2023-09-07 22:39:51
Minute by minute:
5:30 p.m.
This is how the atmosphere is lived in the Estadio Metropolitano de Barranquilla, less than an hour following the start of the match valid for the first date. The team left cheering before the warm-up.
These are other postcards of the charming venue of the Atlantic capital, which fills up with the public within minutes of the start of the game.
Metropolitan Stadium of Barranquilla | Photo: Pilar Velásquez – WEEK
5:00 p.m.
These are the confirmed lineups of both teams:
Previa
One more edition of the South American Qualifiers arrives thinking regarding the 2026 World Cup in North America and having the great novelty of the increase in quotas for the South American elevenths. Directly, six places are enabled to play the orbital jousts in the United States, Mexico and Canada, while there is another one for playoffs.
In this way, it is imperative for the Tricolor to settle in the atypical World Cup of 48 teams, but beyond the “what”, the “how” will prevail, since the objective will be to stand up to the greatest of the contest. There is a payroll and great illusions of vindicating themselves with the fans, following being eliminated for Qatar 2022.
Colombia team in its last practice before playing once morest Venezuela. | Photo: FCF
Thus, the coffee team hopes to enforce their home once morest a rival that usually gets in the way, despite the fact that they have set the baton as host in Barranquilla. They only lost to Venezuela on November 15, 2003, the day they lost 0-1 once morest their neighbors.
As for Néstor Lorenzo, the Tricolor strategist knows well what will be at stake and hopes that his team will be a great protagonist in the qualifying phase. For this, the victory in the Metropolitan Stadium of the Atlantic capital is more than imminent.
Néstor Gabriel Lorenzo, coach of the Colombian National Team. | Photo: ESTEBAN VEGA LA ROTTA / WEEK
The previous work, the friendlies that the National Team had in Europe, presents a good outlook for what is to come. The most important thing is that there is attitude and aptitude.
For its part, the Venezuelan team will seek to enter the first World Cup in its history. He doesn’t really know what it’s like to experience a party of such magnitude, but led by Fernando ‘Bocha’ Batista, also a former assistant to José Pékerman, he hopes that his team will take home some positive result.
In the recent dialogue with the media, Batista indicated: “We arrived with expectations and desire”, adding that “usually it does not reach ‘not losing’, because when you go to a game not to lose, you end up losing”, inviting game intelligence and take advantage of competitive weapons.
Although Venezuelans are going through a generational change, names like Salomón Rondón, Roberto Rosales and Tomás Rincón still remain.
In this way, a very entertaining game is expected and in which Colombia will have to be the main protagonist to stay with the victory and its good feelings, also thinking regarding what will be the second date once morest Chile, as a visitor.
Time and channel to watch the game
Colombia vs. Venezuela
Roberto Melendez Metropolitan Stadium in Barranquilla.
6:00 p. m.
Time: (local time).
1694128544
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