great comparison. i'm only nitpicking here, but if Zuniga-Arias is 9 to 7, i think you can be a tad harsher with Cuadrado's rating. the explosiveness that we loved from him in the 2014 WCQs has been well scouted by now but i still think he can improve on drawing defenders to create space for his teammates. Can't really compare Falcao to Falcao: more like Falcao to Bacca/Falcao and that would be a 9 to 6 IMO b/c Bacca has played the majority of games and Falcao has only recently emerged. Despite Bacca's handful of goals and assists, i have been underwhelmed by him as opposed to back in 2012-15, i was very eager to see him get more minutes. yes our midfield has been shaky post 2014 - but he has gone silent in several games. hard to fully evaluate - i get it; otherwise i love this comparison list!
I don't know this Falcao scoring rate for club is crazy and awesome before a WC. Dude is super hungry to pown ass in Russia. No way he is worse club wise. NT wise well again the team isn't giving him many chances so I feel that is harsh. Also don't agree that James isn't as good or better. The rest of the team doesn't work not on him Also in what Galaxy and in which of our infinite universe is Cristian Zapata at any level and at any time better then Mina? I think while healthy starters will be Mina - Davision
It should be pretty much the same list as last time no? Maybe Duvan Zapata and a miraculous recovery by Mina would be the only changes I expect if there are any changes.
He needs to drop Farid Diaz who was injured then and still injured. Also Borja is in awful form he shouldn’t be called. I don’t know about risking Mina. If we can’t stop Peru and Paraguay without him that would be pretty sad. How many goals does Duvan have? Pekerman needs to make a decision if he will play 2 up front or not. I don’t see Duvan+ Falcao working.
i would think so - barring no injuries after this weekend. I have a couple of friends who are die-hard Valencia supporters and they told me good things about Jeison this season. Perhaps he rejoins the team? i wouldn't mind seeing Duvan back in the mix - i really wished he was around for those June friendlies.... Teo doesn't seem to add that spark anymore that made him be Falcao's +1 up front during the 2014 WCQs - i can't imagine he's a better option than Borja, Duvan and any other 2ndary striker we have on the depth chart. the novelty of him being beastmode in home games i think has worn off.... what is the story on Borja these days - doesn't seem like he is digging holes and burying souls in Brazil from what i read/hear....
Duvan+ Falcao working.[/QUOTE] D This season : 2. but he arrived late to sampdoria. good numbers imho ....more than the "crack" silva and other starrs of serie a He is a back up for falcao....as borja was in the match agaisnt ecuador. Muriel, teo, chara are the ones than can play with radamel...
http://caracol.com.co/radio/2017/09/27/deportes/1506518799_724772.html Playing China and South Korea in november friendlies as long as we aren’t in 5th place and have to play the playoffs Kind of annoyed with the Chinese haven’t they canceled like 2 friendlies with us because James/Falcao couldn’t play?
A mi no molestaria que probaran a este pelado en esos juegos de preparacion... http://comutricolor.com/deiver-machado-brilla-con-el-kaa-gent-y-pide-seleccion-colombia/
We should call up all the players who play in the Chinese league for those friendlies. Machado would be another good addition since Diaz seems to be useless latel6y. It just would be weird to see three guys from the Sub 23 playoff starting for the Senior Seleccion so soon.
