Five important facts in the preview of the decisive match between Colombia and Venezuela for the qualifiers

This Tuesday, the Colombia team will face the Venezuelan national team this Tuesday on the 18th date of the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The match, which will be played at the Cachamay stadium, will begin at 6:30 p.m. under the referee of Brazilian Wilton Sampaio.

Those led by the coach, Reinaldo Rueda, arrived on Monday night at the concentration hotel in Puerto Ordaz, where they will finalize details regarding the commitment to the 'Vinotinto'. These are five facts that you should take into account in the previous duel.

The 'Cafetero' team is one of the most discreet visitors in the entire South American tie, having won only one game of the eight they played. Interestingly, the only away win for the 'Tricolor' was in Reinaldo Rueda's debut as technical director. On June 3, 2021, Colombia won 3-0 against Peru in Lima with scores from Yerry Mina (40′), Matheus Uribe (49′) and Luis Diaz (55′).

In the rest of the matches he won four draws and three defeats. As visitors, Paraguay, Bolivia and Venezuela are the ones with the worst numbers. This taking into account that these teams no longer have the possibility of qualifying for Qatar 2022.

One of the debts that the 'Tricolor' team has in the qualifying rounds is to beat Venezuela at home. Of the eight matches played against 'Vinotinto' as a visitor, for the World Cup matches, he has barely been able to win one. This happened on December 15, 1996, on the way to the World Cup in France 1998. The 'Tricolor' won 2-0 thanks to the scores of Jorge the 'Patron' Bermudez and the bomber Iván René Valenciano.

However, in the overall history, the 'Tricolor' accumulates five draws and two defeats, thus leaving a score of seven goals in favor and eight against (difference of -1).

The balance of the Caleño coach leading against 'Vinotinto' as a visitor in qualifiers is not positive. He was in charge in three games, each with a different team. On the way to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, during his first cycle with the Colombia national team, he equalized 0-0; and then, in the qualifier for Brazil 2014, he drew 1-1 as the coach of Ecuador; and finally, in charge of the Chilean team, he lost 2-1 on the 4th date of this tournament to Qatar 2022.

Although the first data diminish the chances of Colombia achieving a positive result in Venezuela, there is a particular trend that the national team has in its favor. Of the six occasions that the 'Tricolor' qualified for a World Cup, four of them the quota was won by playing as a visitor, according to statistics from ESPN journalist Luis Arturo Henao.

This trend was framed in the editions of Chile 1962, Germany 1990, United States 1994 and Russia 2018. In the last edition, for example, the team 'Cafetero' was enough to draw 1-1 against Peru in Lima to say 'present' in the World Cup event.

The team led by José Néstor Pekerman is, along with Paraguay, the team with the worst performance playing at home. The 'Vinotinto' has played eight matches under this condition and only garnered 10 points as a result of three wins, a draw and four defeats. However, two of those three home wins were recently won.

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