The South American World Preliminary Tournament can be described as the most difficult game, 10 strong teams compete for 4 direct qualifying places, and there are always a few strong teams that will be knocked out. In this round of the World Preliminary Round, FIFA's 16th-ranked Colombia team broke out of the big cold, they were in the home possession rate of up to 70%, tragically killed by peru, after this game, Colombia fell directly to the 6th place, three points behind the promotion zone, in the World Preliminary Round only 3 rounds left, Colombia's hope of qualifying for the World Cup is getting smaller and smaller.
Colombia as a Regular World Cup visitor, their strength is beyond doubt, the team has J Ronaldo, Falcao and Cuadrado these well-known stars, however, this World Preliminary Tournament, Colombia's performance can only be described as dismal. In this match with Peru, if they can get points, they will take the initiative in the process of promotion, but it is very unfortunate that in this game, Colombia was upset by the opponent in the case of the whole game!
In the first half of the game, Peru adopted the tactic of full contraction of defense, which was very effective, and J Ronaldo and Falcao in the Colombian front line missed the goal one after another. After the game entered the second half, the Colombian players who could not attack for a long time began to be a little impatient. After many unsuccessful attacks, there were huge holes in the back line.
The turning point of the game occurred in the 85th minute, when The Peruvian team played a quick counter-attack, Flores received a pass from Cueva, hit a hit, and helped the Peruvian team complete the kill. The goal was a huge deal for Peru. Because of this victory, they also directly broke into the promotion area!
Statistically, Colombia did lose a bit of a miscarriage of this game, with almost 6 times the shooting statistics of their opponents, but the end result was that they lost 3 points. After this game, Colombia want to qualify for the World Cup, it has become more and more difficult, the last 3 rounds of matches, they also have giants like Argentina to deal with, the difficulty of qualifying is not small!