The coffee team, which qualified for Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018, currently occupies fifth place, which is going to the repechage. On Tuesday they collide with Paraguay.
Colombian Juan Guillermo Cuadrado assured this Sunday that his team will give 200% to qualify for its third consecutive World Cup, for which it must defeat Paraguay in Barranquilla on Tuesday in the fourteenth day of the South American qualifiers to Qatar 2022.
“We know it is difficult, but we are going to give, not 100%, but 200% to meet another objective, which is to go to the third World Cup and we are working towards that. We are totally dependent on us, ”said the 33-year-old midfielder at a press conference.
Colombia, which qualified for the 2014 World Cups in Brazil and Russia 2018, currently occupies fifth place, which is going to the playoffs, but is on a losing streak in which it equaled three consecutive games and lost 1-0 the last one it played on Thursday. last against Brazil in Sao Paulo.
That is why Cuadrado emphasizes that the match against Paraguay is “very important.”
“We have to go play it as a final. The tactical approach will be put together by the teacher and today we will begin to work on what Paraguay is and see how we can harm it, “he said, adding that the team will come out” to propose. “
Along these lines, he stressed that Albirroja, directed by Guillermo Barros Schelotto, “is a great team.”
“We have to be attentive to the still ball, they are very dangerous there, they base their game on the wings a lot, trying to specialize their game by using the striker a lot, going to the support balls, and they throw a lot of centers,” he said of the rival Tuesday.
Finally, the Juventus player pointed out that these Qualifiers have been very different due to the covid-19 pandemic, which has forced the games to be played more often, “without much recovery time.”
“But we are very calm (…) with the talent we have everything to qualify,” he concluded.
Colombia is fifth in the classification table, with 16 points, the same as Chile (fourth) and Uruguay (sixth) and above it is also Ecuador (20 points), and the undefeated Argentina (28) and Brazil (34). (D)
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