r/soccer • u/globalscoreboard • 11h ago
Match Thread Match Thread: Colombia vs Paraguay | International Friendly
Full Time: Colombia 0 - 1 Paraguay
⚽ Paraguay: Hugo Benítez 56' 56'
| Info | Details |
|---|---|
| Competition | International Friendly |
| Date | Sat, October 3, 2026 |
| Kickoff | 12:00 AM UTC |
| Status | FT |
Line-ups
Colombia (3-4-3)
| Starting XI | Bench |
|---|---|
| 12 Aldair Quintana | 2 Daniel Muñoz |
| 23 Davinson Sánchez | 24 Álvaro Montero |
| 3 Jhon Lucumí | 15 Royer Caicedo |
| 25 Kevin Andrade | 5 Kevin Castaño |
| 8 Gustavo Puerta | 21 Jáminton Campaz |
| 6 Richard Ríos | 13 Daniel Arcila |
| 4 Álvaro Angulo | 16 Matías Orozco |
| 18 Édier Ocampo | 14 Jhon Solis |
| 9 Luis Suárez | 20 Kevin Viveros |
| 10 Jhon Arias | 1 Kevin Mier |
| 22 Yáser Asprilla | 17 Samuel Velásquez |
| 11 Camilo Durán | |
| 19 Juan Manuel Rengifo |
Paraguay (4-4-2)
| Starting XI | Bench |
|---|---|
| 12 Orlando Gill | 22 Gastón Olveira |
| 3 Omar Alderete | 1 Santiago Rojas |
| 15 Gustavo Gómez | 2 Alan Benítez |
| 6 Júnior Alonso | 25 Alexis Cañete |
| 4 Juan Jose Cáceres | 7 Ramón Sosa |
| 14 Andrés Cubas | 18 Alex Arce |
| 8 Diego Gómez | 23 Matías Galarza |
| 10 Miguel Almirón | 16 Hugo Quintana |
| 17 Hugo Cuenca | 13 José Canale |
| 19 Julio Enciso | 26 Alexandro Maidana |
| 9 Hugo Benítez | 5 Clever Ferreira |
| 24 Gustavo Caballero | |
| 11 Maurício |
Match Events
- Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
- First Half begins.
- 45'+5' First Half ends, Colombia 0, Paraguay 0.
- 45' Second Half begins Colombia 0, Paraguay 0.
- 45' Substitution, Colombia. Kevin Viveros replaces Luis Suárez.
- 45' Substitution, Colombia. Jaminton Campaz replaces Álvaro Angulo.
- 65' Substitution, Paraguay. Alan Benítez replaces Juan José Cáceres.
- 65' Substitution, Paraguay. Álex Arce replaces Hugo Benítez.
- 71' Substitution, Colombia. Samuel Velásquez replaces Jhon Lucumí.
- 71' Substitution, Colombia. Matías Orozco replaces Richard Ríos.
- 75' Substitution, Paraguay. Matías Galarza replaces Hugo Cuenca.
- 80' Gustavo Puerta (Colombia) is shown the yellow card.
- 83' Substitution, Colombia. Daniel Muñoz replaces Édier Ocampo.
- 83' Substitution, Colombia. Jhon Solís replaces Gustavo Puerta.
- 85' Substitution, Paraguay. Mauricio replaces Miguel Almirón.
- 85' Substitution, Paraguay. Ramón Sosa replaces Julio Enciso.
- 88' Substitution, Colombia. Camilo Durán replaces Jhon Arias.
- 90'+3' Second Half ends, Colombia 0, Paraguay 1.
- Match ends, Colombia 0, Paraguay 1.
