Playing undermanned for greater than a fifty percent, Colombia overthrew Uruguay, 1-0 in a stressful Copa América semifinal Wednesday evening.
With the win, Colombia developments to its very first Copa América last and its 2nd since winning the champion in 2001. There, it will certainly deal with a rigid job versus Lionel Messi and ruling Globe Mug champ Argentina, which travelled with its fifty percent of the area while enabling a solitary objective in 5 video games.
Colombia and Argentina will certainly challenge Sunday evening in Miami. Canada and
Wednesday’s semifinal was played in Charlotte, yet could also have actually been organized in Bogotá. The Financial institution of America stands were loaded with followers showing off yellow Colombia jackets excited to applaud their group on. Colombia supplied for those followers in an annoyed video game that tallied 6 yellow cards saw a red-card ejection.
Colombia went into Wednesday’s video game as the highest-scoring group in the competition (11 objectives), fresh off a 5-0 quarterfinal sway Panama. It struck initially on an edge start the 38th min. James Rodríguez sent out the sphere to the back blog post on the edge kick, where Jefferson Lerma jumped high airborne and pressed the sphere in between the blog post and goalkeeper Sergio Rochet.
The objective was simply the 2nd permitted by Uruguay all competition.
Colombia’s protection, at the same time, suppressed a Uruguay infraction that racked up 9 objectives in 4 video games en course to Wednesday’s competition. Uruguay really did not place any one of its 4 first-half shots on objective.
The trend endangered to move late in the 2nd fifty percent. Colombia’s Daniel Muñoz, that got a yellow card previously in the fifty percent on a take on, got his 2nd right before the fifty percent. After a scuffle adhering to a nasty on Colombia’s Davinson Sánchez, Uruguay’s Manuel Ugarte ordered Muñoz’s jacket from behind.
Muñoz reacted with an elbow joint to the upper body that knocked Ugarte to the grass, attracting his 2nd yellow and inevitably a red card that caused his ejection.
Head train Néstor Lorenzo objected fruitless. Muñoz was thrown, and Colombia was readied to play the 2nd fifty percent a guy down.
Uruguay’s infraction was a lot enhanced after halftime as it managed the sphere and placed 2 of its 7 shots on objective. However it really did not transform on the scoreboard as Colombia hung on for triumph.
The stress that noted the video game throughout rollovered at midfield after the last whistle. Gamers traded pushes and impacts at midfield in the minutes after the video game.
The scuffle was rapidly stopped prior to Colombia continued with its event.