Colombia took the lead in the match against Uruguay thanks to a genius from Juan Fernando Quintero, who scored 0-1 last Friday, at the Centenario stadium in Montevideo.
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Quintero, who surprised coach Néstor Lorenzo in the start instead of James Rodríguez, opened the scoring with a free kick: when everyone was waiting for a cross, Juanfer put the ball through the post of the goalkeeper Sergio Rochet to cover.
Quintero had never scored a goal in the playoffs. He has four with the National Team, two of them in the World Cup, one in Brazil 2014, against the Ivory Coast, and another in Russia 2018, against Japan, also from a free kick.
The return of Uruguay
Dávinson Sánchez was unlucky to go to the end and ended up scoring in his own goal, it was 1-1.
Then, Rodrigo Aguirre entered the area and took a low shot that beat Vargas and made it 2-1.
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