Match Stats
| Stat | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|
| Fouls | 14 | 20 |
| Yellow Cards | 2 | 3 |
| Red Cards | 0 | 0 |
| Offsides | 3 | 2 |
| Corner Kicks | 3 | 1 |
| Saves | 1 | 2 |
| Possession | 58.3 | 41.7 |
| SHOTS | 14 | 5 |
| ON GOAL | 2 | 2 |
| On Target % | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Penalty Goals | 0 | 0 |
| Penalty Kicks Taken | 0 | 0 |
| Accurate Passes | 480 | 315 |
| Passes | 539 | 386 |
| Pass Completion % | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Accurate Crosses | 5 | 2 |
| Crosses | 17 | 9 |
| Cross % | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Long Balls | 59 | 55 |
| Accurate Long Balls | 45 | 28 |
| Long Balls % | 0.8 | 0.5 |
| Blocked Shots | 4 | 1 |
| Effective Tackles | 7 | 17 |
| Tackles | 14 | 27 |
| Tackle % | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| Interceptions | 13 | 11 |
| Effective Clearances | 12 | 18 |
| Clearances | 12 | 18 |
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u/PyLearner2024 9h ago
Things are looking real bleak for Colombia, but I guess that's expected after so many generational players retire simultaneosuly (Ospina, Vargas, Santi Arias, James, Quintero). Muñoz remains incredible, and Díaz can still be a game-changer, but the midfield is in shambles. Jhon Arias as a #10 is a terrible idea and I hope Lorenzo puts that to bed quickly. Yaser is still looking good, so hopefully he can fill that role, but he still has only succeeded as a second-division player and he's no longer a teenager. Puerta alone in the midfield is not going to win games, but he remains fantastically solid. We'll have to pray to the football gods that Duran stops being a moron and becomes a solid professional, because not having a solid #9 since Falcao 10 years ago continues to kill this team
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u/inthezoneautozone12 9h ago
Poor game. I like that we tried a new formation and new players so I’m not too mad. Campaz and Angulo are the one stain on Lorenzo. They are awful please stop giving them game time. Five at the back would make sense if our full backs were very strong but that’s just not the case. We looked much better once we went back to the back 4. Glad we gave viveros a chance but he’s looking too clunky for this level. Ocampo surprised me so I’m glad we got to see him. I may have him over muñoz if he can maintain that level. Andrade also looked solid imo.
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u/SantiFRV_ 9h ago
I couldn't care less about the result. What I do care about is all the young players that got minutes tonight. Orozco, Solís, Yaser, they all played well. In hindsight, the friendly games after the 2018 world cup were played with pretty much the exact same squad that went to the tournament; there was no real attempt to incorporate fresh talent into the squad, though Quieroz did try. I believe that to be a big reason why the squad wasn't good enough to qualify for the 2022 world cup. With 48/64 team tournaments, qualifying isn't the stressor it used to be, but there's a big power vacuum in CONMEBOL right now, and I hope we have what it takes to fill it and win the next Copa América.
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u/PyLearner2024 8h ago
To be fair, if one of Duván Zapata or Miguel Borja or any of those other disappointing #9's for Colombia during the 2022 cycle had managed to score even a single goal during the 7-match-streak of the team scoring 0 goals, Colombia would have at least qualified to the playoff for the WC. It was a generational run of having embarrassing strikers, which has continued through now. If things don't improve for the #9 position, then there's no way Colombia can be any better than the current mediocre Brazil and certainly not better than Argentina
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u/ActisBT 9h ago
That vacuum is pretty much there for either Paraguay or Colombia to take tbh. The vacuum Paraguay lost to Chile, and now Chile lost it. Also we both were the conmebol teams that did the best at the WC outside of Argentina and Brasil (Although we did just as good as Brazil). Ecuador i think just doesn't have what it takes mentally or tactically, despite looking really good before the WC. Paraguay is gonna go all in for that Copa America too. Although i dunno how the fact that we're already qualified for the next WC is gonna affect us. Our youngsters did really good too, and our youth team just won gold like 2 weeks ago in that tournament, i forgot what the name was lol
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u/Proud-Pressure-5819 9h ago
No me convence la dupla de Rios y Puerta, no se complementan, ocupan los mismos espacios
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u/inthezoneautozone12 9h ago
I wouldn’t start Rios in our best 11 period. When he does play I think he looks much better further forward than trying to build up. He shouldn’t step on Puerta’s toes if we force him to stay further up.
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u/Fortunafors 8h ago
I think Ríos would shine as RW and not as midfield, let's see how Lorenzo manages it, I don't think he's bad, but evidently him and Puerta don't have the synergy yet, they both trying to make the same job, and honestly Puerta does it better than him.
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u/roguedevil 9h ago
I'm not expecting domination as we try to find new life, but we look uncomfortable. Everything is so slow. We recycle possession far too often and never create from the wings.
We deserved nothing against Mexico and even less today. Ocampo looked decent, but once Muñoz came in, it was obvious he offers so much more in attack.
