Peru vs Colombia Copa America 2021 Third Place Match: (July 9ty)

Yeah, Cuadrado only has 9 gols for Colombia while Diaz just got to 5.

I'll never forget how much pace, intensity, and trickery Cuadrado brought to every match back in 2012. In that sense, I can see the comparison. But Diaz can end up being a lot more than Cuadrado ever was.

 

true, he's better.

 

3rd place medals are lame

 

I have no beef with Cuadrado in the Copa and even in the last qualifiers. Out of the 'old guard', him and Ospina stepped up. With Diaz on the other flank, we will see a much better Cuadrado.

Muriel shows he is that super sub but I'm not convinced that a taquito pass to Diaz makes Muriel the 'difference' and he should be playing over Zapata or Borre. Borja today, was also lacking of any interest. Zapata looked awful today, no fight, but he wasn't given much service. The other super-sub, Cardona, was given the nod instead but was also never involved.

Poorly mismanaged by Rueda though. Defensively, this was the worst back 4 he could have dreamed up. Only Seba Perez, instead of Barrios, would have been worse.

 

either Rueda really thinks his washed up ex Nacional players are that good or he's trying out all the possible formations and lineup's he sees in his head.

idk im still not sold he truly took this tournament that seriously. Probably because its tough for me to say when he only had one official match before this. I guess we'll see

 

One would think we lost the match by all these comments, including my own.....

 

There's a LOT of stuff I don't think Rueda sees.

It was tough luck not having Quintero, James being a wild card, and Cardona coming off injury. I can give some benefit of the doubt to Rueda not having that sorted, and I maintain the slight hope Rueda learned that he needs to have even more options set up for the creative spot in the future. (doubtful, since Campaz was snubbed)

Not having a guy who can actually create from central midfield after Uribe before the qualifiers even started told me a lot about Rueda right off the bat. Perez is a joke. Everybody else is defense first, including Perlaza, who also shouldn't be there.

Reuda is too experienced and too Colombian to have such an imbalanced roster.

 

tbf we should be squishing a team like Peru

 

Welp... We didn't win the Copa (only won 2 matches) and most of the games had some questionable decisions by Rueda... So i understand the unrest of all the forum.

 

And we should have been scoring more goals as a whole. But we didn't.

 

They beat us during round play, played a more balanced, direct game, and were pretty balanced 1st half....but we had Tesillo + Murillo starting, and that's playing 2 men down.

 

the goals were scored today but used a terrible backline today making it way too easy for peru

 

Mina scored a goal for Peru. Idc about them doing this or that as it means nothing. We also just beat them like 3 weeks ago or whatever and with us barely doing much either

 

I think is diferent...cuadrado is a wing with more tactical work and to clear ....diaz received the ball always close to goal to finish...is almost a striker.

Cuadrado actually started his career as right back, play in udinese there and now actually is playing there in juve....you cant expect of him the same creativity of james or goals of diaz.....are differente type pf players...elite player but he isnt a main tool for attack...

 

Yeah I wasn’t saying one was better than the other

just that Díaz is not like Cuadrado

Different players

I loved Cuadrado in that 2014 cycle

amazing player

 

Yeah, tactically, Diaz always plays closer to goal and should naturally score more goals. Their club stats back that up, too.

But the gols he's scoring in this tournament are not a by-product of his being positioned better. The winning gol was an absolute golazo that he scored on pure will, roaming around the box for a window. Cuadrado takes those kinds of shots ALL the time these days and misses.

The breakway gol against Argentina was pure pace and heart. For YEARS, Cuadrado has been the furthest guy up the pitch waiting to lead our counter attack. He gets more breakways than any other Colombian player does but almost never makes any goal-scoring threat.

The Brazil gol, yeah, Cuadrado would almost never be in the area to score that. But, again, Diaz turned it into an absolute golazo.

Not trying to deminish Cuadrado's career for Colombia. He's always been a warrior. But I've never had the hope he'd be the guy to score or even assist when we needed a big play. Diaz was that guy for us this whole tournament.