Colombia defeated Venezuela with an own goal in a friendly match played in the United States.

The Colombia national team as adults, without their main football figures, won 1-0 to the under-23 team Venezuela in a friendly match played in the American city of Fort Lauderdale.

In the duel, which was played in the stadium DRV PNK and started half an hour late, was unbalanced by an own goal from the center back Andres Ferro and served Vinotinto to prepare the Pre-Olympic January and the coffee growers to see players facing the 2024 Copa América.

The difference in categories was noticeable from the beginning, when the coffee growers took control and settled on opposite ground.

Thus they began to create clear opportunities to score goals. The first chance came in the 15th minute in a play in which the winger Samuel Velasquez he projected himself and sent a center that headed Carlos Gomez without aim.

Then the player who was close to scoring was the forward Roger Martinezwhen he took a shot in the area that he saved with solvency Javier Otero.

In that context, the ball reached the Venezuelan attackers very little. Matías Lacava, Pablo Chacón and Brayan Alcócer.

However, the team led by the Argentine Ricardo Valiño was close to scoring on a play in which Lacava he was hand in hand with the goalkeeper Álvaro Montero and could not define.

Venezuela’s own goal to put Colombia ahead

Colombia managed to open the scoring at minute 40 in a great play on the left in which the midfielder Sebastian Gomez He sent a center that finished Carlos Gomez and went into the Venezuelan goal when Ferro tried to clear the ball.

In the second half the game was played away from the areas and, although those led by Nestor Lorenzo They maintained dominance, there were few emotions.

In the Venezuelan case, Valiño took the opportunity to film players like the midfielder Nicholas Prophet17 years old, and the steering wheel Daniel de Souza, of 19.

Meanwhile, Colombia’s Argentine strategist gave minutes to players like the youth center back. Devan Tanton, from Fulham; the creative Daniel Catanofrom Millionaires, and the extreme Henry Mosquerafrom Red Bull Bragantino, which can be useful in the Qualifiers and the 2024 Copa América.

The few options that the Colombian team had were created by the winger Ian Carlo Poveda, of Leeds, who assumed the leading role of the team and became an axis through which almost all the attacking plays passed.

Starting lineups

Venezuela:
Javier Otero, Carlos Vivas, Rafael Uzcátegui, Andrés Ferro, Daniel Pereira, Matías Lacava, Jesús Bueno, Yerson Chacón, Renné Rivas, Carlos Faya and Brayan Alcocer.

Colombia:
Roger Martínez, Ian Poveda, David Mackalister Silva, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Jorman Campuzano, Sebastián Gómez, Sebastián Velásquez, Brayan Vera, Andrés Reyes, Juan Mosquera and Álvaro Montero.

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