The Colombia Women’s U-20 National Team qualified for the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Costa Rica after drawing 2-2 against New Zealand at the National Stadium in San José. In addition to the ticket to the next phase, he won first place in the Group B.
Linda Caycedo continues to show his great moment, after the America Cup of majors in which the figure was chosen and this opportunity being vital in the tie against the oceanic team, in which it was reported with the double that gave the Tricolor team the passage to the next round.
The meeting began adversely for those led by Carlos Paniaguaafter at minute 3 Emily Clegg opened the scoring in a neglect in defense of Colombia. However, the draw was not long in coming and it was Caicedo in charge of scoring a great goal from mid-distance who hung the rival goalkeeper at minute 10′.
The match was developed with two round trips for both teams, with clearer actions for the national team with Gisela Robledo, who missed two scoring options. The bad news arrived at 42′, when Yirleidis Quejada he was ejected for a strong tackle foul.
After the break, the Colombian National Team returned with the desire to sentence the match and found its reward at 63′ in a good combination on the left between Robledo and Caicedo, who in the end was the one who made an individual play and defined with a cross shot for the partial 2-1.
However, a goal was missing from the match and at 71′ Lancaster scored another jewelafter shooting from the right edge of the area and hanging goalkeeper Natalia Giraldo.
With this result, the Colombian National Team achieved 5 points in the group stage and a difference of more than one goal, to stay with the first place in table B. Mexicowhich beat Germany 1-0, achieved second place with the same number of units.
Given this, Colombia will be measured in the quarterfinals against the team that occupies the second place in Group Awhich still needs to be defined and has Spain, Brazil and Australia as the countries chosen to classify and eventual rivals of the National Team.