Uruguay This Thursday he got a point in extremis from Barranquilla afterwards Darwin Nunez La Celeste took advantage of a penalty in the 90th minute to tie the game at 2-2 Colombia on the third day of the World Cup Qualifiers of 2026. In an intense match, played in the areas of the Metropolitan stadium, Uruguay achieved equality in a game in which goalkeeper Camilo Vargas, who was a figure, knocked out Maxi in the Araújo area and was expelled.
The Cafeteros took the lead twice with goals from James Rodríguez and Matheus Uribe, while full-back Mathías Olivera, from Napoli, scored to make it provisional 1-1. With this result, Colombia is temporarily third as it has accumulated five points, while Uruguay is fourth, with four.
Marcelo Bielsa’s men came out to trouble the hosts from the start and applied strong pressure which allowed them to win balls back down the field and create danger. The first approach came in the fourth minute with a shot by attacker Brian Rodríguez that went wide.
The Uruguayan team continued to take advantage of the Colombian defensive disorder and had another chance in a play where Darwin Núñez. The Cafeteros tried to balance the balance and had their first clear shot in the 15th minute by taking advantage of an error in the starting line of the opponents and leaving the ball to be served to Uribe, who fired a shot that hit the right pole of Santiago. Mele’s goal.
Fede Valverde grabbed the goal
However, the Celeste was the one with the best finish with shots from James Rodríguez and Facundo Pellistri saved by Camilo Vargas, who began to be the figure of the match. In that context, Colombia opened the scoring in the 34th minute with a great play combined on the right side of the striker Rafael Santos Borré and the full-back Santiago Arias, who sent a cross controlled by James on his right and finished on his left.
Uruguay did not hesitate and continued to lay siege to the local area pushed from behind by Fede Valverde, who even came close to scoring with a shot that passed close to Vargas’ goal. Bielsa’s team reaped the rewards of that persistence in the first play after the break with a corner kick launched by Nicolás de la Cruz headed by Olivera, who had just entered the field to replace Joaquín Piquerez, to celebrate with the team . charrúa bank.
The match turned into a blow-by-blow affair that was again lopsided in favor of the Colombians in the 51st minute when Luis Díaz recovered the ball across the field and sent a change up front for Rafael Santos Borré, who launched a cross for Uribe who beat Mele’s resistance with a right hand. The hosts had three clear chances to widen the gap with a failed one-on-one by Díaz and two shots by James and Jhon Arias hitting the post.
Uruguay then took a breather and continued to go close, even with a Giorgian de Arrascaeta shot hitting the crossbar. However, the Colombians had already taken control of the match when the game came when Vargas, in a one-on-one fight, collided with Maxi Araújo and the referee whistled the penalty, which Núñez nailed into the top left corner of Álvaro Montero. . On the next match day, scheduled for Tuesday, Uruguay will host Brazil, while Colombia will visit Ecuador.
DATA SHEET
2 – Colombia: Camilo Vargas; Santiago Arias (m.89, Yerson Mosquera), Carlos Cuesta, Davinson Sánchez, Frank Fabra; Wilmar Barrios, Matheus Uribe (m.67, Richard Ríos), James Rodríguez (m.80, Jorge Carrascal); Jhon Arias (m.89, Álvaro Montero), Luis Díaz and Rafael Santos Borré (m.80, Luis Sinisterra)
Instructor: Néstor Lorenzo
2 – Uruguay: Santiago Mele; Naithan Nández (m.60, Giorgian de Arrascaeta), Ronald Araújo, Sebastián Cáceres, Joaquín Piquerez (m.46, Mathías Olivera); Manuel Ugarte (d.71, Maxi Araújo), Federico Valverde, Nicolás de la Cruz; Facundo Pellistri (m.46, Cristian Olivera), Brian Rodríguez (m.71, Matías Vecino) and Darwin Núñez
Coach: Marcelo Bielsa
The objectives: 1-0, James Rodríguez (m. 34); 1-1, Mathias Olivera (d. 46); 2-1, Matheus Uribe (d. 51); 2-2, Darwin Núñez, from a penalty (m. 90)
Referee: The Chilean Piero Maza. Goalkeeper Camilo Vargas was fired
Incidents: The match on the third day of the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup played at the Roberto Meléndez Metropolitan Stadium, in Barranquilla
Source: La Verdad
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