The Colombian players disengaged after falling on penalties yesterday at Spartak. Photo: AP
The calf is gone, the cumbia is gone. Cardiac, spicy, the selection of Colombia has taken everything until the last instance, but in the penalties, the failures of Mateus Uribe and Carlos Bacca have condemned the coffee producers, before the English, who qualified for the quarterfinals, after a match in which both offered good football, strong tickets and fought at all times.
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The coffee growers and the British were involved, from the first moments, in a fierce fight for the balloon. two teams that played openly, forward and backward, taking very little care of defensive errors, keeping a margin for a possible fall and also for success.
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At the 5 minute it arrived the first for the Europeans, after a hand on the edge of the zone, on the left side, by Yerry Mina. Ashley Young finished with his right, but his shot just went wide. Then the coffee producers did not shrink; before being intimidated, they sought to harm the gangs and counter-attack.
And it seemed like the creators were throwing themselves behind, they squatted before the attacks of the South American team, but at 15 '. of care. Kieran Trippier sent a cross into the penalty box, and Harry Kane, who had barely made it, shot wide to the right with a shot wide of the crossbar.
In the 55th minute, Kane is overthrown in the Colombian zone. charge the penalty that advances his team.
However, during the first half hour, both players began to engage in a melee combat, in which the ball was not exactly the protagonist, which made the process of meeting in a bland romance, with some arrivals of probity and commission intact, with the 0-0.
The final stretch of the first time was only for the British and Colombians to go to stages and shoving, killing the minutes and drowning the football proposals, so maybe the three lions have tried long distance shots, but could not specify anything;
For the beginning of the game, José Néstor Pékerman's students tried to play. Step by step, to touch, to distribute the ball and to gain meters, but it is necessary much more than that to intimidate the English who stopped only very well and which thus contained their rivals.
A 54 & # 39; corner kick, Carlos Sanchez jolted and then pushed the front of the creators, Harry Kane, who fell and was left with no chance of finishing; the same striker of the Europeans was the one taking the round and eleven marches he finished strong and in the center, if goalkeeper David Ospina had been stopped, maybe the ball had not crossed the goal line.
At 93, After a corner kick, Mina leaves among a group of players and ends with his head, for the equalizer.
The Tricolor began to fall in despair and claimed all the faults desperately and the referee started to go the game of the hands.
After 70 minutes, the South Americans began to look, in an exasperated manner, at the equalization, but the creators knew very well cut the conduits so that the sleeve does not happen comfortably at the age of 81, Carlos Bacca, who had come in exchange for Jefferson Lerma, retrieved the midfield ball and headed immediately to the left, then sent a cross to Juan Cuadrado, but the player J Uventus, who was alone against England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, barely took a shot well over the goal.
In agony, England threw itself back and forth, while the British lurked, though its other imprecise passes; to the South Americans it cost them depth, but just at the last breath their price came to them.
The American player Mateus Uribe was the one who gave the warning, when he had a chocolate and the half-court he shot a bomb he is integrated by the right angle the European goal; Then there was a corner, which took the place and, among a group of attackers and defenders, left Yerry Mina, who left the center of the zone and sent the left square, Kieran Trippier, as the last man, who tried to clear with the head, but the ball was so strong that it was impossible and could not avoid the equalizer. Colombia has reached overtime.
At 112, Rose goes to the left; his shot comes out slightly; it was the most clear overtime.
And as expected, those of Pekerman stayed with the emotional moment, so they did not stop harassing the English cabin, with centers everywhere; however, the second was refused, while England did not know how to react.
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For the last 15 minutes, Europeans started with stuff, actually at 106 & # 39 ;, Jamie Vardy was at the point of getting second place for his team, but goalkeeper Ospina is proud of it.
At 111, Danny Rose had one on the left side and from there he fired a cross shot from the left post of the Colombian goalkeeper, but it all ended with another approach. And the rest was history. The series was decided from the eleven stages
In the penalties, Uribe and Bacca missed by Colombia and who sentenced them, while England, with so many Kane, Marcus Rashford, Kieran Trippier and Eric Dier, went to the quarterfinals.
"During the 120 minutes we fought with our arms, with our forces, we carried a plan to the end and we managed to shoot. In the kicks to the goal, the victory could be for everyone, and we have a disarray because we thought we could have qualified "
