Unrest in Colombia's national team due to late arrival in Venezuela

The match between Venezuela vs. Colombia, scheduled to be played on Tuesday, March 29 in the city of Puerto Ordaz, started playing a day earlier with the arrival of the 'tricolor' in the neighboring country. Players, coaching staff and clothing were held for more than two hours at the General Manuel Carlos Piar International Airport.

Colombian reporters, who are present in Venezuela for the last match of the South American Qualifying, indicated that more than 50 PCR tests were carried out for the detection of coronavirus and each of the bags of the Colombian delegation were analyzed. With the bad fortune that one of the machines suffered a breakdown which would have delayed the process.

This excessive review caused discomfort between players and coaching staff, as well as delaying the organized itinerary for the match against Venezuela. In the end, the arrival at the hotel took place after 9:00 at night.

The match between Venezuela vs. Colombia will be played at the Cachamay stadium with capacity for 42,000 people. It is estimated that there will be a significant presence of Colombian fans given the importance of the match on the way to reach the Qatar 2022 World Cup. It is worth remembering that the only place available for Conmebol is that of Repechage, where they will face the national team from the Asian Qualifying.

The match is scheduled to be played at 6:30 in the afternoon, Colombian time, as is the rest of the date: Peru vs. Paraguay, Chile vs. Uruguay, Bolivia vs. Brazil and Argentina vs. Ecuador. The teams already qualified for Qatar 2022 are Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay. Meanwhile, Colombia, Peru and Chile are the ones who fight for that quota in the repechage.

The effectiveness of scoring, the firmness when it comes to defending, and even luck, will be decisive on the last day of the qualifying rounds, in which more than one Tricolor fan will surely be with the cell phone calculator in hand, when not with the open window of Google updates on other commitments.

Well, sticking to mathematics, those led by Reinaldo Rueda have two different formulas to attend the top football competition, one with a win and the other with a draw. The scenarios are as follows:

1. May Colombia beat Venezuela on its visit to Guyana and Peru lose or draw with Paraguay. If it happens, the coffee team will climb to fifth place in the qualifiers, that is, they will play the third repechage in the Asian qualifiers table.

2. Let Colombia draw with Venezuela, Peru fall to Paraguay and Chile lose to Uruguay, although some southern media have referred to a possible Santiago Pact in the last of these clashes.

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