Matheus Uribe played his first game in this Copa América as a starter, after the Antioquia midfielder was on the bench in all three games and entered the second half to give the Colombian squad a balance in the area played that.
In this duel against Panama, the midfielder started from the beginning, having replaced Jefferson Lerma who could not play due to the accumulation of yellow cards, and was with Richard Ríos in the first line of the midfielders.
How did Matheus Uribe do against Panama?
The midfielder was the player in charge of doing the ‘dirty work’ in the first line of midfield players, where he was in charge of being the axis between the defensive saga and begin the aggressive distribution of the Colombian National Team. A task that turned out to be more cutting than creative, according to him Richard Rios was in charge of being a mixer between the two.
Defensively we can say that it was a fairly acceptable game, where he denied several opportunities to the Panamanian team, whose midfielder, in desperation to be more aggressive, knew how to do the job of cutting and good arrangement.
In numerical terms Matheus Uribe had 83% in passes completed, 7 possession recoveries, and 2 defensive clearances. Acceptable statistics that didn’t remind us of Jefferson Lerma on the field of play.