Not sure if you are joking about the Chinese league guys or not haha but when we play in the US which use to be super often we almost never called a MLS guy. MLS is a much stronger league as well. The China Game we might be forced to play a main roster because they are paying us to see James and Falcao. I would love to use a mixed squad for both and think about our WC22 team. But even a ————— Ospina —————- Arias/A—Sanchez—Murillo — Mecahado ————Cuellar/Lerma——Barrios—— Chara—————————Izquerido ——————Duvan/Córdoba——— 2nd half bring in our main guys -James for Izquerido -Falcao for who ever is our CF -A? I put up for who ever else is a promising RB.our other current options are older - Cardona for Barrios. A more attacking minded team against a weaker opponent should be what we use. - another CB who hasn’t been given a shot like Alexis Perez(was at junior now in Mexico), Cuesta or Aguilar of Nacional Hope our main goal here is to find a DM that can pass and back up options for RB/LB! Another goalie would be super but at this point I say call up Mondragon, Zuniga and Armero
This is what AS Colombia says about the next convocatoria.. https://colombia.as.com/colombia/2017/09/26/futbol/1506436855_612526.html Se acerca la convocatoria para las últimas dos fechas de Eliminatoria, en la que Colombia buscará sellar su paso al Mundial. Pékerman no haría muchos cambios en la convocatoria As.com Actualizado a las: 28 septiembre 2017 12:06h COT Las últimas dos fechas de la Eliminatoria serán clave para definir los clasificados al Mundial de Rusia 2018. Colombia con un triunfo ante Paraguay tendría cupo directo a Rusia 2018. El único clasificado por Sudamérica hasta ahora es Brasil, Uruguay está a un punto. Si la Selección llega a empatar deberá esperar resultados para lograr la clasificación, de lo contrario deberá buscarla en Perú, ante una Selección que podría llegar necesitada de puntos. La convocatoria será revelada este viernes como es costumbre, los referentes del equipo y del fútbol europeo estarán en el grupo de concentrados, la única baja segura es Yerry Mina, quien se sigue recuperando de su lesión del quinto metatarsiano. Las dudas por recuperación de lesión pasan por Stefan Medina, jugador del Monterrey, Mateus Uribe del América de México y Farid Díaz del Olimpia de Paraguay. A continuación AS Colombia te muestra la que sería la convocatoria definitiva. 16 jugadores parecen fijos. Los fijos en la convocatoria 1. David Ospina (Arsenal, Ing) 2. Santiago Arias (PSV Eindhoven, Hol) 3. Leandro Castellanos (Santa Fe, Col) 4. Cristian Zapata (Milan, Ita) 5. Dávinson Sánchez (Tottenham Hotspur, Ing) 6. Óscar Murillo (Pachuca, Mex) 7. Frank Fabra (Boca Juniors, Arg) 8. Carlos Sánchez (Fiorentina, Ita) 9. Wilmar Barrios (Boca Juniors, Arg) 10. Abel Aguilar (Dep. Cali, Col) 11. Juan Guillermo Cuadrado (Juventus, Ita) 12. James Rodríguez (Bayern Múnich, Ale) 13. Giovanni Moreno (Shanghái Shenhua, Chi) 14. Edwin Cardona (Boca Juniors, Arg) 15. Falcao García (Mónaco, Fra) 16. Luis Fernando Muriel (Sevilla, Esp) Los arqueros suplentes En la última convocatoria apareció Leandro Castellanos como la gran novedad. Camilo Vargas también fue sorpresa por su falta de minutos en Nacional, pues Lillo, DT del equipo verde no tiene en cuenta al bogotano. La única gran novedad que podría darse es el llamado de José Fernando Cuadrado, arquero de Once Caldas, pero será difícil, pues Pékerman seguirá apostando por Camilo Vargas para estas dos últimas fechas. 