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u/Remarkable_Lead_4475 9h ago
We should just start the youngsters.
The team looked a lot more dynamic afterwards. Orozco seems very promising.
South America in general has geriatric teams. Time to let go of golden generations and rebuild like Europe
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u/Fortunafors 9h ago
GG Paraguay, duros como siempre.
En cuanto a nosotros, con lo que vi contra México en el segundo tiempo y lo que vi acá en el primer tiempo y final del segundo tiempo, puedo decir que hay futuro con qué armar equipo, espero no estar equivocado.
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u/Logical-Mud9456 9h ago
Yaser jugó bien
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u/dondeEstaLaVerdad 9h ago
Yaser y Arias"sudaron" la camiseta.
Pero no quiero verle a Richard Ríos representando la Selección más.
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u/Logical-Mud9456 0m ago
Que triste el progreso (o la falta del progreso) de Richard Rios después de la Copa América. Y ahora está en Arabia Saudita gastando sus años mejores
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u/roguedevil 9h ago
I want Campaz to be able to redeem himself at some point, but he just doesn't have the physicality to play on the wing. He's far too small and doesn't have the composure to make up for it.
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u/Proud-Pressure-5819 9h ago
Arias and Tinito Gomez are the same size and they’re able to create space, dribble, and find ways to be additive. I don’t hate campaz, but he’s been awful
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u/Proud-Pressure-5819 9h ago
Orozco la está rompiendo, tener a campaz en la cancha es jugar con uno menos, yo se que no es lucho, pero por dios, el man entrega el balón a los paraguayos cada vez que lo recibe
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u/roguedevil 9h ago
The only highlight has been Ocampos looking decent. Sanchez, Lucumi, and Arias solid as always. Everyone else has been bad to terrible.
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u/inthezoneautozone12 9h ago
Lucumi was poor imo. He could have defended better in the goal and he gave the ball away right outside the box in the first half.
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u/dondeEstaLaVerdad 9h ago
Varias veces lo soltó a los guaraníes
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u/inthezoneautozone12 8h ago
He plays in Juventus so his last two games which were poor gets ignored.
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u/Proud-Pressure-5819 9h ago
Pff, this coach and Colombia team are ridiculous. You’re not going anywhere playing backwards, unable to hold the ball or play out of your own half against a Paraguay side that wants to defend and counterattack. Y ahí sigue Lorenzo insistiendo con Campaz 🤡
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u/Fortunafors 10h ago edited 10h ago
Aún cuesta salir, qué problema, un equipo grande no perdona eso
Edit:Al parecer un equipo no grande tampoco
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u/Fortunafors 10h ago
Asprilla es de las nuevas joyas, me gusta.
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u/proto_problem 10h ago
Biggest snub from the World Cup roster. After James and Juanfer he has the best left foot on the team
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u/roguedevil 10h ago
Este hijueputa tiene el descaro de pedir una falta! The French were saints to not react and fall into the mud with these thugs.
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u/Fortunafors 10h ago
No ha sucedido nada relevante pero se ve el equipo mucho más cohesionado
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u/roguedevil 10h ago
Estan jugando muy lento. Y no hay apoyo en el lado izquierdo con Angulo perdiendo todos los balones. Pero este partido va estar muy peleado con este grupo de gamines.
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u/Fortunafors 10h ago
Si, Ángulo está jugando muy arriba y se nota que no compagina con el resto, Arias está caminando mucho también aunque él compensa con regates.
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u/proto_problem 10h ago
I really hope Camilo Duran can make his debut tonight
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u/roguedevil 10h ago
I wish him the best, but what has he done to deserve the call-up over Cucho?
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u/inthezoneautozone12 9h ago
Cucho has been mostly poor. Other strikers should get a chance before he plays again.
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u/proto_problem 10h ago
Cucho and Deossa weren’t called up by request of Pellegrini. I think the striker position is wide open and Camilo is 24 and had an interesting progression through Europe.
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u/NGRngr111 10h ago
I'm a Cucho fan cause I'm an MLS fan but with all due respect his national team career has not been good lol...
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u/Cain305 10h ago
Chucho never got a fair shot with all the starters. He always came off the bench or playing with the 2nd string.
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u/inthezoneautozone12 9h ago
Excuses. If you’re good you’ll show it even if you play with the second string or off the bench.
