Kolkata:- South America’s most powerful team met yesterday in a very important match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers. Messi less Argentina face off in the Metropolitan, and against him a new Colombia.
Colombia beat Argentina 2-1 on Tuesday, Argentina’s third loss in five years. However, from the beginning of the match, Colombia was playing football in a different rhythm.
Colombia’s attacking department put Argentina’s defense on the back foot from the first minute of the first half. From Liverpool’s Luis Diaz to Aston Villa’s John Duran, the attacking department seemed to take a different pace against DePaul today.
However, there was a controversy between the matches. A last-minute penalty awarded to Rodriguez is largely controversial.
Nico Gonzalez equalized Argentina. But then the controversy started.
The Colombian players appealed for a penalty after a foul by Nicolas Otamendi. However, the referee did not pay much attention to that.
2 minutes after the start of the game, the referee gave a penalty due to the demand of the Colombian player Munz, so that Hamez Rodriguez scored a goal for Colombia.
At the end of this debate, Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni expressed his anger. He said, ‘If I say something, they will say we don’t know how to lose. Congratulations to Colombia. We played good football. I played according to the situation. I gave my best. I could have won the match. We don’t like to lose. We didn’t play after the penalty. That got me thinking. That’s what I saw.’
Scaloni also said, ‘Colombia has great footballers. It is very difficult to play against them. We had a chance to win the match but didn’t do it. We always like to chase the ball. Try to be effective in the last few meters before the goal. I could not do that today. We have to correct those aspects.’