17. Camilo Vargas (Nacional, Col) El reemplazo de Yerry Mina y laterales izquierdos En la pasada convocatoria para enfrentar a Venezuela y Brasil, Pékerman se la jugó con Francisco Meza y William Tesillo como reemplazos de Mina, en esta se la jugaría por los mismos más Stefan Medina. La otra duda es la lateral izquierda, es cierto que Fabra está en su mejor nivel, pero sería bueno tener otra alternativa de llegarse a lesionar el jugador de Boca. 18. Jeison Murillo (Val, Esp), 19. Francisco Meza (Basilea, Sui) 20. William Tesillo (Santa Fe, Col), 21. Stefan Medina (Monterrey, Mex) Las alternativas por la banda izquierda, están entre el ex Millonarios, Deiver Machado, quien se encuentra en el Gent de Bélgica jugando como extremo izquierdo, sin embargo conoce la posición y sería bueno empezar acercar jugadores por esa zona y Johan Mojíca quien se destaca en el Girona de España por sus desbordes y grandes asistencias a los delanteros. El lateral ya hizo parte de la Selección Colombia mayor en los amistosos ante Kuwait y Bahréin. Un volante de marca Aunque podrían entrar en la lista de fijos, Guillermo Celis y Gustavo Cuéllar serán las dos grandes alternativas en la zona de marca para la Seleccion Colombia 22. Guillermo Celis (Vitória Guimarães,Por) 23. Gustavo Cuéllar (Flamengo, Bra) Delanteros En la delantera quedaría tan solo un cupo para completar los cinco delanteros. Carlos Bacca, Duván Zapata, Dayro Moreno y Miguel Borja, entran en la pelea por la convocatoria. Bacca y Zapata tienen ventaja por su momento en Villarreal y Sampdoria, además de ser cercanos al proceso Pékerman. 24. Chará (Junior, Col), 25. Teo (Junior, Col), 26. Carlos Bacca ( Villarreal, Esp)
A player who should be getting called up soon is johan mojica, he has been playing left wing back for Girona and doing really well. I wonder how he'd do at left back, from what I've seen he has the workrate to play there and the tackling/intercepting abilities.
He has been called up in the past pretty sure he scored for us in a friendly. Yea we should call 11 LBs we need more options asap.
He did score in that friendly. He was fast as ******** down the left and he can pass idk dude pekermans scouting is straight basura
He isn't an out and out fullback and defensively he can be very poor. He is great going forward, no one can deny that. Two years ago he had one of the highest ratios of completed crosses in the second division, but you have to take into account that he was playing as a winger then. He reminds me a bit of Fabra, but physically the two can't be compared, Fabra is a scooter while Mojica is a train.
It would make me feel uncomfortable having two offensive minded LB's with defensive liabilities on the same roster. I wish there was a younger version of Farid Diaz out there.
Not playing in Belgium and when does it’s at wingback. Both our promising LBs still haven’t adapted to their leagues yet. Hopefully by the summer they will be ready
Un pequeño homenaje a la @FCFSeleccionCol. Todos #ConLaFeIntacta - @FALCAO, @jamesdrodriguez pic.twitter.com/3BkMNrAvxT— Carlos Botero (@Carlosbotero11) October 9, 2017
List of players we used during the WCQs and the number games they featured: GK David Ospina----------18 CB Cristian Zapata--------10 Oscar Murillo------------9 Jeison Murrilo-----------8 Yerry Mina---------------5 Davinson Sanchez------4 RB/LB Santiago Arias-----------13 Farid Diaz-----------------8 Frank Fabra--------------8 Steffan Medina----------3 Heliburton Palacios------1 Pablo Armero--------------1 Eder Balanta---------------1 DM Carlos Sanchez-----------15 Abel Aguilar----------------8 Dani Torres-----------------7 Wilmar Barrios------------6 Alex Mejia------------------4 Freddy Guarin-------------2 Mateus Uribe--------------2 Sebastian Perez------------2 Gustavo Cuellar------------1 Guillermo Celis------------1 AM Edwin Cardona----------15 Juan Cuadrado-----------15 James Rodriguez--------13 Luis Muriel---------------10 Macnelly Torres----------8 Yimmi Chara--------------4 Marlos Moreno-----------3 Orlando Berrio-----------3 Giovanni Moreno---------2 Jonathan Copete-----------1 Luis Quinones--------------1 FW Carlos Bacca--------------13 Radamel Falcao-----------8 Teo Gutierrez-------------5 Roger Martinez-----------3 Miguel Borja---------------2 Adrian Ramos-------------2 Fabian Castillo----------2 Duvan Zapata-----------2 Jackson Martinez-------1 Felipe Pardo--------------1