Post by account_disabled on Jan 10, 2024 9:26:02 GMT
A dramatic penalty shootout, in which they were at a disadvantage, gave England this Tuesday their first qualification for the quarter-finals of a World Cup in twelve years and sent Colombia home in the cruelest way possible, after having revived with a goal from Yerry Mina in the 94th minute.
England, who had never won a penalty shootout in a World Cup, took advantage of the errors of Mateus Uribe and Carlos Bacca to turn the result around when it was at its worst. On Saturday, in Samara, Sweden awaits them to seek a place in the semifinals.
Penalties resolved a tough match, which turned into a roller coaster, which Gareth Southgate's team won before extra time and which lasted half an hour more thanks to Yerri Mina.
From the heights, when everything was already lost, the Barcelona defender offered Colombia another opportunity, which he ultimately failed to take advantage of.
With his superiority in the air and a finishing Binance App Users Data ability that has allowed him to equal Paul Breitner as the highest scoring defender, the Barcelona defender gave a second life to his team, when the English were already celebrating that a controversial penalty taken by Harry Kane It earned them a place in the quarterfinals.
Because until that moment, in which desperate Colombia sought a miracle, Gareth Southgate's team was the clear winner of a difficult game, marked by the absence of James Rodríguez.
Colombia, with its star injured in the stands, was a flat team for many minutes, succumbing to an arbitration decision, with no solutions to escape the English trap.
With high pressure and a better occupation of space than the rival, England lived in the Colombian field almost all of the first half, although without putting the coffee defense in trouble.
Pekerman did not want to offer the English any space to run and, with Wilmar Barrios in front of the defense, watching Raheem Sterling, or embedded between the centre-backs, he deactivated the British attack.
Solid in defense, where Davinson Sánchez and Yerry Mina imposed their forcefulness over the top, Colombia, however, had no one to give it a way out, nor could it look for a counterattack. Without James, with Quintero very unfortunate and Cuadrado intermittent, Falcao wandered around bored, without a partner to assist him.
It didn't go much better for Kane, who only had a header that went high (m.16).
With both teams engaged in continuous disputes, between pushing and pretending, the game lost pace and petered out on the way to half-time.
Without a game, with the match constantly interrupted by fights between players, the danger could come from a referee constantly surpassed in every action.
And so it happened shortly after the start of the second half, when the American Mark Geiger converted another wrestling exercise between Harry Kane and Carlos Sánchez into a penalty after a corner.
Kane fell in the area, Geiger gave a penalty and the World Cup scorer increased his score with his sixth goal, the third from eleven meters (m.57).
England, who had never won a penalty shootout in a World Cup, took advantage of the errors of Mateus Uribe and Carlos Bacca to turn the result around when it was at its worst. On Saturday, in Samara, Sweden awaits them to seek a place in the semifinals.
Penalties resolved a tough match, which turned into a roller coaster, which Gareth Southgate's team won before extra time and which lasted half an hour more thanks to Yerri Mina.
From the heights, when everything was already lost, the Barcelona defender offered Colombia another opportunity, which he ultimately failed to take advantage of.
With his superiority in the air and a finishing Binance App Users Data ability that has allowed him to equal Paul Breitner as the highest scoring defender, the Barcelona defender gave a second life to his team, when the English were already celebrating that a controversial penalty taken by Harry Kane It earned them a place in the quarterfinals.
Because until that moment, in which desperate Colombia sought a miracle, Gareth Southgate's team was the clear winner of a difficult game, marked by the absence of James Rodríguez.
Colombia, with its star injured in the stands, was a flat team for many minutes, succumbing to an arbitration decision, with no solutions to escape the English trap.
With high pressure and a better occupation of space than the rival, England lived in the Colombian field almost all of the first half, although without putting the coffee defense in trouble.
Pekerman did not want to offer the English any space to run and, with Wilmar Barrios in front of the defense, watching Raheem Sterling, or embedded between the centre-backs, he deactivated the British attack.
Solid in defense, where Davinson Sánchez and Yerry Mina imposed their forcefulness over the top, Colombia, however, had no one to give it a way out, nor could it look for a counterattack. Without James, with Quintero very unfortunate and Cuadrado intermittent, Falcao wandered around bored, without a partner to assist him.
It didn't go much better for Kane, who only had a header that went high (m.16).
With both teams engaged in continuous disputes, between pushing and pretending, the game lost pace and petered out on the way to half-time.
Without a game, with the match constantly interrupted by fights between players, the danger could come from a referee constantly surpassed in every action.
And so it happened shortly after the start of the second half, when the American Mark Geiger converted another wrestling exercise between Harry Kane and Carlos Sánchez into a penalty after a corner.
Kane fell in the area, Geiger gave a penalty and the World Cup scorer increased his score with his sixth goal, the third from eleven meters (m.57).