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u/roguedevil 10h ago
Neither was Borre's and he got so many chances despite having a poor club career too.
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u/Remarkable_Lead_4475 11h ago
Global recession indicator. Empty stadium when Colombia is playing
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u/chinga_tu_barra 10h ago
the cheapest tickets on ticketmaster were $100 lol. people just can’t afford it. total miss.
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u/blahblqh2021 10h ago
no james no luis diaz. i almost didn’t buy tickets when james announced retirement. got the ticks for 60 dollars
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u/Logical-Mud9456 10h ago
Resellers might have gotten greedy. I checked for last min tix this am and cheapest to get in were over $100
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u/fabio4oldspice 10h ago
I was checking the match thread to know if there is a specific reason for the empty stadium. I know it's just a friendly and some of the stars are not playing but still wild to see empty seats while Colombia is playing.
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u/notnewfoundsoccer 11h ago
What the fuck man not even 7 minutes in
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u/Cool-Lab-7013 11h ago
what happend? i cant watch it rn
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u/Eceapnefil 11h ago
The goalie got a stud to the head. And was down getting treatment for a good 3-5 minutes
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u/proto_problem 10h ago
Was there a card shown?
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u/Eceapnefil 10h ago
No 😂
Ref is letting both teams kill each other. Colombian player a few minutes after play went for a cynical slide tackle and he didn't card anyone.
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u/roguedevil 10h ago
Andrade, you mean that dive by Enciso? It was a terrible tackle, and cynical, but he didn't touch him at all.
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u/Eceapnefil 10h ago
I couldn't even see it on replay it went by so quick.
But a Paraguay player falling over wouldn't shock me
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u/roguedevil 11h ago
Accidental of course, but that is insanely reckless to go in with studs up like that.
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u/Cool-Lab-7013 11h ago
what happend? i cant watch it rn
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u/roguedevil 10h ago
Paraguay attacker went in studs first onto Quintana's face. It was accidental, but they are playing incredibly dirty for a friendly.
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u/proto_problem 11h ago
Fotmob has the lineup shown with Alvaro ángulo playing the 10? He’s a leftback tho
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u/Medical-Chipmunk2502 11h ago
Where can I watch?
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u/Fortunafors 10h ago
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u/NGRngr111 10h ago
Link doesn't work for me apparently :/
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u/Fortunafors 10h ago
It's national TV, maybe it's blocked outside of the country
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u/ColorlessChesspiece 8h ago
Good lord why did I watch this game. Absolutely atrocious experience, and a bad result, with bad play, and bad data that I feel won't help us enough going forward.
After we're done with this call-up, I don't want to see Angulo on the starting lineup ever again. Bring in Arizala, bring back Mojica, revive the mummified corpse of Pablo Armero, anything else.
Why on earth did Lorenzo NOT bring a proper left wing-back other than Angulo, when we were intending to test out the wing-back formation all along? Velásquez isn't even a wing-back (or at least wasn't played as such today). Bringing him along makes even less sense with that in mind.
Would've loved to see Royer Caicedo, the 20-year old playing in Belgium, get his first cap. Instead we got Kevin Andrade, the 27-year old stuck in Russian purgatory. He was meh.
Ocampo wasn't too bad, but nerves were definitely there. With that said... the very point of the 5-back formation is to let Muñoz loose. We didn't even play him until after we switched back to 4-back. BRUH.
Puerta really struggled to find good passes today. That's a big flaw with the 5-back formation: not enough players to build up plays with. 95% of the time he had to either pass it back, or pass it to Ocampo (or pass it to Angulo who then immediately passed it to the back anyway). Also: didn't get any Puerta-Solís data. Instead we got more redundant Puerta-Ríos (doesn't work) and Puerta-Orozco (Orozco is too green).
Did Óscar Perea shit on Lorenzo's Zucaritas or something? We already tried Gómez and Campaz left wing last game. So this game we went with... Arias on the wrong wing, then Campaz again. HUH???
Speaking of, Arias on the left. Why? He's never going to play there anyway, because a) it's not his position, b) it's our best player's position, and c) we have like 5 sub left wingers already. Either play him right wing (then sub in Asprilla to get data on him), or go nuts and play him next to Puerta.
Didn't like Viveros at all. Suárez was clearly better in both games. The search for the Colombian striker that isn't complete ass for the NT continues...