Ricardo Gareca plays his cards during the match against Vinotinto. The coach makes two changes, both mandatory, compared to the duel with Peru.
The Chilean team plays its cards during the Qualifiers. The national team is going through a difficult period. Almost terminal. He is last in the qualifiers and is obliged to win, and if Peru loses to Argentina, he must escape this position. A victory, added to the draw between Bolivia and Paraguay, would leave Ricardo Gareca’s team four points behind seventh place, the one which leads to the playoffs. Meanwhile, a loss or draw against Venezuela would all but bury All-Team aspirations. There is no margin for error for the home team at the National Stadium.
The coach was satisfied with his team’s performance against Peru in a 0-0 draw last Friday. For this reason, he hardly moves the starting lineup. The two changes he proposes are in fact mandatory. “I don’t know how you saw it, but we, off the field, saw the team do well, what to do in a hot game, in a tough game,” the coach said after parity.
Winger Felipe Loyola leaves the eleven, who received a yellow card in Lima and was suspended due to his accumulation. On the other hand, Diego Valdés, who trained as a starter until Monday morning, was injured during one of the last training sessions and was excluded. Fabián Hormazábal, from the U, and Lucas Cepeda, from Colo Colo, enter in their place. The loss of the Independiente winger led Tigre to urgently call up Mauricio Isla, who will be his replacement this evening.
La Roja thus receives Venezuela with Brayan Cortes; Fabián Hormazábal, Guillermo Maripán, Paulo Díaz, Gabriel Suazo; Rodrigo Echeverría, Vicente Pizarro, Arturo Vidal; Alexandre Aravena, Eduardo Vargas and Lucas Cepeda. In the hours leading up to the game, King, who is now the team captain, reflected. “We Chileans are recovering from the blows of nature, we are fighting together for a beautiful country, we are a land at the end of the world, where people know what it is to fight,” begins by saying leaflet.
“I come from this country and I play for this country and its flag. Let’s fill our stadium. let’s fight together. May the anthem of our country be heard so loudly that we awaken all the hearts of millions of Chileans who are not here today,” he added.
They will be on the bench Lawrence Vigouroux, Vicente Reyes, Benjamin Kuscevic, Erick Wiemberg, Mauricio Isla, Francisco Sierralta, Esteban Pavez, Gonzalo Tapia, Felipe Mora, Luciano Cabral and Maximiliano Guerrero.
Source: Latercera
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