguay in Montevideo and Paraguay in Lima. That is to aspire to a repechage that will be played in June. And, if the 'tricolor' is in the fifth box, the World Cup draw will be held until next April 1.

On the other hand, this classification was complicated when Colombia faced teams that were not far from the fifth place. Well, the draw against Bolivia, in local condition, plus the two draws against Paraguay were decisive results. If this had been different, that is, not having lost the 6 points, today Colombia would be one point higher than Uruguay, which is fourth with 22 points.

In addition, it should be borne in mind that, as Reinaldo Rueda himself explained, one of the factors that affected the success of the goal was the low level at which some of the players called were, but he stated that the strikers were the ones who made the most failures since they failed to define key moves.

Rueda showed in his report to the Colombian Football Federation a video that repeated time and again the multiple failures of the national team's players in front of the rivals' goal. These images were part, among other documents, of all the analysis that the coach gave as a balance of the last matches of the national team.

The clip shows the clear opportunities that the players of the national team had to achieve a goal in the different matches they have had for the South American Qualifiers in Qatar 2022. This video shows from the decision of Miguel Ángel Borja against Peru and Argentina, the approach of Duván Zapata to the goal of the Uruguayan national team, as well as that of Valoyes against Paraguay, among others.

The Colombia team will host Bolivia at the Metropolitano de Barranquilla this Friday, March 25, at 6:30pm local time, and will close with Venezuela in San Cristobal on the 30th of the same month, at 7:30pm Colombian time.

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