Ecuador achieved a historic victory over Colombia 1-0

TO the Ecuadorian team A goal from striker Enner Valencia was enough to surprise Colombia 1-0 and thus take third place in the South American qualifier for the 2026 World Cup by storm, placing itself only behind the current world champion Argentina and of Uruguay.

A victory with historical overtones, Well, more than half a century must have passed before the Ecuadorian team could defeat the coffee growers in a foreign yard.achieving a victory before more than 40 thousand people gathered at the Metropolitan stadium in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla, Colombia.

The last time Ecuador managed to beat Colombia as a visitor on July 20, 1965. when they won 1-0 at the Romelio Martínez Stadium with a goal from Washington Muñoz and that now takes on tremendous importance because the Ecuadorian team was placed above the Colombians in the World Cup qualifiers.

three points that undoubtedly manage to round off a splendid November for Ecuadorians with victories over Bolivia and now with Colombia, in what seems to be the debacle for the team led by Néstor Lorenzo with two consecutive defeats against Uruguay and now against the Ecuadorians.

The match

The reality is that the result It was written from the 7th minute when Enner Valencia took advantage of his teammates recovering a ball in the wrong start of midfielder Richard Ríos that Valencia took to get rid of the marking of several rivals to reach the area and beat goalkeeper Camilo Vargas with a cross shot that the Atlas de México goalkeeper could not save.

The visitors maintained that offensive force and caused the Colombians to not have the ball and above all a lot of work to take off the pressure from the visitors, but that pace could only hold out for half an hour, since then the squad led by Sebastián Beccacece began to feel the pressure of the local team.

It was when they were able to reach the Ecuadorian goal, but Rodríguez’s passes were wasted by his teammates, that when the play warranted coldness they ended up emptying their shots Hernán Galíndez’s goal is more than enough, which was another of the factors of this historic victory.

To make matters worse, the visiting team was left with ten men in the 34th minute. due to the expulsion of Hincapié when he knocked down Córdoba on the edge of the area and where James Rodríguez almost scored a goal, but goalkeeper Hernán Galíndez managed to stop a great effort.

Colombia continued to be under pressure with its great roster such as Luis Díaz who crashed a ball into a post or John Córdoba’s one-on-one that the Ecuadorian goalkeeper managed to contain and keep the locals at bay.

For the second half Ecuador made key changes with the entry of Félix Torres for Pedro Vite and Carlos Gruezo for Enner Valencia, With which they gained offensive strength and control of the Colombian attacks, which still had three clear goalscoring with a shot from James, another one-on-one from Arias and a shot from Jader Durán that gave the player the hero level. goalkeeper Galindez.

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