Reinaldo Rueda recognizes that Colombia needs to specify, be effective and consolidate its defensive bloc

The coach of Colombia, Reinaldo Rueda, said this Monday, one day before the meeting with Paraguay for the fourteenth date of the 2022 World Cup tie, that his team needs to specify, be more effective and consolidate in defense to “dream with the goal ”of obtaining a place in Qatar.

“Now we need to specify, specify, be effective, continue to consolidate defensively and achieve efficiency to dream of achieving the goal we all want,” Rueda said at a press conference.

“The important thing is to channel, orient well that level of anxiety that does not immobilize and serves as a motor to play a good game and get a good result,” said the coach.

Colombia currently occupies fifth place in the South American tie, which gives the right to play a repechage.

Four games ago he has not won or scored goals. They matched three in a row with the same 0-0 and lost the last 1-0, last Thursday, against Brazil in Sao Paulo.

This Tuesday he receives Paraguay in Barranquilla, a rival that, according to Rueda, should not be underestimated.

“All games have complexity and demand. We can neither overvalue, as we did not in Brazil, nor underestimate the other rivals that are not Brazil, “he noted.

Lack of stability

Colombia will not have Radamel Falcao García, Matheus Uribe, Yerry Mina, Carlos Cuesta and Stefan Medina, who were not called up due to injury.

And due to the accumulation of yellow cards, midfielder Wilmar Barrios and left-back Johan Mojica will miss the match.

This is what Rueda referred to, lamenting the possibility of maintaining stability in the starting line-up, which is a challenge and somewhat “complex” for the National Team.

“The ideal would be to maintain a stable payroll, but we have not been able to because of the irregularity of our players in the clubs due to injuries, due to sanctions, which perhaps has made it possible for us to stabilize these calls,” said the coach.

“Hopefully we do not have so many changes between call and call and allow us to stabilize the eleven, or the fourteen, or the sixteen that may be what we want.” (D)