2023-06-01 04:06:39
04:49 PM
The Colombia Sub-20 team won, liked and thrashed against Slovakia (5-1) and got into the best eight of the World Cup in the category that is held in Argentina.
Although in the first minutes La Tricolor was imprecise and anxious, as the minutes went by they looked much better in the opposite field and finished the first stage with much superiority over their rival.
“It was important to have a correction of not starting games with an adverse score, although the times this happened we had a positive reaction. Today (yesterday) we reconfirmed what we are”, said coach Héctor Cárdenas.
It may interest you: If you missed them, see here the goals of Colombia’s victory over Slovakia
In the second half, the coffee team passed over the Slovaks and scored 3 goals in six minutes: Óscar Cortés opened the scoring at 48′, Yaser Asprilla at 50′ and Tomás Ángel at 51′.
Then Tomás Ángel with a beautiful definition of his left leg sentenced the classification at 67′.
Although the Slovaks showed sporting embarrassment, they found themselves outclassed both technically and tactically by the Colombians, but at 87′ they got discount through Timotej Jambor.
To add a bow to the presentation, Óscar Cortés scored the fifth of the game and became Colombia’s top scorer in the World Cup with 4 goals.
“We had patience to find that first goal, because afterwards we knew that we were going to have more spaces to define the game”, pointed out the helmsman Cárdenas.
In the quarterfinals, the winner will face England and Italy, who meet this afternoon at 4:00 pm in Colombia.
Follow the minute by minute of the game here:
Minutes 90+7: The game ends, Colombia is in the quarterfinals for the fifth time in its history
Minutes 90+3: GOOOL!!! Óscar Cortés makes a good individual maneuver in the area and scores the fifth.
Minutes 90+1: The Saudi referee added seven minutes, although the match is already over.
Minute 90: Colombia continues with a lot of speed in attack, although the coaching staff made the five changes, the team did not clash and maintained the dynamics in the game.
Minute 89: Oops! Jorge Cabezas had it alone in front of the goalkeeper, he tried to spike it, but the goalkeeper guessed his intention.
Minute 86: GOOOOOL from Slovakia!!!!, Jambor discounts on the scoreboard.
Minute 83: Overflow from the left of Salazar who put in a razanante cross, but was opposed by a defender from Slovakia and almost put his ball into his own goal.
Minute 81: Colombia manages the result with possession of the ball, the Slovaks are resigned to their fate.
High points in this coffee team, Yáser Asprilla orchestrated the team, the full-backs were constantly on the attack and that gave the team’s attack a good dynamic.
Minute 75: Individual play by Oscar Cortés that gave Castilla the ball in front of the goal and incredibly squandered the option. Slovakia was saved!
Minute 73: Slovakia had it with a shot from outside by Gajdos, but the defense of the Tricolor contains.
Minute 71: Slovakia can’t find the ball, they are vastly outclassed by the Colombians, both technically and physically. However, they advance their lines and have managed to reach the opposite field through corner kicks.
Minute 70: Jhon Palacios and Miguel Monsalve enter, Édier Ocampo and Alexis Castillo leave.
Minute 69: ¡Narrowly! Cabezas loses it against goalkeeper Danko.
Minute 67: Coach Héctor Cárdenas moved the bench and sent Jorge Cabezas, Juan Castilla and Jhon Vélez to the field; Gustavo Puerta, Juan Castilla and the scorer Tomás Ángel leave.
Minute 63: GOOOOOL!!!! Tomás Ángel converts the fourth with a left-footed definition to the goalkeeper’s right post and defines the series.
Minute 60: Colombia does not lower its guard and already had another clear option with Alexis Castillo, who went over the crossbar. After this situation, the Europeans try to disturb the Marquines arch, but without danger.
Minute 52: GOOOOOL from Colombia!! Tomás Ángel quickly scores the third.
Minute 50: GOOOOL from Colombia!!! Yáser Asprilla scores the second from half distance.
Minutes: 48: GOOOOOL from Colombia!!! , Oscar Cortés recovers a ball in the opposite field and defines against Danko categorically.
Minutes: 45: The complementary part begins and Colombia already had a clear goal option.
Minutes 45+2: The first part ends.
Minute 42: Yáser and Óscar Cortés got together, the ten finished off, but a defender got in the way of the ball.
Minutes: 36: Gustavo Puerta had another clear option for Colombia, but Danko saved an assist from Óscar Cortés.
The tricolor set has the clearest options, but does not specify the options.
Minute 29: This time the European team arrived with a mid-distance shot from Jambor, Luis Marquines saved. But two minutes later Colombia responds with a shot inside the area and the ball goes over-
Minute 27: Tomás Ángel recovered a ball in the last quarter of the field, went hand in hand with the goalkeeper and finished off wide. The game is still tied 0-0.
Minute 26: in the last minutes of the game the Colombian national team has improved its intensity of attack, and has managed to break the defensive fence of the Slovaks.
Minute 23: shot from outside the box Edier Ocampo that went over the arc defended by the goalkeeper of the European team.
Minute 22: after a good counterattack by Colombia, which began with a good recovery by Cortés, which ended with an overflow to the bottom of Yaser Asprillawho put a cross into the area that was cleared by the Slovakia defense.
Minute 20: Slovakia took control of the ball in the final minutes, but it was not clear about the goal defended by Marquínes. According to the official match statistics, the Slovaks have 81% possession of the ball; while Colombia only has 19% in this item.
Minute 15: the game slowed down. The Colombian players maintain the position of the ball, but they have not been able to break the defensive fence set up by the Europeans. When Slovakia has the ball, the Creole soccer players do not press high, with the same intensity that they did in the first minutes of the game.
Minute 10: in the last minutes of the game the game has become more contested in the middle of the field. The Slovaks put a defensive block in the middle of the field; while the Colombian team has had control of the ball, but has not been able to generate a clear goal play on the goal defended by the European goalkeeper.
Minute 5: the Colombian national team came out with intensity to attack. The coffee players have made association plays with speed and have stepped on the area of the Slovaks several times. For their part, the European team has stood up well in the defensive zone and when they have found spaces they have made against attacks that the Creoles have controlled.
The round of 16 match begins! Colombia made the first touch of the game that is played at the San Juan del Bicentenario stadium.
This is the headline of the Colombian National Team:
This is how Slovakia will form:
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