"Triumph" and "Splendid Victory"
.
This is how the Colombian media titled the 1-0 victory of the local team against Spain, in a friendly played this Friday in London.
Daniel Muñoz
, with a great right volley, scored the only goal of the game.
The Argentine coach
Néstor Lorenzo
got into the hearts of the Colombians.
Since he took office in June 2022, he has had 12 wins and five draws;
that is, he has not lost yet.
And this Friday he had a complex match against Spain
, a team that he had not been able to beat in the previous three matches (1981, 2011 and 2017).
And Colombia played well,
with the imbalance of Luis Díaz
, the Liverpool winger, who was in charge of sending the center in Muñoz's great goal.
Former River Jorge Carrascal
was there from the start and was replaced by
former Banfield James Rodríguez
at halftime.
IMPRESSIVE GOAL FROM COLOMBIA AGAINST SPAIN!!
Lucho Díaz starred in a TOP madness and Daniel Muñoz an unforgettable pirouette for the 1-0 in the friendly.
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— SportsCenter (@SC_ESPN) March 22, 2024
The Spanish team, which had come from six consecutive wins,
was shipwrecked against a Colombia that conceded little
and made the most of one of its few opportunities to beat Álex Remiro.
"The work we are doing was reflected with the victory; we had a great second half. I am very happy for all of us who played. We are a family, we are building something very nice for what is to come
," said Luis Díaz,
the figure of the cast led by Lorenzo
.
And he continued:
"The plan was to look for the game from the first half. We always look for the game to move forward, but they are a great team and it became complicated for us. We had to reverse that in the second half. Personally, I continue to reap things that I have been looking for for a long time: to be a player with great things, since I started my career, representing my team, which is what excites me the most
. "
Colombia's victory places it as one of the great teams in South America.
And the country's press is already starting to get excited about the Copa América that looms on the near horizon.